Shu-Sen Zheng, professor of surgery and president of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, was born in Zhejiang Province, China in January 1950. He finished his undergraduate study at the Department of Medicine, Zhejiang Medical University, Hangzhou in 1973 and obtained a master degree in 1986. He received a doctoral degree at the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu in 1989. Subsequently, he pursued his 2-year post-doctoral study at the Department of Surgery, the Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. He became a doctoral tutor in 1998 and was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2001. Professor Zheng has contributed greatly to the progress of general surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine since his return from Hong Kong in 1992. He initiated the training program for organ transplantation at the hospital the same year and carried out orthotopic liver transplantation in 1993, combined pancreas-kidney trans-plantation in 1994, combined liver-kidney transplantation in 1999, and living-related liver transplantation in 2001. To the present, a total of 1063 patients have undergone liver transplantation successfully at his hospital with a 1-year survival rate of 95.2% for patients with end-stage liver diseases. Prof. Zheng performed the combined pancreas-kidney transplantation in 1994 and the combined liver-kidney transplantation in 1999, and 2 recipients holds the longest post combined pancreas-kidney transplantation survival record in Asia (17 years) and the longest post combined liver-kidney transplantation survival record in the mainland of China (12 years).

Professor Zheng is active in basic and clinical research, especially in immunology of organ transplantation, graft injury and preservation. At present, he is responsible for two national projects and eight provincial projects in his specialties. He is a winner of two national science awards and five provincial prizes for science and technology advancement. As a tutor of post doctors, doctors, and postgraduates, he published over 400 papers in core medical journals national or international and several monographs such as Liver Transplantation, Pancreas Transplantation, Management in Peri-operative Period of Liver Transplantation, etc. He holds many governmental or organizational positions, including Chairman of the Chinese Medical Association of Organ Transplant, member of the Life Science Committee, Ministry of Education and director of Key Laboratory of Multi-Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Health, China, and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.