Ma Yuting: "There is no dead end in scientific research"

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, July 8th.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shao Gong

In July of Midsummer, in the laboratory of the Suzhou Institute of System Medical Research, the Institute of Systems Medical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, researcher Ma Yuting was leading the team to strive to promote the research work.

In the past two days, she caught up with important experimental nodes. She shuttled through a laboratory and office across the corridor all day.

On the wall of the corridor, there was a introduction to Ma Yuting's research group. A word in the meantime was exciting: "Experiments are inevitably failed, but scientific research has no dead end, and people who are devoted to will always usher in Liu Danhua." Ma Yuting said that this is her working credentials Essence

Ma Yuting's relationship with scientific research began in middle school's strong interest in biology. The complex connection between the wonderful and natural phenomena fascinated her. On the occasion of the college entrance examination, the grandfather who suffered from the tumor died after multiple rounds of pain chemotherapy. Ma Yuting, who was empathized, secretly resolved: In the future, medical research will be done to find a way to treat tumors to reduce the pain of loved ones.

In 2005, Ma Yuting graduated from the University of Life Sciences of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He applied for the university's master's degree in immunology at the Tongji Medical College of the school and was admitted with his first professional grade. The unpopular tumor immune direction opened a new exploration.

In Paris, Ma Yuting worked for more than 80 hours a week. He desperately read the literature, arranged experiments densely, and thought hard to break through. In the end, she found key evidence of cell death regulating tumor immunity with solid data, published a series of high -level papers, applied for international patents, and obtained a doctorate degree in immunology in advance.

In 2015, Ma Yuting declined foreign work invitations and returned to China to join the Suzhou Institute of System Medical Research of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. She said: "I have to come back to serve my motherland after learning the ability. This is a matter of course."

Today, Ma Yuting is not only the assistant to the director of the institute and the director of the immune platform. As a doctoral supervisor, she also leads the young research team to continue the tumor immunity.

Colleagues and students say that Ma Yuting is full of energy every day and must be busy in seconds. Not only does it pay close attention to the cutting -edge progress in the field, but he can also put forward new ideas. The key experimental links often hold up the sleeves and do it with everyone. In a large number of laboratory data, the data that can be used in the end may not be one -tenth of all experimental results, but no matter what difficulties encounter, she insists on seeking truth from facts.

After repeated experiments, Ma Yuting's team found the "accomplice" of stress stress stress to inhibit tumor treatment effect -glucocorticoids, and found that stress stress affects the prognosis of tumor patients and potential treatment strategies. Cognitive gap.

Most of the existing tumor immune drugs and therapies are developed based on the target discovered by foreign scientists. Ma Yuting hopes to lead the team to explore more original targets and then develop innovative drugs. She said that with the strong support of the country, Chinese scientists can make more first -class results. Our research invests by one point, and the results are one point, and the pain of tumor patients can be less.

At present, her team has published more than 50 papers in the field of tumor immunity in high -level international magazines, and many scientific research results have obtained domestic and foreign patents.

In addition to busy scientific research, Ma Yuting put a lot of time to carry out popular science activities. She said that in order to achieve high -level technology self -reliance, we must pay attention to basic research and source innovation, and rely on the continuous efforts of generations. I very much hope to stimulate the curiosity of young people through science popularization activities, attract young people to get close to science, and devote themselves to scientific research.

At the end of the interview, Ma Yuting asked quietly: "Can I make an advertisement?" After listening to her request reporter, her "advertisement" was: "I hope more students apply for medical schools and join our team ","

[Editor in charge: Wang Mengmeng]

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