Return to China of cancer researcher Wang Qianben reunites esteemed scientific family
Famous TCM researcher Wang Qi has seen his sons Qianfei and Qianben return from the US to lead institutes in China
In the 1970s, Wang Qi bestowed upon his newborn sons names laden with ambition – Wang Qianfei (“to fly forward”) and Wang Qianben (“to run forward”).
Now, both have returned home from the United States as distinguished scientists to lead major national research institutes in China, after studying cutting-edge medicine at top American institutions including Johns Hopkins, Duke and Harvard universities.
Their return to Beijing reunites Qianfei and Qianben with their father, himself an esteemed academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, to embody a unique dedication to both traditional Chinese wisdom and modern global science.
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Elder brother Wang Qianfei obtained a doctoral degree in cell and molecular medicine from Johns Hopkins University. He returned to China in 2009 and serves as deputy director of the Beijing Institute of Genomics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.