Liu Changxiao


Liu Changxiao was a Chinese pharmacologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Liu was born into a poor peasant family in Yangtang Township, Yongxing County, Hunan, on 15 May 1942. In 1961, he was accepted to Beijing Medical College, where he majored in the Department of Pharmacy.
After university in 1965, Liu became pharmacology team leader of the Beijing Pharmaceutical Industry Research Institute, and served until December 1969, when he was transferred as the similar position to Hunan Pharmaceutical Industry Research Institute. In March 1982, he worked successively at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, and Tianjin Institute of Materia Medica.
On 25 July 2024, Liu died in Beijing, at the age of 82.

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