Hu Zhengxiang was born on June 4th in the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896) in Yanqiao Village, Wuxi County. After the founding of New China, Hu Zhengxiang was appointed as the director and professor of pathology department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and was elected as the director of Chinese Medical Association and the chairman of Chinese Pathology Society. 1952, the United States waged a germ war in the war of aggression against Korea. He and other experts went to the northeast to investigate and study, collected and produced a large number of bacterial pathological specimens, and published the investigation report to the world, exposing the crimes of the American invaders. Under his auspices, he has held eight training courses for senior and intermediate pathology teachers, and organized doctors in Beijing to hold 1 pathology seminar every month. At the same time, he was responsible for preparing the first national pathological academic conference of China Pathology Society, exchanging scientific research results, discussing the development direction of the discipline, and founding Chinese Journal of Pathology. He is also the editor-in-chief In order to popularize pathology in China, he collected more than 1000 pathological specimens and thousands of specimen photos accumulated in his years of teaching and clinical practice, and collaborated with professors Qin Guangyu and liuyong to compile and publish a monograph on pathology, all of which were written with domestic pathological data. He has been engaged in pathology teaching and scientific research for more than 40 years and published 74 papers at home and abroad. It has made recognized research results in the pathomorphology of severe anemia, atherosclerosis, viral hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, reticulocyte malignant tumor and other diseases. In the late 1950s, he made an in-depth study on the pathology of infectious hepatitis, put forward the pathological indexes of infectious hepatitis, analyzed the relationship between hepatic insufficiency and portal hypertension, and the causes of death of patients, and made a morphological classification of liver cirrhosis. This scientific research achievement is of great significance to the clinical treatment of infectious hepatitis. In the early 1960s, he observed and analyzed different forms of lymphocytes, and found that malignant lymphoma composed of different forms of lymphocytes had different prognosis. This is of great value to the clinical diagnosis of tumor. After the report was published, medical circles at home and abroad attached great importance to it. 196 1 participated in the 8th International Congress on Oncology held in Moscow, Soviet Union. He attended the China Medical Planning Conference twice and put forward the pathological development plan, which was cordially received by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. 65438-0962, Hu Zhengxiang served as vice president of China Academy of Medical Sciences. 65438-0964 was elected as the fourth member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. 1968165438+1October 12 died in Beijing at the age of 72.