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Professor Sun Manji, a biochemical pharmacologist, was born in August 1931 at Kaifeng City, Henan Province. He studied in 1948 at the Medical College, National Central University (renamed as the Fifth Military Medical University since mid 1949), and was assighned to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences after graduation in 1954. He worked there as the practical researcher, assistant professor, associate professor, and then the professor. He was elected the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was a visiting scholar (1973-1975) of the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and a guest professor (1987-1988) of the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Technical University of Berlin.
He has long been engaging in the research of biochemical pharmacology of the cholinergic nervous system, and has achieved great successes in the study of the pharmacotoxicological and biochemical characteristics of the chemical warfare agentresistant gene and nerve agent hydrolase families. Recently, he has been making creative headway in the alternative therapy research of the neurodegenerative diseases via supplementation of the pharmaceutical fusion proteins. The participated projects “The Medical Protection against SpecialWeapon Injuries at Wartime” and “The Biochemical Mechanism of the Actions of Soman on Acetylcholinesterase” were awarded respectively the National Science and Technology Advancement Prize (Special class) and the National Natural Science Prize (Second class). Besides, he was also awarded other nine items of the Military or Provincial Science and Technology Advancement Prizes (Second class). Professor Sun has published about two hundred articles, written and edited three monographs in chief, and five jointly with others. He has supervised thirtyseven masters,doctors and postdoctors all together. He was awarded the honour titles of “the Excellent Supervisor in Training of Graduate Students”, and “the Wellknown Master of One Generation” from the General Department of Logistics, PLA. He also won once the Merit Citations Class Ⅱ and twice the Merit Citation Class Ⅲ. He was honored in 1990 “the Award for Outstanding Young / Midaged Scholars” appoved by the National Ministry of Human Affairs, and gained the special stipend since 1991 from the State Council. He was the deputy to the Eighth National Peoples Congress, the member of the Eighth and Ninth committee of the Peoples Political Consultative Conference.
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