| name = Li Lanjuan

| native_name = {{nobold|李兰娟}}

| native_name_lang = zh-hans

| image = 李兰娟院士.jpg

| caption = Li in 2006

| office = Director-general of the Health Department of Zhejiang Province<!-- 浙江省卫生厅厅长 -->

| term_start = March 1998

| term_end = March 2008

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1947|09|13}}

| birth_place = [[Shaoxing]], [[Zhejiang]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]]

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| occupation = [[epidemiologistEpidemiologist]], [[hepatologist]]

| party = [[Chinese Communist Party of China]]

| alma_mater = [[Zhejiang Medical University]]

| spouse = {{ill|[[Zheng Shusen|zh|郑树森 (医学家)}}]]

| children = 1 son

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| module = {{Infobox scientist| child=yes

| fields = [[Epidemiology]]
| workplaces = First Affiliated Hospital of [[Zhejiang University]]

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| s = {{linktext|李|兰|娟}}

| t = {{linktext|李|蘭|娟}}

| p = Lǐ Lánjuān

'''Li Lanjuan''' ({{zh|s=李兰娟|t=李蘭娟<!-- see MOS:ZH -->}}; born 13 September 1947), also romanized as '''Lan-Juan Li''', is a [[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[epidemiologist]] and [[hepatologist]]. She is a professor at [[Zhejiang University School of Medicine]], an academician of the [[Chinese Academy of Engineering]], and serves as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. She developed Li-NBAL, an artificial [[liver support system]] that is widely used to sustain the lives of people suffering from [[acute liver failure]], and won multiple national awards for her roles in combatting the [[SARS]], [[H1N1]], and [[H7N9]] epidemics.

Li was born on 13 September 1947<ref name=":0" /> into a poor peasant family in [[Shaoxing]], [[Zhejiang]]. She excelled in her studies and tested into [[Hangzhou High School]], a provincial key school.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://news.sina.com.cn/c/2020-01-31/doc-iimxyqvy9372908.shtml|script-title=zh:这位中国感染病学科唯一女院士 率先提出武汉封城|date=31 January 2020|work=Sina News|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref>

She was appointed Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University in October 1993, a position she held for three years. In November 1996 she became deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of [[Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Health]], and was promoted to director six years later. She also served as Director of the Department of Health of the Zhejiang Provincial Government from 1998 to 2008.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://ysg.ckcest.cn/ysgDetails/baseInfo/717/grxx_jbxx.html|script-title=zh:李兰娟|website=Chinese Academy of Engineering|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>

During the [[2003 SARS outbreak]], Li led the disease prevention effort in Zhejiang and controlled the disease's spread in the province.<ref name=":2">{{cite news|author1=Fang Kun ({{lang|zh|方堃}})|url=http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/01-12/8422134.shtml |script-title=zh:李兰娟院士团队荣获2017年度国家科技进步特等奖 |work=China News |date=12 January 2018 |accessdateaccess-date=22 January 2020 |language=zh}}</ref> During the 2013 [[avian flu]] outbreak in the [[Yangtze Delta]], Li's team isolated the [[H7N9]] strain as the pathogen and proved the strain originated from live poultry markets. Her research prompted the government to close all live poultry markets, preventing the spread of the disease to the rest of China.<ref name=":2" /> For her contributions, she was given a special prize of the [[State Science and Technology Progress Award]] in 2017.<ref name=":2" />

===SARSCOVID-COV-219===

During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Li was one of the firstresearchers towho proposeproposed theto [[2020 Hubei lockdowns|lockdown]] of the center [[Wuhan]] (known as Category A prevention and control measures);. herThe lockdown proposal was adopted by the Chinese government, and the [[Wuhan lockdown]] was implemented at 2pm on 23 January 2020 (before the 2020 [[Chinese New Year's Eve]]).<ref>{{cite newspapernews | url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3078189/build-coronavirus-lockdown-inside-chinas-decision-close-wuhan | title=Build-up to coronavirus lockdown: inside China’sChina's decision to close Wuhan | first=Echo | last=Xie | date=2 April 2020 | accessdateaccess-date=22 April 2020 | newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> On 1 February, she left for Wuhan with a team of medical workers from [[Hangzhou]] to help combat the epidemic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://paper.cnwomen.com.cn/content/2020-02/02/066822.html?sh=top|script-title=zh:李兰娟乔杰两位女院士带队出发驰援武汉|date=2 February 2020|website=China Women's News|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_5721590|script-title=zh:李兰娟院士带队驰援武汉：为抢救危重症病人，没考虑何时回来|date=1 February 2020|website=The Paper|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref> On 20 April 2020, Stephen Chen from the ''[[South China Morning Post]]'' reported on research by Li and her team at Zhejiang University, identifying over 30 strains of the [[SARS-COVCoV-2]] virus, and that some of more aggressive strains generated 270 times as much [[viral load]] as the mildest versions;. theyThey discovered that the aggressive strains were linked to outbreaks in Europe and in the state of New York, whereas the less aggressive strains were found in the states of Washington and California.<ref>{{cite newspapernews | url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3080771/coronavirus-mutations-affect-deadliness-strains-chinese-study | title=Coronavirus’sCoronavirus's ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated, and mutations affect deadliness of strains, Chinese study finds | first=Stephen | last=Chen | newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] | date=20 April 2020 | accessdateaccess-date=22 April 2020}}</ref>

* 1998 [[State Science and Technology Progress Award]] (Second Class), for research on artificial liver support system<ref name="awards">{{Cite web|url=http://ysg.ckcest.cn/ysgDetails/achievementStyle/717/cjgx_kjjx.html|script-title=zh:科技奖项|website=Chinese Academy of Engineering|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref>

Li is married to {{ill|[[Zheng Shusen|zh|郑树森 (医学家)}}]], a liver transplant expert and also an academician of the [[Chinese Academy of Engineering]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Zhang Le ({{lang|zh|张乐}})|url=http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2012/5/264688.shtm |script-title=zh:郑树森李兰娟院士夫妇发起成立树兰基金 |work=sciencenet.cn |date=26 May 2012 |accessdateaccess-date=22 January 2020 |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=Zhang Le ({{lang|zh|张乐}})|author2=Wei Hui ({{lang|zh|韦慧}})|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-05/23/c_1115383737.htm |script-title=zh:李兰娟院士伉俪：无数次的风雨同舟才能相濡以沫 |work=Xinhua |date=23 May 2015 |accessdateaccess-date=22 January 2020 |language=zh}}</ref> The coupleThey have a son named Zheng Jie ({{lang|zh|郑杰}}).<ref>{{cite news|author=Zhang Zeqian ({{lang|zh|张泽茜}})|url=http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2020-02-02/doc-iimxxste8299337.shtml |script-title=zh:儿子眼里的李兰娟院士：她一直都没有抛弃自己医生的身份 |work=sina |date=2 February 2020 |accessdateaccess-date=3 February 2020}}</ref>

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