She is passionate and eloquent in the entrepreneurial competition, and she is dedicated in the laboratory, fresh and simple in life. Yan Jing? Doctor of Biomedicine, Cambridge University, UK. After graduation, she did not choose a comfortable research job. I made an appointment with a few like-minded friends and started a challenging entrepreneurial journey.
Sweep the entrepreneurial competition
I first met Yan Jing at the 20 15 British Global Elite Cup Entrepreneurship and Investment Competition held in April this year. At that time, Yan Jing's project was microfluidic technology, and Yan Jing's exposition conquered all the judges present and won the first prize without any suspense.
Microfluidic technology sounds very high-end and rough, and it becomes well understood through Yan Jing's explanation. Yan Jing said that her doctoral research direction is mainly based on three technologies of microfluidic microchips. Microfluidic technology mainly miniaturizes ordinary scientific experiments into droplets, which can reduce the experimental cost, reduce the experimental repeatability and improve the accuracy.
Based on this platform, the first technology studied by Yan Jing is ultra-high-speed droplet production technology, and the droplet production speed is 10 to 100 times that of the ordinary technology, so as to achieve the purpose of speeding up and reducing costs.
On this basis, the second technology is to determine and analyze the polymerizable peptides wrapped in droplets by using time-dependent single photon counting technology. This technique is mainly used for the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. 20/kloc-applied for an international patent in Cambridge in early April.
The third technology is the newly developed antibacterial microcapsule technology. Yan Jing's team found that an herbal extract has strong antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. It can be widely used in the production of medicine, daily chemicals, skin care products, pesticides and other products after being wrapped by droplets at high speed. Has the effects of small dosage and long effective period.
Yan Jing said: high-speed droplet production technology and antibacterial microcapsule technology are the first step in our business promotion, and the second step will be to promote the early diagnosis technology of neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, in the future, we will continue to develop new technologies to meet the needs of society. ?
Top student's transformation
One weekend in the early summer of May, I made an appointment with Yan Jing to visit her laboratory in Cambridge from London and meet her team. In front of Yan Jing, plain clothes is like a girl next door. It is hard to imagine that it is this top student who leads his entrepreneurial team to challenge the highest technology of biomedicine.
Yan Jing is from Huai 'an, Jiangsu, China. After graduating from China with honors, she went to England for further study. 20 14 officially obtained the doctor's degree in biomedicine from Cambridge university.
Currently a British private equity consulting firm? Medical consultant of Bain Company. Yan Jing used to work in the influenza prevention department of the United Nations World Health Organization. At the opening ceremony of the 20 12 London Olympic Games, she performed Newton's gravity program with Sir Ian McKellen. During his PhD, he published two international scientific documents and a leading international patent for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Although all the people along the way are accomplished experts, it is natural for them to pursue further studies after graduation. However, Yan Jing chose to enter a well-known consulting company in the industry, and at the same time set up her own company with friends during her Ph.D. period and started her entrepreneurial journey, Yan Jing said. I got so many research results and patents when I was studying, and I especially hope that these research results can be transformed into products and put into application in my own hands. Self-employment is a way to quickly transform these achievements into productive forces. ?
Go all out.
Yan Jing went to the United Nations World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, for an internship in May 20 12 with her own patent achievements. At the 65th World Health Assembly that year, Yan Jing learned about the huge demand for biomedicine in China.
Since then, he has been actively concerned about the biomedical high-tech market in China. In April of 20 14, Yan Jinghe and his team returned to Suzhou to evaluate the leading talents in science and technology, and set up their own biomedical technology company in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou. Since then, Yan Jing has positioned her career between Cambridge and Jiangsu.
Yan Jing said: In the future, our team will settle some R&D and scientific and technological production work in Jiangsu, and strive for the rapid advancement of follow-up technology research and development, so that products can be put into the market as soon as possible. ?
Speaking of the smooth progress of her own projects and products in the initial stage, Yan Jing believes that it is closely related to the good entrepreneurial environment of the school. Cambridge not only gathers a variety of world-class scientific research teams and scientific and technological achievements, but also pays special attention to cultivating students' entrepreneurial spirit, creating several superior entrepreneurial environments for students who choose to start their own businesses. I have benefited a lot from various entrepreneurial guidance and lectures. ?
At present, the team has obtained the initial financial support of 2 million yuan in China, and many angel funds have extended an olive branch to Yan Jing, but Yan Jing and her friends are actively looking for suitable angel investors to join the project and strive to put the products into production as soon as possible.
In the process of actively starting a business, Yan Jing also gained sweet love. She and her husband met in the laboratory when they were studying, and their common occupation and interest soon brought them together. The husband who is currently engaged in financial work naturally joined Yan Jing's startup company and is responsible for financial work. The young couple are constantly trying to develop their team's new products.