Chen Chien-jen is a leading figure in the field of public health. The blackfoot disease that plagued Taiwan for a long time was led by him to spend 10 years in the research of arsenic poisoning, and estimated the tolerable limit of arsenic concentration in drinking water. After Chen Chien-jen put forward this standard, it was immediately recognized by the world Adopted by the World Health Organization and the United States.

(File photo, photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] Chen Chien-jen was invited to serve as a cabinet minister, but the Blue Camp has been smearing his academic achievements recently. Wu Mingxian, director of National Taiwan University Hospital, said that Chen Chien-jen is not only the light of Taiwan, but also the light of the world. It is a pity that politicians only see colors, With only politics in his head, "Taiwan will not progress in this way"!

Yang Huaiyi, an associate researcher at the Genome Center of the Academia Sinica, also pointed out that Chen's policies can be judged by the public, but his academic achievements cannot be discredited.

The number of papers cited ranks first in Taiwan's medicine

Chen Jianren is not only an academician of the Academia Sinica, but also a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Huang Jinxing, vice president of the Academia Sinica, said that the number of citations of Chen Jianren's papers worldwide ranks first in Taiwan's medical field, and he is saddened to insult this scholar who has made many contributions to mankind.

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WHO adopts arsenic standard in drinking water

Wu Mingxian emphasized that Chen Jianren has made three major contributions to global medicine and public health. The first is that blackfoot disease broke out in Taiwan in the early years. At that time, the global scientific community could not find the cause of blackfoot disease. Chen Jianren led a delegation to investigate the groundwater and found the content of heavy metal "arsenic" in the groundwater. It is the key factor of blackfoot disease, and many diseases are also found to be related to arsenic poisoning. The World Health Organization (WHO) immediately adopted the safety standard of arsenic content in drinking water.

In addition, Chen Jianren has also made considerable contributions to molecular epidemiology, preventing diseases through genetic analysis of genes and virus hosts.

Wu Mingxian pointed out that after the hepatitis B vaccine was invented, many people who had not been vaccinated had hepatitis B virus. How to accurately identify potential patients and administer the drug was a problem. The higher the risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer, etc., this finding has also been written into textbooks around the world.

Liver B research written into global textbooks

Yang Huaiyi added that thanks to Chen Jianren's research, through screening to identify potential high-risk patients and administering the drug, according to the statistics of global scholars, the incidence of end-stage liver disease has been reduced by 75%, and medical expenses have been greatly reduced.

His research has benefited people regardless of nationality or race.

Sterilization method proposed to prevent gastric cancer

Chen Jianren’s contributions in the field of cancer epidemiology are also world-class. Wu Mingxian said that pylori is the main cause of gastric cancer, but there was no international guidance on how to sterilize and prevent gastric cancer. Promote gastric cancer screening and greatly reduce the incidence of gastric cancer.