of Tongji University in Shanghai to Wuhan and has been now a department of the local Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He was also made the head of the organ transplant research institute there. In 1981, he became the Head of the University and in 1984, he was made the Honorary Head, the post of which he remained at until his death in 2008. Qiu was one of the most acclaimed surgeons of China and a pioneer of Chinese organ transplantation, who wrote a standard textbook of surgery that is still in use and has been reprinted many times. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and, from 1975 to 1993, was a member of the Chinese Communist Party, the deputy to the 4th-7th National People's Congresses. Qiu died aged 94 and was buried on 7 April 2009 at Qiu Fazu Square in Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. Awards (selection) 1982: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Clinical Medicine I of the University of Heidelberg, with whom Qiu had arranged a partnership agreement in 1985 between the Medical School of Wuhan and the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg for the exchange of scientists and students. 1985: Grand Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. 2007: Honorary member of the German Society for Visceral Surgery for the rescue of Jewish prisoners. References 1914 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Chinese physicians Chinese surgeons Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Chinese Communist Party politicians from Zhejiang Educators from Hangzhou Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress Delegates to the 6th National People's Congress Delegates to the 5th National People's Congress Delegates to the 4th National People's Congress Members of the 4th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences People's Republic of China politicians from Zhejiang Physicians from Zhejiang Politicians from Hangzhou Scientists from Hangzhou Tongji University alumni Academic staff of Tongji University Zhejiang University alumni 20th-century surgeons