Gu Fangzhou

Background

Gu Fangzhou was born on ne 26, 1926 Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. He was the son of Guoguang Gu and Zhou Yaoqing Fangzhou.

Education

Gu Fangzhou matriculated at Peking University for a MBBS degree in 1944. He went to the Soviet Union to study virology from 1951 to 1955. He was engaged in poliovirus from 1957.

Career

Gu Fangzhou conducted the trials and production of the polio vaccine, especially "sugar cube". He succeeded in developing first domestic inactivated polio vaccine in 1960, and trivalent oral polio vaccine later.

Gu Fangzhou served as president of Peking Union Medical College from 1984 to 1993. He was also the first president of the Chinese Society for Immunology.

On 2 January 2019, Gu died in Beijing, at the age of 92.

Connections

Father:

Guoguang Gu

Mother:

Zhou Yaoqing Fangzhou

Spouse:

Li Yiwan

(m. August 8, 1951)

child:

Gu Xiaomang Fangzhou

child:

Gu Lienan Fangzhou

child:

Gu Liedong Fangzhou