Re-entering Cold Spring Harbor, Li Zheng had a feeling that time was changing, familiar buildings, familiar accents, and even the slanted plane tree next to him, Li Zheng had seen it thirty years later.
"Mr. Li, please, Mr. Watson is already waiting for you in the office." Li Zheng knew the person who led the way for him. Later, he was a doctoral supervisor at Stanford. Later, he gave up scientific research and entered the financial world. rise.
And now he is still a young scholar who has just entered the workplace. He is full of enthusiasm for scientific research and work. He looks at Li Zheng with a faint look in his eyes, an eighteen-year-old genius pharmacist, but any individual will be curious.
"Thank you." Li Zheng nodded his thanks.
Passing through a long corridor, the two stood in front of a mahogany door, and Ross stepped forward and knocked on the door.
A vigorous male voice came from the door, "Come in."
Ross led Li Zheng into the door.
Behind the door is a very spacious office. In front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows, there is a table that is four or five meters wide. It is full of various materials. There are several small blackboards scattered around the table. A lot of paper heads are fixed with magnets on it, and the paper heads are covered with various calculation formulas, molecular crystallization chemical formulas, etc.
Watson looked up. In 1986, Watson was not yet 60 years old. It was when a scholar's scientific research life was at its most brilliant. Zheng, with a big smile on his face.
Watson took off his glasses and stood up. "Hello, Lee, our genius pharmacist." He stretched out his right hand.
"Hello, Mr. Watson." Li Zheng also stretched out his hand.
Ross greeted Watson and exited the door while closing the door.
"Mr Watson, I'm sorry to bother you."
Watson spread his hands, "Mr. Li, I think you must have something important."
Seeing Watson's interested appearance, Li Zheng didn't go around the corners, and directly took out the thick pile of information.
"Mr. Watson, this is the experimental data of my recent project. I hope you can take ten minutes to look at it."
Watson raised his eyebrows, "Experimental data? This is something that should be kept secret. Is it okay to show it to me?"
"The junior asks the senior, is there any problem?" Li Zheng said with a smile.
A smile flashed in Watson's eyes, he took the information from Li Zheng's hand, put on his glasses and slowly began to look.
This stack of materials includes Li Zheng's ideas and experimental records. Li Zheng's ideas are relatively jumpy, but Watson can keep up with it very easily.
The more he looked, the brighter the light in his eyes. Before 1986, scattered gene work had been carried out. Geneticists shouted every day that genes are the essence of human life. After identifying genes, we can understand the nature and mechanism of diseases. The fundamental way to defeat the disease.
But what if genes are used to overcome disease? But no one can tell, which is why geneticists have been shouting for so long, but genetic engineering has not been officially launched.
Because, no one invests in a project without seeing results.
And Li Zheng's experimental record, although only a semi-finished product, allowed Watson to clearly see the effect that the genome project would bring, and visualized the direction of the human genome project.
He was confident that, if the experiment was recorded, he could persuade the officials of the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Medicine, who did not see a rabbit but a hawk, to push the project forward as soon as possible.
"I saw me when I was young in you." Watson looked at Li Zheng with burning eyes, and there was a kind of sympathy in his eyes. He was a genius, and so was the young man in front of him. There are many people who are called geniuses in the world, but there are very few geniuses who continue to create miracles like Watson, who reached the top at the age of twenty-five until now.
And he had a hunch that the young scholar in front of him was like him.
"This is a groundbreaking idea, and it provides a new direction for us to conquer gene mutation diseases. Li, you are amazing," Watson took off his glasses and said sincerely.
"Forty percent of this experiment has been completed. As long as the mutated genes corresponding to non-small cell lung cancer patients are found, and the specific molecular targets required to inhibit tumor growth can be targeted, cancer cells can be killed. Am I right? ?" Watson said.
"Yes, Mr. Watson. To do this, we must first have a correct understanding of human genes. So I hope to join the Human Genome Project." Li Zheng's right hand under the table has been slowly clenched, but his face is still the same A calm expression.
Watson smiled, he finally understood why the young man in front of him came, it turned out that he was waiting for him here.
"Because of Du Bock's proposal?" Watson came out from behind the table, "Are you from Huaguo? Yes, I heard that you are teaching at a university in Huaguo. Are you interested in coming to Cold Spring Harbor?" Watson answered nonsense.
The Human Genome Project is a great project, and Gilbert and Berg had contacted him a month ago, and they were very excited to describe their vision for this great project, and they thought it would be a loading Projects in human history will never be less significant than the moon landing project and the Manhattan atomic bomb project. This will be a feat that will benefit all mankind.
Berg even declared to him excitedly, "The launch of the Human Genome Project will be a turning point in the history of mankind's struggle against diseases. At this point, mankind will take the initiative in this battle of life. In this fight against disease, mankind will finally Win!"
Watson was acutely aware that this would be a great project, and he promised Gilbert and Berger a meeting of experts on the Human Genome Project in Cold Spring Harbor.
But this is only a tentative discussion between the three of them over the phone. Even the list of the so-called expert group has not been decided yet. How would this Professor Li Zhengli know
Watson, of course, would not have thought that the Professor Li in front of him was a future man from thirty years later. He only thought of one possibility. This young scholar with great talent in pharmacy, like them, is as concerned about this subject as they are. The project has a high sense of identity, and they are like-minded people.
Scientists always have a sense of mission, and this sense of mission makes them have a special favor for people who have the same ideal. When they find that this person with the same ideal has already walked on the road of realizing the ideal, this favorability degree reached the peak.
Watson took a deep look at Li Zheng, then stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Li Zheng, next month, there will be a meeting on the Human Genome Project in Cold Spring Harbor. I think you will be interested."
When Li Zheng heard the words, his whole body trembled. He suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and tried his best to keep his face calm.
"My honor." Li Zheng and Watson shook hands for the second time. This time, both of them felt the strength from the other's hands.
With Watson's promise, Li Zheng flew back to Huajing the next day.
The establishment ceremony of the Huaqing Award is in full swing. After discussion with everyone, Zhao Depei decided to announce the winners of the first Huaqing Award at the establishment ceremony of the Huaqing Award, and issue a trophy.
Zhao Depei hasn't closed his mouth in the past few days. Huaqing's world ranking came out a week ago, ranking 258, a full 47 places higher than last year, although he knew in his heart that this was mainly due to the addition of scientific research results. There are a lot of points, which is because of Li Zheng's ninth laboratory, but so what, Li Zheng is their contract professor, and he hired them. letter of appointment.
"Li Zheng, you are finally back. In two days, the establishment ceremony of the Huaqing Award will be held. This is the award project book. Look, what needs to be improved." Zhao Depei saw Li Zheng, as if he had seen him for a long time. The missing relatives, this gaze is so gentle that it can almost drip out of water.
Li Zheng shivered. He touched his nose, took the project book from Zhao Depei, and flipped through two pages. The judges of the award randomly selected 12 key scholars from well-known universities such as Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huaqing University, and Yanda University to serve as the award, and 188 front-line key doctors were randomly selected from across the country in biomedicine. vote.
As for the selection method of the Literature Award, everyone debated for a long time, and finally decided to host the Chinese Department of Yan University.
"It's still nationwide..." Li Zheng sighed softly, and it turned out that he was a little too ambitious. Now Huaqing and even Huaguo can't afford an international award.
Zhao Depei understood what Li Zheng meant, he patted him on the shoulder, "The rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be taken step by step. One day, the Huaqing Award will go out of China and stand on the world stage."
Li Zheng closed the project book and nodded with a smile.
The establishment ceremony of the Huaqing Award was held on time a week later at the Great Hall of the People of China.
Magnificent pictures of Jiangshan Sheji, red velvet chairs with great characteristics of the times, waiters in black suits and white shirts pouring water well-trained in the spacious hall, the national flag of China on the stage is shining brightly, Li Zheng is not the first I came to the Great Hall of the People for the second time, but every time I came, I had a different feeling.
The first apprehension, the second nervousness, the third joy, the fourth calm, and the emotion this time.
He didn't live up to his comeback.
This time, Huajing attaches great importance to the establishment of the Huaqing Award. Not only was the ceremony held in the Great Hall of the People, but even the guests present were the Vice Premier of Hua.
The Great Hall of the People in the 1980s is not thirty years later. In this era, it will not be held in the Great Hall of the People unless it is not a major national meeting.
"Professor Li, you are one of the sponsors and founders of the Huaqing Award, please sit down."
Zhao Depei's secretary walked up to Li Zheng and whispered in his ear.
above? Li Zheng was dumbfounded, and when he saw the senior Hua Guo sitting in the center of the stage, he seemed a little stunned.
The vice premier seemed to have noticed Li Zheng's gaze, and nodded to him with a smile.
Li Zheng's hand on the armrest slowly loosened, "Okay."