The list of the 4th "Scientific Exploration Award" was announced, and the three of Xiamen University were on the list

The fourth "Scientific Exploration Award" award list was announced yesterday. The 50 young scientists were on the list, and there were 3 people in Xiamen University. Each winner will receive a total of 3 million yuan in 5 years and can freely control the use of bonuses.

Xiamen University's award -winning scientists are: Professor Zhou Dawang of Xiamen University School of Life Sciences, Professor Li Jianfeng of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/School of Chemistry and Chemistry of Xiamen University, and Professor Hou Xu of the School of Chemistry and Chemical and Chemical and Chemical and Chemical Sciences of Xiamen University. In addition to the three people, a total of five professors from Xiamen University have won the "Scientific Exploration Award".

On November 9, 2018, Tencent announced that the Tencent Foundation will invest 1 billion yuan to start funding the "Scientific Exploration Award". Each year, 50 youth technology will be selected in the nine areas of basic science and cutting -edge core technologies each year. Worker. The requirements of the selection rules must be a young science and technology worker who work in mainland China, 45 years old and below.

There are a lot of prizes in this award. Each winner will receive funds of RMB 600,000 a year for 5 consecutive years to encourage young people to explore without any heart.

According to the review committee, five scientists stood out this year and became the first winners in the field of medical science in the "Science Exploration Award", one of which was Professor of Xiamen University Zhou Dawang.

Among the three awards, Li Jianfeng and Hou Xu were both "post -80s".

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Why did they win?

Xiamen University officials released three award -winning scientists yesterday. Although the three engaged in different fields of research, they have common points: published in the top international scientific magazines, scientific research results awards, etc.

Zhou Dawang: Regulate the regeneration of the liver

Xiamen University said yesterday that Professor Chow Taiwang focused on how the HIPPO signaling pathway was regulated by the HIPPO signal pathway for a long time to regulate the scientific issues of liver size and the beginning of the tumor.

In a vernacular, Chow Tai Wang studies the size maintenance function of organs such as the liver -if you donate the liver after you donate the liver, it seems that it has a memory function as much as possible. However, if liver disease, it loses this function and grows messy, this disorderly growth will eventually lead to cancer.

The role of Chow Tai Wang's basic research is: if you figure out which mechanisms in the cells cause liver regeneration, then you can target the drugs to regulate the liver regeneration, just like a "switch" and damage to the liver. Or the old liver is in a weak state, and it can be activated to promote liver cell proliferation and regeneration, and restore its strong regeneration function. All in all, these studies can also be used for the prevention and treatment of liver cancer.

Zhou Dawang graduated from the Department of Chemistry of the Xiamen University in the Department of Chemistry. After years of studying and studied, he joined Xiamen University in 2011.

Li Jianfeng: Shining myocardial infarction test to 6 minutes

The official introduction of Xiamen University shows that the Raman spectrum studied by Li Jianfeng is a high -end representation technology used for scientific issues. It looks very cold, but in fact, it is closely related to our lives. Jewelry, pesticide testing, drug measurement ... these seemingly "irrelevant" things can be done by Raman spectrum.

According to reports, in 2018, Li Jianfeng went to Changchun for a business trip, and the extremely cold weather at minus 20 degrees Celsius made him a myocardial infarction. After this "Escape in the Dead", Li Jianfeng began to think about his scientific research technology more in terms of public safety and life and health.

The golden rescue time of acute myocardial infarction is dozens of minutes. Before the treatment, you need to detect whether the patient is myocardial infarction. At present, the fastest detection method takes 15 to 20 minutes, but the Li Jianfeng team will test the Raman spectrum technology and myocardial infarction testing. Combining technology, speeding up the identification and judgment, shortening the detection time to 6 minutes, can leave precious rescue time for patients.

According to the data, Li Jianfeng graduated from Zhejiang University undergraduate and was a doctor of science at the Department of Chemistry at Xiamen University. In 2014, he was a professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of Xiamen University.

Hou Xu: Make the "liquid door" of science fiction a reality

The 39 -year -old Hou Xu has long been committed to the scientific and technical research of the bionic liquid -based material system. His research on the "liquid door control technology" in the field of multi -scale channel research in the world has made the "liquid door" of science fiction a reality.

The so -called "liquid door" is different from the solid -state door in traditional concepts. The liquid is used as a dynamic "door", that is, the functional liquid is stabilized in a porous membrane to achieve controlling and separation of the material. This emerging technology can play a very important role in the process of large -scale filtration and separation, such as sewage treatment, and "liquid door control technology" does not require consumption energy, which can save huge energy consumption required for traditional technology.

Hou Xu once said that science fiction movies are the source of his inspiration. In the American science fiction movie "The Gate of the Star", alien technology uses the gates of the fluid interstellar to distort the wormhole of time and space, and realize material transmission in an instant light. Although it is a science fiction film and television work, it is this concept that gives Hou Xu a more broad understanding of the form of the "door".

Hou Xu graduated from Sichuan University undergraduate and was sent to a PhD in Physics and Chemistry at the National Nannan Science Center. In 2016, Hou Xu came to Xiamen University to take office.

Xiamen Daily reporter Xun Yan

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