Zhang Yongzhen
Zhang Yongzhen | |
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张永振 | |
![]() Zhang Yongzhen in Wuhan collecting the GigaScience Prize. | |
Born | 1964 or 1965 (age 58–59)[1] |
Nationality | Chinese |
Occupation | Virologist |
Zhang Yongzhen | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Zhāng Yǒngzhèn |
Zhang Yongzhen (
According to
Zhang was named one of Nature's 10: "ten people who helped shape science in 2020",[3] and was winner of the 2020 ICG-15 GigaScience Prize for Outstanding Data Sharing during the COVID-19 Pandemic.[10] Alongside Edward C. Holmes, he was awarded the 2021 General Symbiont prize as an exemplar in the practice of data sharing at the Research Parasite Awards.[11] He was also one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2020[12] and Straits Times 2020 Asians of the Year.[13]
Education
Zhang studied at South China Agricultural University, Southern Medical University, and Kunming Institute of Zoology.[13]
Career
Zhang is a professor at
His laboratory, a Level 3 biosafety lab,[17] is part of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center.[3]
In 2019, Zhang was given preliminary approval for funding from the
COVID-19 pandemic
On 3 January 2020, Zhang's team received a test tube containing swabs from the initial outbreak of a pneumonia outbreak in
On 11 January, Edward C. Holmes contacted Zhang for permission to publish the virus's genome. Zhang granted permission, and Holmes published the genome on virological.org that day.[1][3] The Chinese government had prohibited labs from publishing information about the new coronavirus, though Zhang later said he did not know about the prohibition.[3] The next day, the Shanghai Health Commission ordered Zhang's laboratory to close temporarily for "rectification".[17] In an interview published by Nature in December 2020, Zhang said officials issued the order to update biosafety protocols.[3] On 24 January the lab was accredited to research the novel coronavirus.[17] Over the next three months the lab tested more than 30,000 viral samples, according to Fan Wu, another researcher involved in sequencing SARS-CoV-2.[1]
On 3 February 2020, Zhang's team's discovery was published in Nature.[17]
Of the early response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Zhang later said, "nobody listened to us, and that’s really tragic".[8]
On Monday, 27 April 2024, Zhang said that he had been evicted from the lab; the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center said that the lab was closed for safety reasons. As a protest, Zhang took up residence on a piece of cardboard outside the front door of the laboratory and remained there despite rain.[18] On May 1, Zhang reported that he had been allowed back into the facility.[19]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Exclusive: Chinese Scientist Who First Sequenced COVID-19 Genome Speaks About Controversies Surrounding His Work". Time. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- S2CID 1198891. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Nature's 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2020". www.nature.com. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Chinese scientist behind Wuhan lockdown gets Nature magazine top 10 accolade". South China Morning Post. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- TheGuardian.com. 26 January 2021.
- ^ Sabeti, Pardis (22 September 2020). "Zhang Yongzhen: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020". Time. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ McKie, Robin (6 December 2020). "The vaccine miracle: how scientists waged the battle against Covid-19". The Observer. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ a b "25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China's Grasp". The New York Times. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Zimmer, Carl (21 March 2022). "'He Goes Where the Fire Is': A Virus Hunter in the Wuhan Market". The New York Times.
- ^ "COVID-19 Data-Sharing Hero Wins GigaScience Prize - GigaBlog". gigasciencejournal.com. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "The Research Symbiont Awards". researchsymbionts.org. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "The 100 Most Influential People of 2020". Time. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ a b "ST Asians of the Year: Top scientist's decision to publish genome map made at some personal risk". The Straits Times. 5 December 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "How a single scientific feat led to the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines". Fortune. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "【武汉肺炎】抢发科研论文引风波 中国科技部此时发声意在何指". Duowei News (in Chinese (China)). 31 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Chinese survey, database on important new viruses 'delayed by red tape'". South China Morning Post. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab". AP News. 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-02.