Recently, Elsevier officially released the 2025 “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” list. A total of 6,310 researchers were included, from 543 universities, enterprises, and research institutions, covering 10 disciplinary fields and 83 first-level disciplines under the Ministry of Education.

Among them, a total of 22 cardiovascular experts from mainland China were included, and Professor Zhang Chunxiang, Party Secretary of the university, was among them, demonstrating his far-reaching influence in the field of cardiovascular research.

Zhang Chunxiang is a National Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Program awardee, an expert receiving the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, a Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences (MAE), a Second-Grade Professor of Cardiology, and President of the Integrative Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. He currently serves as Party Secretary of the University, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Director of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education and the Innovation Center of the Ministry of Education. He spent 22 years in the United States, where he successively held tenured full professorships and endowed chair professorships at several American universities. He has published over 220 SCI-indexed papers, with more than 18,000 citations and an h-index of 61. He has long served as a review expert for the Changjiang Scholars Program and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.