Nearly 1,000 people gathered at a local funeral home on Saturday morning to pay their last respects to Chen Zhongwei, a world-renowned expert in orthopedics and vascular surgery who died accidentally on March 23 at the age of 75.

　　Present at Chen's funeral were officials from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai municipal government and Fudan University, Chen's family members, friends, colleagues, students and many patients whom he had cured of various bone diseases over the past 50 years. Chen was believed to have fallen off his window while trying to enter his seventh-floor apartment. Police found his keys and mobile phone in his room, his fingerprint on the window and his briefcase in front of his apartment door.