In 2003, Zhou Qi returned from studying in France. While studying abroad, she was hired as a specially appointed overseas policy expert of the Ministry of Science and Technology. In the field of animal embryonic development and somatic cell cloning research, he created the "one-step method" of cell nuclear transfer, proved the reproducibility of mouse cloning, and obtained a patent; he successfully obtained the first somatic cell cloned rat in 2003 and the first successful cloning in 2004. Ferrets; research papers have been published in journals such as Science, and have been highly praised by Nature and Science. The successful "tetraploid compensation experiment" using induced stem cells (iPS cells) proved the totipotency of iPS cells for the first time in the world. This research result was published in Nature and attracted great attention from domestic and foreign colleagues. More than 3,000 media such as Nature, Science, and Times spoke highly of this "iconic" work; the iPS mouse "Xiao Xiao" was believed to have announced the victory of the iPS revolution and took over the "Dolly the Sheep" ignited torch. This research was selected as one of the top ten medical breakthroughs in 2009 by Time Magazine. His series of breakthrough works have been published in many authoritative scientific research publications such as Nature, Scienc, MCP, and Development. It has won many domestic and foreign science and technology awards and won praise from many parties in the science and technology community.
Award Speech:
The birth of an iPS mouse named "Xiao Xiao" announced the victory of a revolution, and at the same time continued the cloning of sheep with Chinese wisdom. The legend of "Dolly", he created the miracle of cloning animals, and also created the miracle of scientific research - Zhou Qi of the Zoological Research Institute.