I took time to watch the award ceremony of the 2020 Future Science Award. Professor Zhang Tingdong and Professor Wang won the prize? Life science award? In recognition of their decisive contribution to the cure of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), the prize is about 7 million yuan, which is actually quite a big reward.
But after listening to Academician Wang's words, I think this is the real healer and chivalrous man!
The host asked? Professor Wang, how do you feel about winning this award? ? I thought it would be some habitual thanks, but Professor Wang's answer was very emotional. Why is this award awarded to such an old man? After learning that he won the prize, his mood was mixed. ? On the positive side, Professor Wang said: This shows that the country attaches importance to science, which is beneficial to the development of the people and the country. He is still very happy as the winner. But on the sad side, I am also very sad. Why is this award awarded to such an old man? I am 96 years old and I am about to leave this world. Why didn't this award go to young people? Don't they innovate?
In an interview of about 8 minutes, Professor Wang has been emphasizing innovation, medical innovation and young people's innovation. Simply sum up with you:
1, winning the prize, mixed feelings; Happy is to thank you for your recognition of my research work and the attention of national enterprises to science;
It's a pity that this award should be awarded to more young people. Young people's innovation is more important. They can still serve their country, and I'm leaving this world.
We should pay more attention to the innovation of our work, not just whether we publish top papers. Award-winning results, the original published articles are also medium-level papers.
4. Only by hard work can we innovate. As a private enterprise, Huawei can also lead the world with 5g, which is inseparable from efforts. The development of medicine and science is inseparable from perseverance.
5. Finally, young medical scientists in China are encouraged. After working all my life, we have worked hard for decades and only solved one leukemia, not all leukemia. I am very sad that many patients with acute leukemia still die every day. We should reward more young people and encourage them to continue to work hard to realize our ideals.
6. How to judge a young man depends on his innovation ability, research ability and sustainable development ability. After all, success does not take a day or two.
As for how to distribute the bonus, Professor Wang directly entrusted the hospital to donate it to the poverty alleviation fund. After listening to Professor Wang's telephone connection, I understood what a real doctor is. As for Professor Wang? Four academicians? The story of master-apprentice relay to conquer leukemia is also circulating.
At that time, Wang did not apply for the patent of all-trans retinoic acid, but simply hoped that all patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia in the world could afford it as soon as possible. This is called being a patient? Specific medicine? Even today, more than 30 years later, a box of yellow pills is only a few hundred yuan, which can still be included in medical insurance, while the price of similar cancer treatment drugs is as high as 20 thousand yuan.
Since then, Wang and other students have creatively put forward? All-trans retinoic acid combined with arsenic trioxide? The five-year survival rate of acute promyelocytic leukemia increased from 10% to over 97%, making it the first curable leukemia.
Academician of China Academy of Sciences and Dean of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine often talk about the process that Wang helped him revise his master's thesis. Teacher Wang revised it again and again, revised and copied it again and again. Teacher Wang revised 10 times and copied the graduation thesis of nearly 20,000 words 10 times. It is the tutor's inculcation and words and deeds that inspire students to climb the medical peak.
Every time, Wang insisted on listing his students as the first and second authors of the paper, putting himself at the end, even not participating in the signature, in order to let the young scientific research backbone take on greater responsibilities.
Mr. Wang has won many awards. He is the winner of the highest national science and technology award in 20 10 and a tenured professor at Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. At the age of 96, he still insists on doing it every Thursday morning? Open-book exam? . It turns out that every week, students will provide Wang with a difficult case. Wang will spend a week searching the latest literature in the world, think about it and make it into PPT for discussion.
All educators have a wish that young people can grow up and master modern science. I think every teacher is like this. I have nothing special. I just take them to study together, so that they can have the correct learning direction and methods and create more opportunities and space for their development. ? Wang said to him.
Academician Wang put forward his own thoughts on the evaluation system of adolescent growth. He believes that judging a young man depends on whether he is innovative, studious, diligent and tolerant of loneliness, because success does not take a day or two. For what? How are you going to distribute the bonus? Wang this question, say? Can you ask the hospital to donate all of it to the poverty alleviation foundation for me? .
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