Global monopoly of technology

Anyone who is involved in medicine has heard of the journal "The Lancet", let alone a medical student, even some patients who have been ill for a long time have heard of it, or even consulted the article above, or read it. Translation and comment.

This time, Luo Sheng’s Life Science Fund announced that it will spend a huge amount of money to build 11 top research centers or laboratories around the world, of which 4 are focused on the frontiers of the medical field, and additionally include a top P4 laboratory .

No wonder "The Lancet" pays so much attention, because the life science fund is too rich. The huge amount of US$18 billion is used in the field of life sciences. Even the National Natural Science Foundation of China is not so rich. A lot of money is spent in one area.

There is a huge difference between natural science and life science. Life science is a part of natural science, but natural science involves basic research in many fields such as physics, chemistry, and new materials. It can be seen that the funds that are truly divided into life sciences are also stretched. .

However, all the funds of Luo Sheng's life science fund are only focused on one field. With so much money, the whole academic circle is not a sensation but abnormal.

It burns money to engage in scientific research and research in frontier fields. A top-notch laboratory can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, and the transformation of commercial results is not ideal, so capital is rarely interested in it, and it is basically the state. Appropriation.

However, there are too many places for national fiscal expenditures, and many researches have been forced to stay on paper because of insufficient funds. This is where many researchers are helpless.

As soon as the Life Science Fund came up, it announced that it would build 11 R&D centers, and half of them did not know exactly which specific research to focus on. This made the scientists in the field of life sciences at home and abroad shocked and wanted to win lives. The Science Foundation supports their research.

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Capital, Qinghua University.

"Teacher, what do you want me to do?" A young intellectual beauty entered Shi Yigong's office, her name was Yang Ning, a genius who became the youngest female doctoral supervisor of Qinghua University and the most domestic One of the outstanding biologists and the most proud female disciple of Professor Shi Yigong.

Yang Ning is known as the "Academic Goddess" and has a keen eye in the field of biology, and has now begun to gradually emerge internationally.

Shi Yigong put aside his work and smiled at his most proud female disciple: "Xiaoning, do you know that Luo Sheng, the world's richest man, recently established a life science fund?"

Yang Ning: "I know, it has been a sensation in the academic world."

Shi Yigong couldn't help but laughed: "Even people like you who stay in the laboratory all day long and are immersed in research know that it really seems to have a huge response in the industry."

Yang Ning looked at his teacher in confusion: "What does this have to do with you calling me over?"

Hearing this, Shi Yigong took out two letters from the desk drawer and pushed them in Yang Ning's direction. The latter curiously stared at the two letters on the desk: "What is this?"

Shi Yigong laughed and said: "This first letter is written by Luo Sheng to me. It is a letter of seeking talents. On behalf of his life science fund, I was invited to take the post of director of a world-leading structural biochemistry laboratory. , It landed in Shanghai. The first phase of the project has a budget of 700 million yuan and a total budget of 2.5 billion yuan for a super-large comprehensive laboratory."

This laboratory focuses on three major issues in the industry: 1) the formation mechanism of cyanobacteria blooms and its intervention strategies; 2) the pathogenic mechanism of Streptococcus pneumoniae; 3) the working mechanism of ABC transporter.The theoretical system and methodology of the laboratory include but are not limited to biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, microbiology, biophysics and cell biology.

Yang Ning's eyes couldn't help but a touch of brilliance: "It's really rich...Teacher, did you agree?"

Shi Yigong shook his head, and immediately reached out and clicked the second letter on the table: "This is a letter of recommendation I wrote to you. I decided to recommend you to Luo Sheng to be the director of the Structural Biochemistry Laboratory in Shanghai. A post."

Yang Ning heard this unexpectedly, but she refused without thinking about it, and said: "Teacher, I don't have the ability and qualifications to manage such a huge laboratory. Even if I can, it will be a great deal. It takes up my research time and energy. I am a scientist, not a manager. I just want to be a pure research scholar."

Yang Ning refused very simply, almost without hesitation.

To Yang Ning’s decisive refusal, Shi Yigong was not surprised at all, but said: “Xiao Ning, you are wrong. Not only will you go there will not hinder you from achieving greater achievements, but will provide you with an unprecedented broad stage. The technical platform of the laboratory includes analysis and crystallization systems; microbial genetic operating systems; cell culture and analysis and sorting systems, enzymatic research systems, and so on."

Shi Yigong added: "In addition, there are many imported top-notch large-scale instrument and equipment platforms, some of which are not even available in the School of Life Sciences and the National Research Center of Microscale Science. I don't know how Luo Sheng convinced foreigners. "

It is worth mentioning that Luo Sheng's Life Science Fund has not only received solid financial support from super-rich or rich families around the world, but also provided strong support in scientific equipment.

To know the name of every super-rich or rich family, behind it, it represents not only having a huge amount of wealth. If they are dealt with, many problems can be solved smoothly.

Yang Ning asked in a puzzled manner: "Teacher, why did you not want me to go instead?"

Shi Yigong laughed and said: "If you can't see a good nest, you will be impatient to occupy it, and you have to give way to young people like you. You are excellent. I believe you can achieve world-renowned attention in the field of structural biology. Achievement, so I want you to go. But you have to understand a truth, if you want to really achieve results, it’s not just pure enthusiasm for research, otherwise you can’t even get funding for a research project. How can you research? There are many reasons. As everyone knows, I won’t say much. If you take the position of the director of the laboratory, you will have a lot of power to decide your research direction."

Yang Ning saw his teacher’s solemn tone and serious eyes, and he hesitated for a while, because Shi Yigong said all of these were correct, and I am very grateful to this instructor who has met her. This time I highly recommend another one. A broader stage...

After a while, she hesitated and said, "But the scale of this laboratory is too large, I..."

Shi Yigong laughed and said: "You don't need to worry about it, you don't need to spend too much energy on management. The real power manager of this laboratory is the Life Science Foundation. Strictly speaking, this is a privately funded laboratory. But you have the right to speak as the director, and your voice will play a pivotal role in it. At least you have a lot of autonomy in the research you want to do."

After Shi Yigong said so, Yang Ning gradually became excited. I am afraid that not a few scientists would be distracted by the autonomy and abundant research funding.

"Teacher, will Luo Sheng agree?" Yang Ning said suddenly. Although she is very talented in the field of structural biology, she is too young after all, and she originally asked Shi Yigong to head the house.

"Send this letter to see the situation. I specifically went to find out. Luo Sheng has always dared to start a young and strong school. You still have a lot of competitiveness." Shi Yigong said in a deep voice. In the letter of recommendation, he quickly praised his disciples' pace to the sky, and sponsored in his own name, but he was not completely sure.

After a while, Shi Yigong added: "But even if you can't be the director, I still suggest you go. The laboratory is backed by a large financial sponsor, at least you can get the amount and speed of scientific research projects. Bigger and more efficient than it is now."

Regarding this point, Shi Yigong has full self-confidence. As an authority in the field of structural biology, a letter of recommendation written as a guarantee is quite significant. As long as the manager of the laboratory is not convulsed, he is definitely welcome .

Conversely, if you refuse, it is also a good thing, indicating that it is not as worth looking forward to as expected.

After speaking, Shi Yigong picked up the recommendation letter he had written and handed it to Yang Ning. The latter nodded with the letter: "Thank you, teacher, I will go to the laboratory if there is nothing else."

Shi Yigong shook his head and said: "Don't study it. I will put the work on hold for now. Take this letter to Sucheng and meet Luo Sheng before I talk about it. I will give you some refreshments for your future."

Yang Ning: "Well, I'll listen to the teacher, so I will prepare now."

Shi Yigong nodded and smiled: "Go."

Luo Sheng’s letter was sent a few days ago, and Shi Yigong also worried that not responding for too long is not only impolite, maybe it will be taken over by others, and it will give people a bad impression of being arrogant, no matter what. You have to respond as soon as possible.

After all, this is the letter of the world's richest man.

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