BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME: Dewen Yan

POSITION TITLE: Director of the Endocrinology Department

EDUCATION/TRAINING

A. Personal statement

Dewen Yan is a Chief Physician, Professor, and Director of the Endocrinology Department at Shenzen Second People’s Hospital. He is a member of the standing committee of the Endocrine and Metabolism Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Vice Chairman of the Endocrinology Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, member of the standing committee of the Diabetes Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, Chairman of the Diabetes Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Medical Association, and Vice Chairman of the Osteoporosis and Bone Mineral Disease Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Medical Association. His primary research interests include diabetic cardiomyopathy and bone metabolic disease, and his work is supported by a range of grants from funding bodies that include the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Shenzhen Science and Technology Commission, with more than ￥2,470,000 being awarded in total. In the past five years, he has published seven SCI papers and 10 Chinese core journal papers as either first author or corresponding author.

B. Positions and honors

Positions

2003-present: Director of the Endocrinology Department, Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital/the First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China.

Honors

China Medical Science Popularization Award of the China Association for the Promotion of International Exchange of Medical and Health Care: 2015, for The Four Books of Diabetes.

C. Representative publications (selected publications from the past five years   5-10篇)

1.Dewen Yan and Youming Zhang (2018). A response letter to allopurinol-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis and association with HLA-B*5801 in white patients. Pharmacogenetics & Genomics, 28(12): 268-269.

2.Heng Cheng, Dewen Yan, Xin Zuo et al. (2018) A retrospective investigation of HLA-B*5801 in hyperuricemia patients in a Han population of China. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, 28(5): 117–124.

3.Xin Zuo, Xueting Liu, Runtian Chen, Huiting Ou, Jiabao Lai, Youming Zhang* and Dewen Yan* (2019) An in-depth analysis of glycosylated haemoglobin level, body mass index and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction inpatients with type 2 diabetes. BMC Endocrine Disorders, 19(1): 88.

D. Research support

Ongoing projects (RMB)

1.National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Programs (grant no. 81670759), 2017-2020, Jianxin Deng and Dewen Yan, ￥580,000.

2.Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, Technical Research Project (grant no. JSGG20160331103247408), 2016-2019, Dewen Yan,￥800,000.

3.Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, Key Research Project (grant no. JCYJ20160331190714896) , 2016-2019, Dewen Yan,￥600,000.

4.Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, Basic Research Project, 2015-2017, Dewen Yan, ￥100,000.