AWARDEE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND MATERIA MEDICA PRIZE

YU MENGSUN

Academician Yu Mengsun,  was born in Shanghai in March of 1936. At the age of 15, he attended a military college of cadre and studied in the Medical College of Nanking University. He was later on transferred to the Air Force Military Medical School. After his graduation in 1954, he participated in the No. 2155 Air Force Unit as an assistant surgeon. Since 1955, he has been working in the Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine. During this period he successively assumed the positions of surgeon, research professor, senior engineer, chief engineer and director of biomedical engineering department, etc. In 1999  Yu Mengsun was elected the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Academician Yu Mengsun is engaged in aviation biomedical engineering studies. Having managed to develop a series of physiological telemetry and magnetism memory system is his main contribution. Meanwhile, he developed the first aviation medical telemetry equipment, which established foundation of aviation biomedical engineering in China. His contribution of aviation physiological telemetry equipments and the eight-channel physiological oscillometer can simultaneously measure pilots' twelve different physiological and physical parametres within 300 kilometres of flight radius. Moreover, academician Yu Mengsun has put forward the dynamic response model of human spinal under impact load. Then by emulation research, he designed the dynamic response electronic model of human spinal by which he acquired the human peak tolerance parameters that can be ever achieved by nobody with traditional direct experiments. It is a great success to use the dynamic response model instead of living animal and human body itself. Academician Yu  was the inaugurator of applying control theory in the field of aviation medicine and solved the medical puzzle of life-saving ejection at zero height. Additionally, he invented three kinds of high-technique electricity physiological instruments and the long term monitoring system of multi-physiological parameters without the use of electrode, which has the bright prospect of its application in the military field.