Liu Chenli, a researcher with Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, won an award for innovation in the 16th event of C.C. Tan Life Science Awards. The C.C. Tan Life Science Awards aims to uphold C.C. Tan’s dedication to the cause of life science, promote the originality of life science research and the industrialization of research achievements in China, promote academic exchanges in the field of life science in China, encourage Chinese life science workers to innovate constantly, and make contributions to the construction of an innovative country.
The C.C. Tan Life Science Awards has now become the life science award with the highest level in China.
The awarding ceremony
On November 18, the 16th awarding ceremony of C.C. Tan Life Science Award was held in Jiangnan University. Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Nurse was awarded the C.C. Tan Life Science Award for International Cooperation for his contribution to the research field of “key regulators in the cell cycle”, which was of far-reaching significance for opening up new ways to treat cancer. In addition, he has maintained a long-term research cooperation with Chinese researchers and made important contributions to promoting academic exchanges between China and the UK. It was the first Nobel Prize winner to win the award in the past 16 years.
The awarding ceremony was hosted by the Consortium of Life Science of China Association for Science and Technology and C.C. Tan Life Science Award Committee, and organized by Jiangnan University and Shanghai Biomedical Industry Association.
Winners of C.C. Tan life Science Award for Achievements:
Lu Lin, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Peking University Sixth Hospital
Ji Weizhi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, dean of the Primate Translational Medicine Institute of Kunming University of Science and Technology
Winner of the C.C. Tan Life Science Award for International Cooperation:
Paul Nurse, a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine; a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Academician of the American Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Winners of C.C. Tan Award for Clinical Medicine:
Ma Jun, Executive Deputy Director of Cancer Prevention and Control Center, Sun Yat-Sen University
Lu Qianjin, executive director of Dermatology Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Liang Tingbo, Party Secretary, Professor, Chief Physician and doctoral supervisor of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Winners of C.C. Tan Life Science Award for Industrialization:
Yang Dajun, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Ascentage Pharma
Yang Xiaoming, chief scientist and chief engineer of Sinopharm Group, director of the State Key Laboratory of Innovative Vaccine Research and Development for New Emerging Infectious Diseases
Winners of C.C. Tan Life Science Award for Innovation:
Wang Hongmei, a researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology
Ye Lilin, Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Military Immunology, School of Basic Medicine, Army Military Medical University
Bai Fan, researcher and full professor with School of Life Science, Biomedical Frontier Innovation Center, Peking University
Liu Chenli, researcher and vice president of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Li Dali, Director of the Department of Life Medicine, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Director of Shanghai Gene Editing and Cell Therapy Frontier Science Base
Xiao Junyu, Associate Professor, Dean of School of Life Science, Peking University; Researcher with Peking University - Tsinghua Center of Life Science
Wang Sheng, a researcher with the Innovation Center of Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chen Zhucheng, a professor at Tsinghua University
Jiang Changtao, Vice Dean of the School of Basic Medicine, Peking University
Gao Pu, a researcher with Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
C.C. Tan Life Science Awards
(Official website of C.C. Tan Life Science Development Foundation)
In 2008, the centenary birthday of Mr. C.C. Tan was celebrated, when the C.C. Tan Life Science Awards was established.
Mr. C.C. Tan is one of the founders of modern genetics in China and an outstanding scientist and educator in modern China. He established China’s first genetics major, the first institute of genetics, and the first academy of life sciences.
The purpose of this award is to uphold Mr. Tan’s dedication to the cause of life science, promote the industrialization of life science research achievements, and encourage Chinese life science workers to keep innovating.
The C.C. Tan Life Science Awards has now become the life science award with the highest level in China.
