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Yan Jin, Professor, Chairman of Chinese Society of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and Chairman of Chinese Society of Oral Biomedicine. Prof. Yan Jin established the Center for Tissue Engineering of Fourth Military Medical University in 2000, and he has been serving as the director since then. In 2015, he was awarded as the “Top Ten Newsmakers of Science” in China.
Prof. Yan Jin has first launched clinical trials on regeneration of dental pulp and periodontium in the world, and he has accomplished the intact regeneration of pulp tissue, establishing a revolutionary approach to dental pulp diseases. Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to a tooth during childhood. When that trauma affects an immature permanent tooth, it can hinder blood supply and root development, resulting in what is essentially a "dead" tooth. Until now, the standard of care has entailed a procedure called apexification that encourages further root development, but it does not replace the lost tissue from the injury and, even in a best-case scenario, causes root development to proceed abnormally. New results of a clinical trial, jointly led by Yan Jin and his co-workers in Xi'an, China, suggest that there is a more promising path for children with these types of injuries: Using stem cells extracted from the patient's baby teeth. The work was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Prof. Jin has long been engaged in scientific researches on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Prof. Jin and his collaborators have successfully produced the tissue engineering skin, which is the first CFDA-approved tissue engineering product in China. His group is also the first in the world to develop a biotechnological product of cornea, which has been reported by Nature and recognized as the representative of life science in the “Top Five Scientific Revolutions of China” by BBC. Along with, Prof. Jin is the laureate of National Distinguished Young Scientists Grant of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2007), and the Chief Scientist of National Basic Research Program of China (2011). He is currently presiding over the Key Project on Tissue Engineering Organs granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016). He has published over 177 papers in SCI journals, such as Sci Translation Med, Cell Metabolism, Bone Res, Theranostics, Cell Death and Differentiation, Stem Cells, and Biomaterials.Prof. Jin currently serves as a reviewer of Theranostics, Biomaternials, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, Journal of Cellular Physiology, etc.