Li Renke, a visionary cardiovascular scientist who applied engineering principles to the human heart and developed conductive biomaterials to repair tissue damaged by heart attacks, died while attending an academic conference in the Chinese city of Xian earlier this month. He was 65.
His death on October 10 was announced by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), where he was presidential chair professor and associate dean of research and translation at the school of medicine, which he joined in March last year.
The university did not specify the cause of death.
Li was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, in 1961. He completed his medical and scientific education at Harbin Medical University, Shanxi Medical University and the University of Toronto in Canada.