Professor Han Jisheng (second from right), presents a book to Cheung On-tak (right), founder of the Cheung On Tak Charity Foundation, at an award presentation ceremony held at Hong Kong Baptist University on March 26. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Han Jisheng, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an honorary director of the Neuroscience Research Institute of Peking University Health Science Center, recently won the Cheung On Tak International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Medicine.

The School of Chinese Medicine of the Hong Kong Baptist University established the award in 2011 with a generous donation from the Cheung On Tak Charity Foundation.

The objective of the award is to recognize scientists and scholars for groundbreaking achievements in advancing the internationalization of Chinese medicine, breakthroughs and internationally recognized achievements in Chinese medicine research, and to promote the internationalization and modernization of Chinese medicine for the benefit of Greater China and the world.

Han was born in 1928 in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang province, and, in 1989, founded the Chinese Association for Pain Medicine, which became the Society of Pain Medicine under the auspices of the Chinese Medical Association in 1992.

Han also founded the Chinese Journal of Pain Medicine in 1995, a monthly journal in Chinese with English abstracts.

According to the Hong Kong Baptist University’s introduction to the award winner, Han has been active in neurobiological research on acupuncture mechanisms since 1965, and has made many achievements in the field.