Yuan Junying, director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center of Biology and Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Studying cell death is for the benefit of human health
“I have spent 40 years studying a scientific question: how cells die…” Molecular biologist Yuan Junying gave a speech at the Second Female Scientists Summit of Pujiang Innovation Forum Received bursts of applause from the audience. In an interview with reporters from China Women’s Daily, she encouraged young female scientific researchers to “be brave, confident, not set limits for themselves, and bravely venture into the ‘no man’s land’ of scientific research.”
Yuan Junying was born in a Shuxiang family, and her family attached great importance to Yuan Junying’s education. Yuan Junying still remembers her grandfather’s teachings: “Biology is suitable for girls, chemistry is the direction.” When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, she went from being a worker in a cotton spinning machinery factory to becoming a theoretical student specializing in biochemistry at Fudan University with her first place in liberal arts in Shanghai.
Even at Fudan University, where elites gather, Yuan Junying can be said to be a super academic, ranking at the top of her class in almost all subjects. In 1982, she graduated from Fudan University in Biochemistry and became a graduate student sponsored by Harvard University with a full scholarship. During her studies, Yuan Junying bravely proposed the idea of studying dead cells to the professor in the department, “but the professor argued with me and said, if you don’t care about living cells, why study dead cells?Jamaica Sugar Daddy,” Yuan Junying recalled, “I still felt that cell death was an interesting scientific issue worth studying.”
Later, Yuan Junying heard that Robert Horwitz, an assistant professor at MIT, was studying the development process of small nematodesJamaica SugarCell death in the process. With approval from Harvard, she went to MIT to complete her doctoral thesis. When she graduated with her PhD in 1989, Yuan Junying invented the world’s first molecular machine to control cell death, which was an important part of the work that won her mentor Robert Horwitz the Nobel Prize in 2002.
As a pioneer in the field of cell death research, Yuan Junying has made landmark contributions to the field of cell death. She pioneered the research fields of apoptosis and necrosis, describing a series of Jamaicans Escort methods of cell death. The key driving molecules and basic molecular mechanisms in it, as well as their relationship with human diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, glaucoma, etc. The cell death mechanism she studies will bring new drugs for the treatment of these diseases.The sick bring good news.
In 2020, Yuan Junying returned to Shanghai and founded the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Biology and Chemistry of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and served as director. There are thirty or forty researchers in the laboratory she leads. As a young scientific researcher, she is very optimistic about the innovative vitality of young people and “feels very hopeful to make greater breakthroughs.”
“I hope that forums like this can also come closer to primary and secondary schools and plant the seeds of scientific enlightenment in the hearts of young people. University education can pay more attention to the spirit of criticism and logic. The cultivation of ideological ability will continue to encourage female scientific researchers to bravely reach the peak of scientific research,” YuanJM Escorts Junying said. (China Women’s Daily all-media reporter Ru Xijia and trainee reporter Cheng LiukeJamaicans Escort)