"Although I have seen this paper more than once, every time I read it, the feeling is still very different, and in fact, until now, I can't believe that a paper that can create a genre was written by a first-year undergraduate student. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Professor Cai's voice was so soft that it gently broke the silence in the conference room.

Yang Rui clearly heard the obvious exhalation sound.

The pressure of collective silence is still very huge.

Yang Rui twisted his waist lightly and said, "I can't believe it either." ”

A few chuckles rang out, and on this serious occasion, it was a joke.

Professor Cai nodded slightly and said with a smile: "There is no fluke in success, how you did it, we actually see it." When you first applied for the school fund, the article you came up with was "The Production and Damage Mechanism of Oxygen Free Radicals", and there was a better one, I remember it was "The Molecular Mechanism of Voltage Gating in Sodium and Potassium Channels". ”

"Yes. I didn't expect you to remember. "Yang Rui almost forgot his name.

Professor Cai smiled and said, "I only read the name before the meeting. ”

The room burst into laughter. The title requirements of the paper are very clear, that is, use keywords to explain what you are writing, emphasizing accuracy and logic, which makes it difficult for the average person to remember the full name.

Even Yang Rui can't remember all the names of his papers now, let alone others.

Tang Zhong took the opportunity to speak: "The first time I read "The Generation and Damage Mechanism of Oxygen Free Radicals", I still feel that the knowledge is outdated, and "The Molecular Mechanism of Voltage Gating in Sodium and Potassium Channels" is very insightful. ”

Professor Cheng Shi, who was named, smiled.

Yang Rui nodded to him gratefully, he didn't know anything about it before.

Professor Cai smiled with a disguised smile: "We also have limited funds, besides, at that time, who could have guessed that Yang Rui actually killed the molecular mechanism of the potassium channel all the way......"

"Peking University Zhao Zilong. Professor Wang Yong, who has always been optimistic about Yang Rui, praised it very interestingly.

Dean Liu followed closely and said with a smile: "Kill seven in and seven out on the sodium and potassium slope." ”

The allusion of the Three Kingdoms once again caused a gentle laugh, which made the conference room harmonious and harmonious, and it also proved that the laughter of scholars is indeed low enough. There's no way, after all, academic jokes are a bit of a threshold, and there is a lack of jokers who specialize in it, unlike stock market jokes, listening to hundreds and eighty of them a day, it's easy to improve the laughter.

Without waiting for Yang Rui to react, Professor Cai continued: "The ...... I admire the most"

He solemnly and emphasized, used the word "admiration", paused for a while, and said again: "Yang Rui, what I admire most about you is that you can and are willing to raise your own funds to do research, I thought you were a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, but I didn't expect to let you do it, you are a tiger descending the mountain." ”

Yang Rui touched his head and smiled: "Luck." ”

"It's a fluke. Professor Cai put his expression serious this time and said, "This time I let you do it, we can naturally recall the process with a smile, but you haven't thought about what will happen if you fail?"

Silence fell back in the room.

Messy scientific research can be very easy, but scientific research that aspires to success can become very cruel.

Sometimes, running towards success means entering a world that is so cruel that it is powerless.

And the most common cruelty is the cruelty of scientific research funding.

Scientific research cannot be done without scientific research funds, and the scientific researchers in New China, who have experienced poverty and whiteness, know this very well. Of course, in the government's propaganda, there are indeed some scientific researchers who have made great achievements with very little funding, but it is like winning the lottery, it is possible nationwide, but it is never guaranteed.

Ten years ago, Professor Tao Qimin of Peking University tried China's first hepatitis B vaccine on himself because he couldn't get hundreds of thousands of gorillas. And the reason why they need a trial vaccination is because they have already made a hepatitis B vaccine, and they only need the last step of the trial to make the vaccine that China needs the most at that time.

However, they didn't get the gorilla after all.

It is hard to imagine what kind of mood Professor Tao Qimin was in that he chose to inject himself. Despair may be too heavy, but hope is too light.

It may not be a deliberate decision, but it certainly wasn't a spur of the moment. Because Tao Qimin had two children, she told the two children about it, but "the two children are still young and don't understand anything."

It's not that there is no choice, no one will risk a lifelong infectious disease and give themselves a shot.

As for the management at the time, there may be plenty of reasons for not giving Tao Qimin the gorillas he needed. Maybe it's because he's busy with other things, maybe it's because of his lack of ability, maybe it's because he doesn't trust Tao Qimin......

Since the world's top stars could also kick off a penalty, it's no surprise that the researcher missed out on the goal.

There are thousands of reasons for failure, but only success will be praised.

Successful Yang Rui will get the opportunity to publish a paper in "Cell", but what about Yang Rui who fails?

"Did the Sinovel lab that provided you with the funds have any requirements?" Professor Cai guessed as a matter of course, and said, "If you have any problems, you can put them forward, and we will help you solve them." ”

Everyone in the conference room nodded and looked at Yang Rui.

"It's just a normal scientific research contract, and the other party took a fancy to the technology I made for coenzyme Q10, so they provided me with funds, but fortunately I did a good job, so I got a second fund. After all, Yang Rui is young and in the excitement of success, which is not the same as the feeling of Professor Cai and others.

Tang Zhong thought that he couldn't wipe his face, and hurriedly said: "Yang Rui, Professor Cai is a member of the department, even if it is a commercial contract, he can help, if you have difficulties, just say it." ”

Wang Yongye said: "We all say, you can't shed blood and tears, you have made results, this is a good thing, the other party is also an investment, don't feel indebted to them." ”

They felt that Yang Rui was understatement. The University of California, Berkeley is one of the top 10 universities in the world, with almost the top ranking in biology, but even the professors in such top universities, after losing millions of dollars, are completely depressed.

For a young person like Yang Rui, any financier will have all sorts of restrictions. Defeat is miserable, but sometimes victory is miserable.

Ordinary Chinese people don't understand the funding plan, and how can the professors here not understand it.

Professor Cai said again: "Don't worry, you are from our Peking University, and Peking University will not let you suffer." ”

"Thank you, Professor Cai, it is indeed a good cooperation plan, and it is a success now, and there are no sequelae. Yang Rui was slightly moved.

Professor Cai was able to say this in front of everyone, which really reassured him.

Although before the publication of the paper in "Cell", various problems still existed, and Peking University did not put it forward so solemnly, which was a little snobbish, but Yang Rui understood it very well.

Because before the paper was published, before the research was successful, some people knew that it was poisonous wine, and they would rather drink it.

At least you have the funds to drink the poisoned wine, at least you can break the boat, win or survive, defeat or die, it is better than any project that slips through the cracks of your hands.

In the past few years, most Chinese researchers did not share in the dividends of successful research, such as Qian Xuesen, who famously built the atomic bomb and received a total of 10 yuan in prize money, in other words, if the research failed, his prize was only 10 yuan less. That is, after entering the 80s, the tide of scientific researchers brought victory red envelopes to researchers.

Because of this, the capital poison of the early 80s was not ostracized.

Yang Rui's willingness to drink poisonous wine is Yang Rui's own business, Peking University can't care about it, and there is no need to care about it, it can even be said that Yang Rui has the ability to find poisonous wine, it is not easy, how many people want to find poisonous wine and can't find it.

And Yang Rui has now made unexpected achievements, and Professor Cai took the initiative to hand over the antidote, which is not only rare, but also respects his choice.

Tang Zhong carefully asked Yang Rui about the details of the contract, and Yang Rui answered them one by one, of course, his version is based on the contract he signed with Huang Mao and others, which belongs to the slightly harsh contract model in later generations and now slightly lenient.

Professor Cai and others listened carefully, and several professors who had dealt with foreigners also made suggestions.

After saying this, the conference room gradually fell silent again.

Yang Rui looked at both sides and thought: It seems that the mystery is about to be solved, and I don't know what Professor Cai wants to do when he gathers everyone.

The most likely thing is to cooperate in the project of cloning mutant genes to analyze potassium channels, and Yang Rui and they made one, but there are more than ten hundred genes that determine potassium channels, and the first few will be able to be listed in top journals nine times out of ten.

This is also the main reason why Yang Rui's papers can occupy the most space in the same issue, although top journals require groundbreaking research, but pioneering like Yang Rui is almost first-class.

Next, researchers who can do the missing and fill in the gaps, and then be able to appear in "Cell", the treatment will be different from Yang Rui's paper treatment, and then do the paper of potassium channel analysis, it will be very difficult to get on "Cell".

Of course, when most of the potassium channel genes have been tossed and discovered, the papers that have been made with more time and money may also be republished in top journals, which is like the retro style of the fashion industry, which seems to be regular and irregular.

In fact, what kind of research is groundbreaking and then published in top journals is a bit like the fashion industry in itself. Before Yang Rui's paper was officially published, everyone felt that there was an opportunity, but no one could say for sure that his paper would be published.

It's like a designer who has made a diamond-shaped flower style that many people love, but no one can say whether he can show it in Paris Milan.

But on the other hand, once the designer showed off in Paris Milan, the diamond-shaped floral style was the undisputed new fashion, like a groundbreaking paper that established groundbreaking research once it was published in a top journal.

At this stage, it is the latter that determines the former, and the followers who follow, as long as the speed is fast enough and the quality is good, can definitely get on the top stage.

However, after five or ten years, after the precipitation of time, the followers tend to disappear with the wind, and the original creators will re-establish their status with their own works.

For papers, a high number of citations will be the most basic compliment.

Now, Yang Rui's paper has just been published, and researchers from all over the world are basically at the same level in the study of potassium channels.

After all, Yang Rui's dissertation is not a meticulous description and explanation, and the complex process during the period will still consume a lot of money and time for the latecomers.

If they continue to cooperate with Yang Rui on the study of potassium channels, they may even rush to publish another paper before the first follower appears.

Before this, Huang Mao and Tu Xian had similar thoughts, but they didn't have funds in their hands.

But in this conference room, there are not a few professors in independent laboratories, and even with Yang Rui's paper, it is easier for them to apply for funding, which is somewhat humorous.

Just when Yang Rui was thinking nonsense, Professor Cai looked at everyone and said unexpectedly: "Yang Rui, are you willing to lead an independent laboratory?"

"What!" Yang Rui turned his head for more than ten minutes, but he really didn't expect this result.

The independent laboratory in the university is not for fun, it is really independent, especially before 2000, the system is not perfect, having an independent laboratory, it is like obtaining a fief, in addition to the incomplete political rights, financial personnel and other aspects are relatively independent, unless it is a thunderbolt from the sky, otherwise it is a small kingdom in the school.

It can be said that having an independent laboratory is a lifelong pursuit of Chinese researchers.

Generally speaking, it can be said that it is a success to be able to lead an independent research laboratory after a lifetime of pursuit.

Professor Cai just smiled, but did not explain the meaning of an independent laboratory, and said, "The professors and associate professors here today either have their own independent laboratories or work in some independent laboratory, and you can pick one or two people to join your laboratory. Of course, you pick others, others pick you, you have to show some real skills to attract others to join. ”

Yes, not only do most associate professors not have independent laboratories, but most professors do not have independent laboratories, but those at the associate professor level may work in the independent laboratories of associate academicians, while those at the professor level may work in the independent laboratories of academicians. In addition, there are always some professors and associate professors who are out of the scientific circle, and now they are all keeping their eyes open to see if there is any good luck bumping into.

Yang Rui didn't have time to be shocked, tried to calm down, and asked, "Can professors and associate professors be?"

"If you choose a professor, you should jointly set up an independent laboratory, and your project must be satisfactory to the professor. If you choose an associate professor, you will either co-establish an independent laboratory or he will assist you, depending on how your project is. "Professor Cai obviously didn't have a whim, but a long design.

At this time, not only to fight for guts, but also to fight for Yang Rui's accumulation, if he can get a "cell" level project, naturally someone is willing to condescend, if he can't get it, at least he can do a few more sets of potassium channel projects, brush a few top journal papers.

As far as the level of domestic scientific research is concerned, an independent laboratory can brush a top journal in three or five years, which is enough.

And Yang Rui's own strength will also determine whether he really leads the laboratory, or is a puppet of the laboratory leader, or simply becomes the mascot of the laboratory.

In the conference room, everyone was full of laughter.

Yang Rui's little heart was pounding: This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

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