Tian Bo

Tian Bo (Chinese: 田波; 25 December 1931 – 15 December 2019) was a Chinese virologist and professor at the School of Life Sciences, Wuhan University.

Tian Bo
Born(1931-12-25)December 25, 1931
Huantai County, Shandong, China
DiedDecember 15, 2019(2019-12-15) (aged 87)
Beijing, China
Alma materBeijing Agricultural University
Scientific career
FieldsVirology
InstitutionsWuhan University
Chinese name
Chinese田波
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tian.

Biography

Tian was born in Huantai County, Shandong, Republic of China on December 25, 1931. In 1950 he entered Beijing Agricultural University, majoring in plant protection, where he graduated in 1954.

After university, he was assigned to the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he worked as a researcher, associate professor, full professor, and doctoral supervisor.[1] He was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide (1981), University of Düsseldorf (1986), University of Maryland, College Park (1990), University of Wisconsin System (1990), and Scottish Crop Research Institute (1993). He was a member of the 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He died of an illness in Beijing on December 15, 2019, aged 87.[2]

Contributions

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Tian Bo clarified the role of virus and high temperature in the degradation of potato flower and leaf types, and worked out the technical scheme of virus-free potato seed production by virus-free shoot tip detoxification. In the 1980s, he began to study subviruses, first used Ribonucleic acid (RNA) to control the virus diseases caused by cucumber mosaic virus in the world, and obtained potato strains with high resistance to viroids. In the 1990s, he transferred to the study of medical virus, involving hepatitis B virus, HIV, SARS coronavirus, etc. for the first time, he found the complex of heat shock protein gp96 and viral antigen peptide in liver cancer tissue caused by hepatitis B virus, which provided a new strategy for the development of therapeutic drugs for chronic hepatitis B and liver cancer.[3]

Honours and awards

References
  1. Peng Yingyi (彭莹羿) (15 December 2019). 病毒学家田波院士逝世. ifeng.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  2. Lu Shumin (卢书敏) (16 December 2019). 田波院士逝世，享年88岁. china.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  3. Zhang Kaixin (张楷欣) (16 December 2019). 中国病毒学先驱之一、中科院院士田波逝世. Sohu (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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