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Just today, Yan Ning appeared in Shenzhen and officially announced:
He will resign from Princeton faculty and return to Shenzhen to help createShenzhen Academy of Medical Sciencesas founding dean.
As soon as the news broke, it quickly grabbed the attention of all walks of life and reached the top of Weibo’s research.
Many professors and scholars have broadcast the news for the first time:
There are also netizens in Guangdong who have suddenly realized that it’s no wonder that so many big shots pay attention to the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.
Other netizens have expressed their expectations for the return of the big shot to China:
What is the origin of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences? What will Yan Ning do when she returns to China this time?
Coming home full time for the second time
Yan Ning graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s and PhD from Princeton, and studied with Shigong, a well-known structural biologist and current president of Westlake University.
In October 2007, Yan Ning just completed a three-year postdoctoral research at the Princeton Department of Molecular Biology.
At the invitation of Professor Zhao Nanming, Yan Ning returned to her university alma mater, Tsinghua University, as a medical faculty professor and doctoral supervisor.
That year he was only 30 (Yan Ning was born in November 1977).
During Yan Ning’s time at Tsinghua University, the most surprising results were:
In 2014, he led a team to solve the three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter GLUT1 for the first time.
After the result was published in Nature, it immediately received widespread attention and praise from the international academic community. Many scientists have called this result a “milestone”.
Brian Kobilka, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, commented:
To develop drugs for human diseases, obtaining human transport facilities is critical. Structural elucidation of GLUT1 is in itself a very challenging and risky task, so this is a great achievement.
Ronald Kaback, a National Academy of Sciences academic and expert on membrane transporters, said:
This is an important milestone in 50 years.
Harvey Lodish, an academic at the National Academy of Sciences and a professor at MIT, also added the findings to the eighth edition of the classic “Molecular Cell Biology” textbook he was writing at the time.
Then, in 2015, Yan Ning’s team further obtained ultra-high resolution structures of GLUT3 binding substrates and inhibitors with multiple conformations, thus clearly revealing the molecular basis of the fundamental cellular process of glucose transmembrane transport.
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In the blink of an eye, in 2017, Yan Ning, who had been a full-time professor at Tsinghua University for 10 years, chose to step down from a full-time position to become a part-time professor, and went to the Princeton University teach.
This move immediately sparked widespread concern and heated discussion among Chinese and foreign academic circles and netizens.
During his stay in the United States, Yan Ning was elected a foreign academic of the American Academy of Sciences in 2019. In April last year, Yan Ning was elected an academic of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with the famous l computer scientist Li Feifei.
Regarding why he went back to China this time, Yan Ning said he and Shenzhen were “on the spot”:
Shenzhen is said to be the “Capital of Volumes”, but I agree with another nickname of Shenzhen: the capital of dreams, the capital of dreams.
Teaching at Tsinghua University and Princeton are the first two dreams of my life and, in Shenzhen, I will work hard to make the third dream come true.
He also said he “quickly filed an application for resignation from Princeton University.”
Construction of a new mechanism for the Academy of Medicine
Finally, I returned to the institution where Yan Ning was going to work: the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.
Indeed, Yan Ning’s return to China has long been mapped out: when the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences was preparing for the institution, it was already scheduled to carry out “dean selection” work in 2020-2021. . Therefore, some netizens speculated that Yan Ning had a long-term relationship with the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.
According to the Shenzhen Health and Health Commission, the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is a state institution.new mechanicsAcademy of Medicine.
The so-called “new mechanism” comprises two aspects.
The first is the new positioning.
Namely, the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is not just a pure research institution, according to the official release, it is a“Scientific research bodies that organize scientific research”。
Its primary function is to perform public management and service functions in medical science and technological research. In addition, the second is to lead the development of medical science and technology in Shenzhen.
To this end, the Shenzhen Municipal Government has also established the “Shenzhen Special Medical Research Fund”, which entrusts professional management to the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.
The second is the new mechanism.
Establishment for an indefinite period, indefinite level, independent office, according to the principles of council governance and academic autonomy.
Rightincluding the principalFor scientific research talents, a market-oriented salary and socialized work system are implemented.
In September last year, the Shenzhen Health and Health Commission announced a wave of hires for executive positions at the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.
The new mechanism is not only reflected in the aspect of the staff. Although the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is registered as a public institution directly under the Shenzhen Municipal Government, it is essentially a statutory body and implements “one hospital, one law”.
Specifically, the government will issue the “Administrative Measures for the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences”, which will be able to autonomously organize the academy according to the law without taking into account the system of traditional institutions.
Where does the money come from?
It consists of three parts: special government funding, social funding, and conversion benefits.
The first is the government special funding, which is the “Shenzhen Special Medical Research Fund” above. According to documents published in May this year, the government has allocated 28.48 million yuan for its budget in 2022.
At the same time, the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences will also set up a joint fund, accept charitable donations, introduce venture capital and gradually explore the establishment of the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Health Technology Innovation Guidance Fund” .
In addition, another important source of funds for the Academy of Medical Sciences is the transformation and production of drugs and devices, and the profits from the transformation are directly returned to itself.
Regarding the future development plan of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences, there are two points to be summarized.
The first point isAggregate resources.Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is equivalent to aaCollaborative innovation platform for medical technologyto solve the problem of the scattered allocation of national medical and technological resources, avoid the cross-waste of resources and the inefficient use of scientific research funds.
The second point is to helpResults of chemical research. Shenzhen will allow researchers to passTechnology shares”, Participating in the transformation project, participating directly in the transformation process of scientific and technological results and improving the enthusiasm for transformation.
In addition, the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences will also transform enterprises through “equity participation” through angelic investments and other forms and will gradually move from a single technology research and development to a hybrid of the scientific research sector.
According to the construction plan of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences, the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences will be substantially completed in 2025.
Source of this article:qubitthe original title: “Yan Ning announces return from the United States”
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