Dr. Hsiung, long time friend of Hubei Medical College (WUSM), passed away

wusm 贴于2006/08/24 16:15 （武汉大学校友论坛）

Dear friends,

I am circulating this sad news from Dr. Marie Landry about Dr. G. D. Hsiung's death from cancer last Sunday. She passed away Sunday afternoon after my family's visit to her at Connecticut Hospice on Saturday. Dr. Hsiung visited Hubei Medical University many times during 1970s and 1980s. She trained several hundreds of Chinese virologists in her virology training classes at Hubei Medical University in 1982, 1984, and 1986. She received her honorary Professorship in Virology first from Hubei Medical University in 1982 and several others later from Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Tianjin Medical University, etc. As her former fellow and close friend, I am sorrowfully to inform you that she had left us at age of 87. Her Funeral Service will be held by her family and close friends on Aug. 29 (Tuesday), 10:00 am at Curvin K. Council Funeral Home, 128 Dwight St., New Haven, CT 06511 (Tel.: 203-865-5100).

Sincerely yours,

Thomas
Zhi-Ming Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.
Principal investigator
HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch
Center For Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute/NIH

From: Shu-Yuan Xiao [mailto:syxiao @ utmb . edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:14 PM

Yidao,

Dr. Hsiung held several symposia in Hu Yi on Clinical Diagnostic Virology, which were attended by many virologists from all over China in the early 80's, and made huge contribution in training the new generation of modern virologists from China. She helped establishing a tie between Yale and Hu Yi. Dr. Zheng and Hu both trained in her lab at Yale.

Please discuss with Drs. Zheng and Hu regarding how to post this message in our website, and if they are planning to write a short essay about Dr. Hsiung's contribution particularly related to our medical school.

Zhinan may be following her footsteps in facilitating a new tie between Yale and Hu Yi.

Thanks.

From: Dr. Marie Landry
Sent: Wed 8/23/2006 5:10 PM
Subject: [pascv] Dr. Hsiung

Dear Colleagues,

I know many of you knew Dr. Hsiung, and I wanted to let you know that she died this past Sunday. Below is a brief summary of her life and career. She attended every Clinical Virology Symposium at Clearwater Beach, from the 1st to the 19th, until her health would no longer permit it. She was a devoted member of PASCV from its founding and put together the J Clin Virology special issue on the history of the society. She was truly one of a kind and will be sorely missed.

Marie Landry

Marie Louise Landry, M.D.
Director, Clinical Virology Laboratory
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208035
New Haven, CT 06520-8035

HSIUNG, G.D. (Gueh Djen), Ph.D.: 1918 –2006

Dr. Gueh-Djen (Edith) Hsiung, died on Sunday, August 20, 2006 at Connecticut Hospice, of cancer after a long illness. Dr. Hsiung was Professor Emeritus of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and a world-renowned virologist and teacher. She was 87.

She was born on September 16, 1918 in Hupei, China and graduated from Ginling College, Chengdu, China, where she majored in pre-medical studies and biology. Her opportunity to attend medical school was lost, however, when Peking Union Medical College closed during World War II. After the war, she came to the U.S. and obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. At that time, she also underwent day-long surgery to fuse a congenitally dislocated hip, spending nine months in a total body cast. In order to pay her medical expenses, she worked for the next two years at the Wene Poultry Laboratory in New Jersey, where she developed the first vaccine for infectious bronchitis virus in chickens. Since her original interest was medicine, she applied for admission to Yale University School of Medicine, but was told she was too old. Instead she was offered a postdoctoral fellowship, which paid a much needed stipend.

Thus, in 1953, she came to Yale University School of Medicine where she first worked under Dr. Joseph Melnick (discoverer of coxsackie B and echoviruses) on poliovirus and related enteroviruses. Her research eventually spanned over four decades, included many different viruses, and produced well over 200 scientific publications. Her contributions included developing cell culture methods to detect and characterize viruses, and animal models to study viral pathogenesis and treatment. In the process, she trained numerous post-doctoral fellows who came to her laboratory from around the world. Aside from a two-year sojourn at New York University, Dr. Hsiung spent her entire professional career at Yale University.

Dr. Hsiung was a passionate spokesperson for accurate viral diagnosis and a pioneer in founding modern diagnostic virology. She became the first Director of the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory at Yale New Haven Hospital in 1960, wrote the textbook “Diagnostic Virology” that became a standard in the field, and gave an intensive course entitled “Experimental and Diagnostic Methods of Virology” every 1-2 years for decades in the U.S., China and Taiwan, thus training countless professionals in the field. In 1967 she became Chief of the Virology Research and Diagnostic Laboratories at the West Haven VA Hospital and Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale. In 1984, she established the National Virology Reference Laboratory at the West Haven VA to serve VA hospitals nationwide, and became its first Director. From 1992 to 1998, Dr. Hsiung traveled annually to the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan to help establish a model virology laboratory in the Department of Pathology. This laboratory has subsequently played an important role in diagnosing serious viral infections in the region, such as SARS and avian influenza. In September 2006, a new Virology Contract Laboratory named in honor of Dr. Hsiung will open at the National Health Research Institute at Cheng Kung University.

Dr. Hsiung received many awards and honors, including the Becton-Dickinson Award in Clinical Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology, and the Wellcome Diagnostic Award from the Pan American Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis. In 1989, she received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Michigan State University.

Dr. Hsiung was well known for her persistence and determination, her infectious enthusiasm for every “discovery” no matter how small, and her skill in encouraging her many protégés. Her many friends, colleagues and trainees greatly appreciated her good cheer, boundless energy, social grace, and generosity. Although she was never known to take a vacation, the wonderful parties she gave at her home in Branford remain legendary.

Dr. Hsiung is survived by her niece, Zhi Wang of China, grand nieces, Zhe Zhao of Branford, CT and Wei Zhao of China, great grand nephew Newton Ni, great grand nieces Marion Ni and Diana Ni.

A Memorial Service at Yale will be held at a later date.

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G. D. Hsiung Memorial on Sept. 25 in the Historical Library at Yale --- wusm 2006/09/18 15:37 (1215 bytes)

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