English news updates from Shanghai hospitals, prepared for international patients.
On Oct. 10, 2026 (Beijing time), at the 2026 World Congress of Cardiology held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the World Heart Federation announced the results of its new presidential election. Ge Junbo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Department of Cardiology at Zhongshan Hospital,…
Read the full report →The cardiac surgery team at Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University has successfully performed the country's first minimally invasive autologous valve transplantation (Ross procedure) through a small upper sternum incision. The 34-year-old patient, Ms. Zhang, was diagnosed with congenital bicuspid aortic valve, severe aortic stenosis with moderate regurgitation, and dilation of the…
Read the full report →On Sept. 19, the 2026 World Chinese Physician Annual Conference was held in Qingdao, where the ninth World Outstanding Chinese Physician Fok Ying Tung Award was presented at the opening ceremony. Professor Gu Jianying, Party Secretary of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, received the honor. Established by the council of the…
Read the full report →On Sept. 9, as the 42nd Teachers' Day approached, Fudan University held its 2026 Teachers' Day-themed event, at which Qian Juying, vice president of Zhongshan Hospital and deputy director of the Department of Cardiology, was awarded the honorary title of Fudan University's 2026 Zhong Yang-Style Good Teacher. Qian has devoted…
Read the full report →The Shanghai Municipal Medical Workers' Union named 30 individuals as 2026 Shanghai Medical Craftsmen, seven of whom come from hospitals affiliated with Fudan University's Shanghai Medical College. Among them is Gao Qiang, director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Oncology and Liver Transplantation Surgery and assistant to the president at Zhongshan…
Read the full report →Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University has released the six-month follow-up results for its first Parkinson's disease patient to receive NCR201 stem cell transplantation, showing marked improvement in both motor function and quality of life, with no serious adverse reactions. The patient, Ms. Zhang, underwent the NCR201 stem cell transplant at Zhongshan…
Read the full report →Medical aid teams to Xizang from Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University and Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, working together with the expert team at Shigatse People's Hospital, have successfully treated a Tibetan patient with achalasia. The patient developed difficulty swallowing six months ago that gradually…
Read the full report →The national science and technology awards were announced on July 8, 2026. Guided and joined by Academician Ge Junbo, the project titled Creation and Application of a Key Technology System for the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Failure, led by researcher Sun Aijun of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, won…
Read the full report →At the 2026 Shanghai Digestive Endoscopy Academic Conference, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University released the Zhongshan Protocol for endoscopy-laparoscopy combined surgery (ELCS), completely overturning the established dual-endoscope model in which laparoscopy leads and endoscopy assists, and for the first time worldwide placing endoscopy in the dominant role. Taking the duodenum, which…
Read the full report →The list of Shanghai health system model worker and craftsman innovation studios has been released. Following grassroots recommendation and expert review, the studio led by Professor Gu Yuxiang of Huashan Hospital was successfully selected. The studio is headed by Gu Yuxiang, first completer of the first prize of the Shanghai…
Read the full report →On the morning of Sept. 21, the 2026 Shanghai Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month-themed event was held at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. Guided by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, the event was hosted by the Shanghai Action Office for the Prevention and Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly and organized…
Read the full report →The 2025 Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award ceremony was held on Aug. 12. The project Research, Development and Application of a Multimodal Diagnosis and Treatment System for Moyamoya Disease by the neurosurgery team of Professor Gu Yuxiang at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University won the first prize. The project Establishment…
Read the full report →At the medical sub-forum of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), HS-MIND and the full-course follow-up system for allergic and immune diseases, both led by Huashan Hospital, were selected into the white paper 2026 AI Plus Health: Shanghai Practice. In the same year, at the second MWCapital Awards ceremony…
Read the full report →On July 13, the first prescription for the implantable brain-computer interface hand motor function compensation system (NEO) was issued in Shanghai following its market approval, and the world's first implantation surgery was completed at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. Intraoperative tests showed that the epidural electroencephalography signals collected by the system…
Read the full report →Huashan Hospital, Fudan University announced that on July 13, the first prescription for the implantable brain-computer interface hand motor function compensation system (NEO) was written in Shanghai following its market approval, and the world's first implantation was completed at the hospital. The world's first invasive brain-computer interface medical device was…
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