Zhang Zhibin

Zhang Zhibin, female, was born in April 1953 in Quzhou, Zhejiang. She is a researcher, distinguished chief researcher and doctoral supervisor at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. After graduating from Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1983, she obtained master's and doctoral degrees in medicine and has long been engaged in research on the history and literature of traditional Chinese medicine, with particular expertise in the history of disease and the collation of ancient medical texts. Her thirteen works in the collection include collated editions of formularies such as Wei Family's Treasured Prescriptions, Medical Guide to Six Books of Shortcuts, Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Wind Section and Ten Convenient Effective Prescriptions, as well as Wenyi Lun and Wenre Lun, the punctuated edition of Medical Origins, and Classified Universal Effective Prescriptions and Its Sequel. She also wrote An Intellectual History of Chinese Medicine. She has edited Collected Studies on the Compendium of Materia Medica, Gems of Chinese Medical Manuscripts in the National Library and The Complete Works on Warm Diseases, and is the author of A Chronology of Epidemic Diseases in Ancient China and A History of Gynecological and Obstetric Diseases in Ancient Chinese Medicine, with solid achievements in the collation of Chinese medical literature and the study of disease history.