Shanghai scientists honored in top awards
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Eight scientists from Shanghai have won awards at a nationwide science awards event.
On Monday, the Hong Kong-based Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award, one of the most influential non-governmental awards in science and technology in China, honored 56 Chinese scientists for their contributions to research over the past year.
Wu Weiren, chief designer of China鈥檚 lunar exploration program, received the Achievement Award, the foundation鈥檚 top prize.
Among the Shanghai winners of the foundation鈥檚 Progress and Innovation awards were 31-year-old Liu Zhen and 34-year-old Yang Hui, from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Liu became the foundation鈥檚 youngest winner. He led research into the first cloned monkeys Zhongzhong and Huahua, refreshing the technical possibility of human cloning.
Yang built his own lab in 2014 and has published 12 articles in renowned scientific journals such as Science and Nature. He led research into a safer and more precise gene-editing tool that is expected to shorten the experiment time needed for clinical trials. His research team developed a 鈥済eneric scissor鈥 called ABE (F148A) which can cut genes with greater precision and avoid affecting RNA.
Three of the six scientists awarded for their contributions in medicine and life sciences were from Shanghai.
Geng Meiyu, from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, has been dedicated to the development of GV-971 since 1997.
The seaweed-based drug can improve cognitive ability in people suffering mild-to-moderate Alzheimer鈥檚 by regulating bacteria in the gut. This month, the National Medical Products Administration approved sales of the drug, the first drug for Alzheimer鈥檚 treatment to be approved in 17 years.
Fan Xianqun, Party secretary from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, developed key technologies in eye socket surgery. Liu Zhongmin, president of Shanghai East Hospital, was awarded the 2018 State Science and Technology Awards for producing China鈥檚 first comic books that instruct the public on safety precautions and escape measures in 15 disasters.
The other three award-winning Shanghai scientists were biochemist Fan Chunhai, CEO of leading medical device maker MicroPort Chang Zhaohua, and materials science expert Wang Huaping.
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