Depei Liu

Depei Liu, the Academician of China Academy of Engineering, Former President of China Academy of Medical Sciences, President of Peking Union Medical College (i.e., China Union Medical University), Vice President of China Academy of Engineering. In 2008, he was elected as Academician of America Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Academician of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and in 2009 elected as Academician of European Academy of Sciences.

He is the member of the Eleventh and Twelfth National People's Congress Standing Committee, the member of State Council Degree Committee and the Vice Chairman of 6th President Committee of China Disabled Federation. He was the lead organizer for the consulting projects and researches on “the Project 8 of National Medium-Term And Long-Term Development Planning of Science and Technology-the Issues on Population Link to Health, Science and Technology”, “the National Prevention and Control Strategy for Severe Infectious Diseases”, “the Biological Security Strategy and its Laws and Regulations of New Period”, and “2010-2020 Development Strategy for Medical and Health Talents”.

He, as the originator of Chinese Scientific Data Sharing in Population And Health Fields, led a research team to establish the Service Platform of National Population and Health Scientific Data Sharing with unremitting efforts of 10 years, which was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance in 2011, opening to the society.