Global Monopoly of Technology

Anyone who has anything to do with 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, and even checked the above articles, or read it. Translations and comments.

This time, Luo Sheng's Life Science Fund announced that it will spend huge sums of money to build 11 top research centers or laboratories around the world, 4 of which are frontiers focused on the medical field, and an additional top-level p4 laboratory is included. .

It is no wonder that The Lancet is so concerned, because the Life Science Fund is so rich, the huge sum of 18 billion US dollars is used in the field of life science, and even the National Natural Science Foundation of China does not have such a large amount of funds. A lot of money is thrown into 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 really divided into the field of life science are also stretched. .

However, all the funds of Luo Sheng's life science fund only focus on one field. If so much money is poured into it, the entire academic world will not be a sensation but abnormal.

Doing scientific research burns money, and doing research in cutting-edge fields burns money even more. A top laboratory often costs hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, and the transformation of commercial results is not ideal, so capital is rarely interested in it, and basically all countries are appropriation.

However, there are too many places for the state's financial expenditure, and many researches are forced to stay on paper because of insufficient funds. This is the helpless place for many researchers.

As soon as the Life Science Fund came up, it announced that it would build 11 R\u0026D centers, and half of them did not specify which specific research to focus on. This made scientists in the field of life sciences at home and abroad jump in their hearts, and all wanted to fight for life. Science Foundation supports their research.

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Capital, Qinghua University.

"Teacher, what do you have to do with me?" A young intellectual beauty entered Shi Yigong's office. Her name was Yang Ning, a genius who became the youngest female doctoral supervisor at Qinghua University at the age of 30, and the most talented woman in China. One of the outstanding biologists and the most proud female disciple of Professor Shi Yigong.

Yang Ning, known as the "Goddess of Academics", has a keen eye in the field of biology, and now he has gradually emerged internationally.

Shi Yigong put down his work and looked at his most proud female disciple with a smile: "Xiao Ning, do you know that Luo Sheng, the world's richest man, recently established a life science fund?"

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

Shi Yigong couldn't help laughing: "Even someone like you who stays in the laboratory all day and is obsessed with research knows that,

It seems that there is indeed a huge response in the industry. "

Yang Ning looked at his teacher puzzled: "What does this have to do with you calling me here?"

Hearing this, Shi Yigong took out two letters from the drawer of the desk and pushed them in the direction of Yang Ning, who stared curiously at the two letters on the table: "What is this?"

Shi Yigong smiled and said, "This first letter is a handwritten letter from Luo Sheng to me. It is a letter of merit. On behalf of his life science fund, he asked me to take over the post of director of a world-leading structural biochemistry laboratory. , just landed in Shencheng, the first phase of the project has an investment budget of up to 700 million yuan, and a super-large comprehensive laboratory with a total budget of 2.5 billion yuan."

This laboratory focuses on three major issues in the industry: 1) the formation mechanism of cyanobacterial blooms and its intervention strategies; 2) the pathogenic mechanism of Streptococcus pneumoniae; 3) the working mechanism of the ab 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 gleam with brilliance: "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, and I decided to recommend you to Luo Sheng to be the director of the Structural Biochemistry Laboratory in Shencheng. a job."

Yang Ning was surprised to hear this, but she simply refused without thinking, "Teacher, I don't have the ability and qualifications to manage such a huge laboratory, even if I can, it will be greatly improved. Takes up my research time and energy. I'm a scientist, not a manager, I just want to be a pure research scholar."

Yang Ning refused very simply, almost without hesitation.

Shi Yigong was not surprised by Yang Ning's decisive refusal, but said, "Xiao Ning, you are wrong, not only will you not hinder you from achieving greater achievements, but it will provide you with an unprecedented broad stage. The technology platform of the laboratory includes analysis and crystallization system; microbial genetic operating system; cell culture and analysis sorting system, enzymology research system and so on.”

Shi Yigong added: "In addition, there are many imported top large-scale instruments and equipment platforms, some of which are even high-end large-scale instruments and equipment that the Academy of Life Sciences and the National Research Center for Microscale Science do not have. I don't know how Luo Sheng convinced foreigners. "

It is worth mentioning that Luo Sheng's life science fund has not only received substantial financial support from the super rich or rich families around the world, but has also given strong support in scientific instruments and equipment.

You must know that the name of every super-rich or a wealthy family behind it represents not only a huge wealth, but if they are dealt with, many problems can be solved smoothly.

Yang Ning asked inexplicably, "Teacher, why do you want me to go instead of going?"

Shi Yigong smiled and said: "If you can't see a good nest, you can't wait to occupy it, and you have to make room for you young people. You are very good. I believe you can achieve world-renowned achievements in the field of structural biology. Achievement, so I hope you go. But you have to understand a truth, in order to achieve real results, it is not enough to be purely obsessed with research, otherwise you will not even be able to get funding for a scientific research project, how to do research? There are many reasons , As we all know, I won't say more, you take over the position of the director of the laboratory, and you will have a lot of power to decide your own research direction."

Seeing her teacher's serious tone and serious eyes, Yang Ning hesitated for a while, because what Shi Yigong said was true, and she was very grateful to this mentor who had a kindness to her. This time, I highly recommended one A wider stage...

After a while, she said hesitantly: "But the scale of this laboratory is too huge, I..."

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

After Shi Yigong said this, Yang Ning was gradually moved. With autonomy and abundant research funds, there are probably few scientists who are not moved.

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

"Send this letter to see the situation. I went to learn about it specially. Luo Sheng has always dared to use young young men to be the masters. You still have a lot of competitiveness." Shi Yigong said in a deep voice, although he In the letter of recommendation, I quickly praised my disciples for the rhythm of the sky, and I made the recommendation in my own name, but I was not completely sure.

After a while, Shi Yigong added: "But even if you can't be the director, I still recommend you to go. The laboratory is backed by a big moneymaker who is not bad, at least the amount and speed of your scientific research project funding. Bigger and more efficient than it is now."

For this, Shi Yigong has full confidence, as a recommendation letter written by an authority in the field of structural biology as a guarantee, this is quite weighty, as long as the laboratory manager does not have a brain, he will definitely warmly welcome .

Conversely, if it is rejected, it is also a good thing, indicating that it is not as worth looking forward to as imagined.

After speaking, Shi Yigong picked up the recommendation letter he had written and handed it to Yang Ning, who 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, let's put the work on hold for the time being, take this letter and go to Sucheng to meet with Luo Sheng first, and then talk about it, so that you can take care of your future."

Yang Ning: "Okay, then, I'll listen to the teacher, so I'll prepare."

Shi Yigong nodded and smiled: "Go."

Luo Sheng's letter was sent a few days ago, and Shi Yigong was also worried that not responding for too long would not only be impolite, but maybe someone else would occupy a place at that time, and it would give people a bad impression of being arrogant and arrogant, no matter what. You have to respond as soon as possible.

After all, this is the letter of merit for the richest man in the world.

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