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Peixue LING
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Peixue LING
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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Peixue Ling is a distinguished Chinese pharmaceutical scientist whose research and professional work have focused on polysaccharide-based biopharmaceuticals, particularly hyaluronic acid (HA, also known as sodium hyaluronate). Born in 1963, he has devoted more than three decades to the research, technological development, and industrial application of HA raw materials, formulations, and biomedical materials. His work has encompassed the development of HA production technologies, pharmaceutical formulations, and biomedical applications. He established a high-viscosity fermentation precision-control and continuous purification and refining system for large-scale HA production, integrating separation, precipitation, and drying into an integrated process. He developed seven pharmaceutical raw materials and contributed to the development of more than ten products that obtained national Class II new drug certificates. He also participated in the formulation of the United States Pharmacopeia standard for HA and contributed to the development of a large-scale HA raw-material production base with an annual output of approximately 300 tonnes and a broad product range.

Professor Ling’s research has centred on polysaccharide biopharmaceuticals and the biomedical applications of HA, including ocular drug delivery and viscosupplementation therapy for osteoarthritis. His work has supported the application of HA in ophthalmic and orthopaedic drug development, including research relevant to cataracts, dry eye syndrome, and osteoarthritis. He has authored 396 peer-reviewed publications and nine monographs and holds 299 invention patent applications, including 138 authorised patents and 69 commercialised patents. His achievements have been recognised by two National Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Prize), one National Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Prize), the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Innovation, the Wu Jieping–Paul Janssen Pharmaceutical Research Award, and the National Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Expert Award, among other distinctions. Through sustained research, technological development, and industrial collaboration, Professor Ling has contributed to connecting polysaccharide chemistry and biopharmaceutical research with pharmaceutical development, biomedical applications, and the industrial production of HA-based products.