Physician Wu Liping, a member of the team led by Professor Shi Bingyin from Endocrinology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, attended the 87th America Thyroid Association (ATA) Annual Meeting held in Fairmont Empress Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, Canada during October 18 to 22, 2017.
ATA is one of most influential academic organizations in the international field of thyroid. This meeting was attended by the research personnel and clinicians from 43 countries, and 34 research abstracts from different countries were selected as oral reports.
Under the financial aids from school and hospital for attending high-level international meeting, Physician Wu Liping attended this meeting and gave a speech titled “First Report of Tree Shrew Graves’ Disease Model”. This research was the first successful preparation of Tree Shrew Graves model in the world, and many foreign peers showed a great interest in and paid close attention to this research. This model was another new breakthrough made by Professor Shi Bingyin’s team on the basis of first successful induction of new tolerance and prevention of Graves as well as successful preparation of rhesus Graves model, which would provide a more ideal tool for Graves disease pathogenesis and prevention research in the future.
