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City scientists take honors in health, drugs
By Cai Wenjun |
January 10, 2009, Saturday
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SHANGHAI researchers posted their best performance ever when the 2008 State Science and Technology Awards were handed out yesterday in Beijing.
Fifty-seven projects that local researchers led or participated in won 16.4 percent of the 348 efforts honored -- the highest share in the city's history. Projects with local ties won three awards in natural sciences, six for technological inventions and 48 for science and technology progress.
The highlight of the local contribution was in field of health and pharmaceuticals, which witnessed advances in the treatment of cancer and hypertension, among other innovations. The 13 awards picked up by local scientists comprised half of that category's total.
"All these programs contributed to people's physical and mental health and enhanced the quality of life," said Yin Bangqi of the city's science and technology award management office.
Among the health honors, scientists at Shanghai's Ruijin Hospital were able to increase the early detection of gastric cancer from 10.3 percent to 21.6 percent.
At Zhongshan Hospital, researchers created a comprehensive package of technologies including medications and surgery to treat late-stage liver cancer. Fan Jia, the program's chief researcher, said the package helped extend survival periods to at least a year for 70 percent of all cases. In the past, the average was about three months.
The Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry developed a hypertension medicine that broke the former monopoly held by imported products. Experts also invented a new processing technology and adopted more cost-effective materials. The medicine has received two intellectual property rights certificates and achieved 1.2 billion yuan (US$175.7 million) in sales.
Each of those institutions won a 100,000 yuan prize, but scientists said the prestige that comes with the honor is more important than the money.
In other local efforts, a new breeding technology from the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences that helps mushrooms survive cold weather won a science and technology progress award. The advance was introduced nationwide, and products using the technology now cover 70 percent of all mushroom breeds.
The last time the local agriculture industry won a national science award was about 10 years ago.
Fifty-seven projects that local researchers led or participated in won 16.4 percent of the 348 efforts honored -- the highest share in the city's history. Projects with local ties won three awards in natural sciences, six for technological inventions and 48 for science and technology progress.
The highlight of the local contribution was in field of health and pharmaceuticals, which witnessed advances in the treatment of cancer and hypertension, among other innovations. The 13 awards picked up by local scientists comprised half of that category's total.
"All these programs contributed to people's physical and mental health and enhanced the quality of life," said Yin Bangqi of the city's science and technology award management office.
Among the health honors, scientists at Shanghai's Ruijin Hospital were able to increase the early detection of gastric cancer from 10.3 percent to 21.6 percent.
At Zhongshan Hospital, researchers created a comprehensive package of technologies including medications and surgery to treat late-stage liver cancer. Fan Jia, the program's chief researcher, said the package helped extend survival periods to at least a year for 70 percent of all cases. In the past, the average was about three months.
The Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry developed a hypertension medicine that broke the former monopoly held by imported products. Experts also invented a new processing technology and adopted more cost-effective materials. The medicine has received two intellectual property rights certificates and achieved 1.2 billion yuan (US$175.7 million) in sales.
Each of those institutions won a 100,000 yuan prize, but scientists said the prestige that comes with the honor is more important than the money.
In other local efforts, a new breeding technology from the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences that helps mushrooms survive cold weather won a science and technology progress award. The advance was introduced nationwide, and products using the technology now cover 70 percent of all mushroom breeds.
The last time the local agriculture industry won a national science award was about 10 years ago.
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