Wang Yiping introduced the laboratory safety regulations in education for freshmen in August 2015. [Image from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS]

Danshen depside salts, an innovative traditional Chinese medicine, has benefited more than 20 million patients who suffer from coronary heart disease and angina in some 5,000 hospitals across the country.

The chief developer of the drug, Wang Yiping, was a researcher and PhD supervisor at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also honored as a pioneer of TCM modernization for his dedication to TCM pharmacological studies.

Wang himself had a 25-year-long struggle with Crohn's, an inflammatory bowel disease, and was found dead in his office on April 11 at the age of 55.

Actually, there are many scientists like Wang, who devoted decades of efforts and their lives to scientific research. They include geophysicist Huang Danian, the chief of China's five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope Nan Rendong, professor Zhong Yang, a sower on Tibet's snow-covered plateau, and agriculturalist Li Baoguo. These scientists, who are unknown to most people, made earthshaking contributions to China’s scientific research development.

Source: CAS