Chapter 40: Cold Spring Harbor
Well, Hu Wenhai was also surprised to meet Lori's version of Mirajovovich here.
Well, I take back my previous impression. Hu Wenhai looked at Milla Jovovich again, although this kid looks cute now, but the cool energy is already cold to the bone.
After accepting the apologies and thanks of Mao Mei and Milla Jovovich again, Hu Wenhai said goodbye to them and continued to march towards the Cordspring laboratory.
Many people may not be familiar with the name of the Coldspring Laboratory, but if it is replaced by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, many people may suddenly understand. And if we mention the greatest contribution of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to the world in the 90s, almost everyone with an education level above the level can't help but give a thumbs up.
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was almost the key to the beginning of the era of human genes. Since the 80s, its helmsman, James Dewey Watson, has been initiating a project to decipher the human genome. Between 1988 and 1993, he became the host of the third largest science project after the Manhattan and Apollo projects.
Before that, Watson had already won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 for proposing a model of the double helix of DNA.
One can imagine how great the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is to have Watson and be able to lead the Human Genome Project in the future.
But when it comes to Watson, Hu Wenhai is really a little unable to put the dichotomy on his head. In most people's minds, great scientists often seem to have a kind of "saint" aura.
For example, Einstein, Newton, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Yuan Longping, when these names are pronounced, there will be more or less respect. Of course, for Watson, who discovered the double helix structure of Dna, it must also be a high tribute to mankind.
But when it comes to character, Hu Wenhai's way of doing things is really a bit bad. said that he is not familiar with the world, he has a clear IQ, and his business ability as a subject leader is enough. can be said to be smart, but he has all kinds of outrageous and even despicable behaviors that ordinary people will not do.
If you really want to find a coordinate for him in history, this person probably, probably, maybe has a common language with Thomas Edison.
Watson is more like a willful genius who is spoiled by the world, always observing the world from his own perspective and height that is unique to ordinary people, and does not hesitate to do all kinds of things that challenge the bottom line of ordinary people.
For example, he has publicly claimed that black people are inherently inferior to white people in IQ, and he once swept laboratory scientists out of the house under the name of "fat I don't want to see him" (this is absolutely unbearable......
If this is just the willfulness of a genius scientist, then many of Watson's actions can indeed be described as despicable. For example, in the process of discovering the nDa double helix structure, he once obtained the results of her research without the knowledge of the client, Rosalyn Franklin, which had a crucial causal relationship with Watson's later conclusion of the DNA structure.
But after winning the Nobel Prize, Watson not only did not pay due respect to Rosalyn Franklin, but openly slandered her image and achievements in the book "Double Helix", and distorted her feud with Wilkins, another discoverer of DNA structure.
If this alone doesn't mean anything, the other Nobel Prize is a testament to his character.
The 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was again awarded to two scientists from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Philips Sharp and Richard Robert, for their work on the discovery of discontinuous genes.
However, this Nobel Prize was a complete mistake. The Chinese scientist Zhou Zhi, who was the main or important figure in the discovery of discontinuous genetic achievements, did not recommend the nomination because of Watson's prejudice, but Watson nominated two of his own protΓ©gΓ©s. And all this is only because Zhou Zhi was no longer in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at that time, and although she had worked in the United States for 28 years, she had never become an American citizen!
Zhou Zhi's response to the future was: "This is an irretrievable fact, and we can only wait for a scientific historian to discover the truth." β
Among them, it is so sour that people are really speechless!
But fortunately, the project that Hu Wenhai wants to commission research and development this time can only be said to be a small shrimp, and it can't be seen in the eyes of Watson, which is now in full swing.
And the one who came to receive him today was just a so-called "little boss" of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The so-called small boss is the project leader who manages an experimental direction for the laboratory leader, which is somewhat similar to the department manager in the company.
Watson is the pillar of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and he needs to consider the work of running projects and attracting investment. When he has decided on a research direction, he will break down his ideas into various fields, and then let the small bosses realize or test his ideas.
In the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, there are dozens of such small bosses, and they are really not high-profile figures. But of course, if you get it outside Cold Spring Harbor, each of them is also an elite with a good reputation.
If Watson is a Dharma body-level master, then how can these little bosses be regarded as a great grandmaster on location.
"Hu, you should know that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a non-profit organization, we are not those outside science and technology development companies, we are Cold Spring Harbor!" At this time, the little boss Andrew Zhengzheng waved his hand rhetorically, and looked at Hu Wenhai sitting on the sofa with a downward look.
However, I don't know why, Andrew's words were so firm in his ears, but they were automatically filtered into another content.
"People are ice clear and jade Oiran, only the prefect Bai Yunhang can get it, but it is not comparable to the small family that covers the door. β
Isn't it money?
Ahem......
Hu Wenhai coughed pretendedly, expelled this inexplicable thing from his mind, and said: "Mr. Andrew misunderstood, in fact, this is not a commissioned scientific research project, but a verification project. Because Cold Spring Harbor is a non-profit laboratory, I hope to be able to prepare and verify the actual effect of this new drug in my hands. β
"New medicine?" Andrew sat down when he heard Hu Wenhai's words, and asked calmly, "Can I ask, what kind of medicine is this?"
"It's a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor, and I have the chemical structure of this inhibitor on my hands. In terms of its pharmacological mechanism, it may have the effect of vasodilating to reduce the condition of angina patients. β
"A new heart drug? you've done research on it?" Andrew was clearly intrigued.
In fact, of course, it is impossible for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to be maintained entirely by state funding, and it is impossible to build the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory into a world-class medical laboratory with public funds alone. In the industrial chain of transforming basic scientific research progress into products, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is also well-known.
But as Andrew said, with the fame of Cold Spring Harbor, it is true that not everyone can cooperate with it.
From another point of view, fame is just fame, and even the world's top laboratories are also facing the problem of monetizing fame. Of all the collaborations, the most common approach used by Cold Spring Harbor Labs is to work with a large international pharmaceutical company to apply some kind of progress in their laboratory to the development of new drugs.
However, since it is an internationally renowned large or even multinational enterprise, the two sides will naturally inevitably wrestle over the question of who is in charge and who is secondary, and it is not easy to make such money. But in order to maintain the pressure, such a project cannot be without.
Among all the ways of cooperation, someone like Hu Wenhai who asks for a door is definitely the most comfortable one to make money. There is no need to develop new drugs, so naturally it will not involve too much R&D strength in Cold Spring Port. In fact, this kind of project to verify a new drug can be said to be the best way to realize the fame of the laboratory, which is only equivalent to endorsing the efficacy of this new drug.
If the drug is really effective, and it has passed the test of the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory, it is really harmless to the human body, or the side effects are acceptable, then you might as well promote it.
If there is a problem with the drug, then the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will also collect the money, and the things will come from and go back.
As for the problem that was discovered after it was launched on the market, it had nothing to do with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - the drug was not invented by us, nor was it operated by me, let alone applied my R&D results to do my?
At the end of the day, Cold Spring Harbor Lab is just providing a little bit of technical support!
"Well, then, you leave me a document on the details of this drug, and I'll talk to Mr. Watson. Andrew nodded faintly, indicating that he would seriously consider this matter.
Hu Wenhai happily took out a document from his bag, handed it to Andrew and said: "The information on this drug is here, and its industrial synthesis method will be realized by the Cold Spring Port Laboratory." You know that our pharmaceutical industry in China is still very backward, and in this regard, I think the American equipment is more trustworthy. β
"Haha, of course. Andrew smiled proudly: "I will give the information to Mr. Watson, as for the specific tariff ......"
"Three million dollars, as long as you sign the contract, you can pay it immediately!" Hu Wenhai said categorically.
"Okay, then I don't have a problem. Andrew shrugged his shoulders easily, picked up the information in his hand to say hello, and left on his own.
"What is this?" Watson, who was nearly sixty years old and still energetic, asked as he picked up the papers that Andrew had sent him from his desk and read them.
"It was the Chinese who wanted to develop a drug through our laboratory some time ago, and they thought that this type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitor could dilate blood vessels and reduce angina. β
"Will the Chinese also invent drugs?" Watson snorted coldly, threw the documents on the table that he had not read very carefully, and said impatiently: "This kind of small project does not need to let our scientists take action, I remember that there was not a Soviet exchange student this year? Just let that woman go, just can be wasted." β