Wang Zhenyi (Chinese: 王振义; pinyin: Wáng Zhènyì; born November 30, 1924), also known as Zhen-yi Wang, is a Chinese pathophysiologist and hematologist who is a professor emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).
He is most well known for discovering the cure for acute promyelocytic leukemia while working with Laurent Degos in France, using tretinoin on a trial of 24 patients at Ruijin Hospital in 1986.
[1] Wang was born in November 1924 in Shanghai, with his ancestral hometown in Yixing, Jiangsu Province.
From 1982 to 1984, Wang was the director of the Division of Basic Medicine of Shanghai Second Medical University.
Wang's research has led to the improved survival of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML).