On November 22, the Chinese Academy of Engineering issued the Announcement on the List of Elected Academicians for the 2023 Academician Election of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prof. Xia Ningshao of our School was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Xia Ningshao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a Professor at the School of Public Health and School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University. He serves as the Director of the National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory. He was previously the dean of the School of Public Health, Xiamen University.

Prof. Xia has long been engaged in innovative and translational research on vaccines and diagnostic reagents for infectious diseases. He has pioneered the engineering technology system for human vaccines using prokaryotic expression of virus-like particles. He has accomplished the translational application of a series of vaccines and diagnostic reagents for infectious diseases and has researched, developed, and marketed innovative products such as the world's first Hepatitis E vaccine, the first domestic Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, the world's first nasal spray influenza virus vector COVID-19 vaccine, a new generation of international "gold standard" Hepatitis E diagnostic reagents, the world's first urine-based HIV self-test kit, the world's first total antibody diagnostic reagent for COVID-19, and the first domestic third-generation HIV diagnostic reagent.