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    Sep 01, 2022 3 minutes

    2022 FUTURE SCIENCE PRIZE WINNER

    Li Wenhui, a professor at Tsinghua University, won the 2022 Future Science Prize in life sciences for discovering the hepatitis B and D virus receptor, a liver protein called sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide. The discovery can help develop more effective drugs to treat the diseases.

    Born in Gansu Province in 1971, Li obtained his Ph.D. at Peking Union Medical College and is currently also active as a researcher with the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing. In 2020, he won the Baruch S. Blumberg Prize, the Hepatitis B

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