吴旻2016年17期

1925.12.16～

细胞遗传学家.江苏常州人.1950年毕业于同济大学医学院.1961年获前苏联医学科学博士学位.北京协和医科大学、中国医学科学院肿瘤研究所教授、分子肿瘤学国家重点实验室主任.1958年～1961年在苏联期间开创了该国人体正常和肿瘤细胞的现代遗传学研究.1961年回国后建立了我国人体和常用实验动物的细胞遗传学研究方法和基本数据,为在我国开展细胞遗传学研究奠定了基础；1974年开始研究我国北方食管癌的遗传易感性；提出通过遗传流行学调查,化学预防和基因治疗等进行恶性肿瘤预防和治疗的策略.

1980年当选为中国科学院院士（学部委员）.

Born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Graduated from the Medical Collage, Tongji University in 1950. Reciived D.Med.Sc. in Moscow in 1961. Professor, Cancer Institute, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, director, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, and deputy director, Division of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science.

Wu carried out research on cancer cytogeics in Moscow from 1958 to 1961 when Lysenkoi was still prevailing in the Soviet Union and prevented Soviet scientists from exploring this important area. After returning to Beijing in 1961, he established a series of methods and standards to study chromosomes of human and experimental animals. He initiated and promoted basic research and pracitical use of cytogeics in China. Sinci 1974, he has studied mainly geic susceptibility to esophageal cancer among inhabitants in its high-risk areas and developed a strategy for mass prevention and treatment through geic epidemiologic survey, chemoprevention, gene therapy, etc..

He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.