Li Lianda (; 24 July 1934 – 18 October 2018) was a Chinese

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and

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with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. He was an academician of the

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and served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy of

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Biography

Li was born on 24 July 1934 in

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

, China. After graduating from

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in 1956, he worked at Xiyuan Hospital, which is affiliated with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS), and practiced as a

for 18 years. In 1974, Li began researching on the

pharmacology Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action ...

. He later served as Director of Basic Medical Research at Xiyuan Hospital, and chief scientist at the CACMS. His research on the scientific basis of the traditional Chinese medical concept of

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won the National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Class. He also pioneered a new procedure to treat

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using a combination of Chinese medicine and

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, which won the China Medical Society Science and Technology Award, First Class. Li was elected an academician of the

in 2003. From 2004 to 2009, he served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy of

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. On 18 October 2018, Li died in Beijing at the age of 84.

Controversies

In 2008, Li was implicated in an academic scandal at Zhejiang University. A

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at the School of Pharmacy, He Haibo (), was found to have published 14 articles in international journals that used falsified or plagiarized data, and Li was listed as a co-author. He Haibo admitted wrongdoing and said that he had submitted the articles using Li's name without his permission. An investigation by the university cleared Li of wrongdoing, and He Haibo, by then an associate professor, was fired. Li took personal responsibility for his lax supervision of He, although he said that his busy schedule which required him to spend most of his time in Beijing and his lack of English proficiency impeded his ability to scrutinize He's articles that were written in English. In 2009, Li was involved in a dispute with the Chinese pharmaceutical company

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when he claimed that a key product made by Tasly was unsafe. Tasly sued Li in 2013, alleging that Li's claim was baseless and was motivated by his financial and employment relations with Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, a direct competitor of Tasly. In September 2014, the

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High People's Court ruled in favour of Tasly and ordered Li to issue an apology and pay Tasly 300,000 yuan in compensation.

References

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