On the afternoon of October 30, World Laureates Forum Summit on Innovative Drug R&D and Translational Medicine and World Laureates Forum Summit on New Energies and New Materials were held at the Student Activity Center and Tuwen Information Center of SHOU. Also present at the events were Wu Jiamin, Secretary of SHOU CPC Committee; Cheng Yudong, SHOU President; Wu Jiannong, Deputy Secretary of SHOU CPC Committee; Li Jiale, SHOU Vice President; Zheng Weidong, member of the Standing Committee and Director of the Propaganda Department of SHOU CPC Committee, as well as nearly 500 teachers and students.
Guests at the World Laureates Forum Summit on Innovative Drug R&D and Translational Medicine listened to keynote speeches given by Aaron Ciechanover, winner of 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Avram Hershko, winner of 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Weng Qihui, winner of 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; Robert Huber, winner of 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Michael Sheetz, winner of 2012 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; Peter Walter, winner of 2014 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. The prize winners engaged in round-table dialogues with academicians and young scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering regarding the cutting-edge technologies and major breakthroughs in innovative drug R&D and translational medicine, tumor molecular typing & targeted therapy, stem cell & cell therapy, new high-incidence causative viruses, infectious diseases, artemisinin, and latest tumor and cancer therapies, as well as the mechanisms and cycles of innovative drug R&D and pharmaceutical industries.
The distinguished guests at the World Laureates Forum Summit on New Energies and New Materials included Michael Kosterlitz, winner of 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Shechtman, winner of 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Gerard 't Hooft, winner of 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics; Andre Geim, winner of 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics; Yang Peidong, winner of 2015 MacArthur Fellows Program; and Dai Hongjie, winner of 2006 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (presented by American Physical Society). They engaged in dialogues about cutting-edge technologies and major breakthroughs in this field, and their topics covered oceans, thermal energy, hydrogen energy, electric power, radioactive waste treatment, and other renewable energy technologies and applications, as well as the future industrial landscape and eco-chains of new energy vehicles, new-generation solar cells, meta-materials, and other energy applications.
