Chapter Fifty-Eight: Reverse Digging People to Build Laboratories

Yang Zhou noticed the worry in President Hao's eyes, and said with a smile: "Principal rest assured, no matter what conditions are given abroad, I will not go abroad, nor will I go to other universities to build laboratories, I will stay in China forever, here are my roots!" ”

Hao Yu didn't expect Yang Zhou to give a direct promise.

However, they are all adults, and sometimes for the sake of profit, promises are bullshit, and he doesn't take it lightly.

Hao Yu's mood was still a lot better, patted Yang Zhou's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, neither the school nor the country will wronged you." ”

Yang Zhou's refusal was not unexpected by Mori Kazutoshi, and he offered to invite Yang Zhou to become an honorary professor at Kyoto University.

This time, Yang Zhou didn't refuse, because it was beneficial to Yang Zhou.

Becoming an honorary professor is just a name, but in this way, it will make Qingbei University a little bit of a wax.

Think about it, everyone at Kyoto University gives honorary professors, is Qingbei University embarrassed to let Yang Zhou be promoted step by step from teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, and professor?

Rules are sometimes meant to be broken.

Yang Zhou felt that Qingbei University probably wouldn't really wait for 1 year before mentioning him as a professor, and maybe he might be promoted to his position without exception, and it was not necessary to do it directly in one step.

Yang Zhou began to discuss academic issues with Kazutoshi Mori, especially about the use of transcription factors to modify proteins and eventually edit the gene code.

Sen and Jun are very excited, he has been studying cell gene proteins for many years, but there has not been much progress, and some directions proposed by Yang Zhou have given him a lot of inspiration.

"Professor Sen, in fact, we can jointly set up a laboratory, welcome you to come to Qingbei University, we can work together to study special proteins and achieve gene code editing!" Yang Zhou sent out an invitation.

After the principal finished translating, Yang Zhou said to the principal: "Principal, why don't you also invite Professor Sen to come to our school, he is the discoverer of HAC1 and the most authoritative expert, if he helps, it may not be long before the gene code can be programmed." ”

Hao Yu's eyes lit up, and he called him a good guy in his heart.

He hadn't thought of this just now, because he couldn't imagine that Mori and Jun would be willing to come to Huaguo.

To be honest, Qingbei University is not as good as Kyoto University at all, just look at the alumni award rankings and the top laboratories on campus.

There are 11 Nobel Prizes alone!

The world university rankings look like Qingbei University is ahead of Kyoto University, which can only be seen and not taken seriously.

Mori Kazutoshi is 63 years old and has long passed his prime.

His current job is not to conduct research in the field, but as a boss, leading other professors and doctoral students to conduct experiments, or acting as a large enterprise and ZF think tank.

Yang Zhou's invitation to come to Huaguo was something he didn't expect at all, but at this moment, Sen Hejun was really a little moved.

Because, Yang Zhou's proposal is too fragrant, if the idea that Yang Zhou just discussed with him can be realized, then he will definitely be able to win the Nobel Prize in his lifetime.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize last year, but he didn't win the prize, and Mori knew that he would not be able to win the Nobel Prize for his research on HAC1 in his life.

However, HAC1 has a second spring, and it can also be used for gene code editing and protein modification, so it will definitely win the Nobel Prize.

Yang Zhou pioneered genetic code and is the founder of this discipline.

Now Yang Zhou proposes to set up a joint laboratory, and the research thing is actually a gene code editing tool, similar to Cas9 technology.

The gene code editing tool is much more advanced than Cas9 to cut out a certain segment of the gene.

Yang Zhou and Hao Yu saw that Sen Hejun had a complicated expression, and they didn't speak for a long time, so they knew that there might be a play.

The two did not disturb Sen and Jun thinking, but exchanged words in a whisper.

"Yang Zhou, is the lab you are going to build related to gene code editing tools?" Hao Yu wondered.

"Related, I now know two routes, one is already about the eyebrows, it is relatively simple and fast, and the other is the reliance on transcription factors to modify proteins and then edit the gene code that I just discussed with Professor Sen, if Professor Sen can come to Qingbei University, it will not have much impact if he can't come."

"My next project is to modify the genetic code, modify hybrid rice, and create a new species, so that rice is similar to a big tree, and I still hope to put this research in the laboratory of Qingbei University." Yang Zhou said.

Hearing that Yang Zhou's next research direction turned out to be staple food, Hao Yu was very happy, nodded and said: "Okay, rice is good, if we can really improve like carrots, our country's land can be vacated a lot!" ”

"As long as you want to do research, ask people to give people money and money, although our school is not as rich as Kyoto University, we can still get millions of funds."

"The main reason is that some experimental instruments cost more money, and if Sen and Jun are willing to join, they can also let him contribute some funds." Yang Zhou said with a smile.

Just now he wooed Sen and Jun and asked him to come to Huaguo, in addition to responding to Sen and Jun poaching him, he also valued the resources behind Sen and Jun.

As a top scientist in the 90s, Kazutoshi Mori has long since become entrenched in the field of biology after so many years.

Countless biological research companies are related to him, and many top scientists who graduated from Kyoto University are also students of Kazutoshi Mori.

The influence of a long-term professor should not be underestimated.

Maybe a student is an executive of a Fortune 500 company, or maybe a student is a senior government official.

HAC1 is used for gene code modification, and Yang Zhou has no experience and grasp at all, which is a bit foolish.

Anyway, let's get people and money to China.

Sen Hejun didn't agree to Yang Zhou so easily, he thought about it for a long time, but still chose a safe route, and did not agree to come to Huaguo Qingbei University as a professor, and stayed in Huaguo for a long time.

However, they agreed to set up a laboratory together, and also agreed to be named an honorary professor of Qingbei University.

In this way, academic exchanges between the two universities will become more frequent and more in-depth in the future, such as the annual exchange of international students, which will be discussed slowly by the president and the president of Kyoto University in the future.

The joint establishment of the laboratory involves the ownership of future results.

In the end, the three of them deliberated for a long time and finally reached a consensus to establish a business laboratory.

Yang Zhou himself definitely did not pay, he took the shares with technology, accounting for 40% of the shares, Qingbei University provided the experimental site, and symbolically took out 1 million US dollars as the preliminary expenses of the laboratory accounted for 20% of the shares.

As for the experimental equipment, it was handed over to Mori Kazujun to solve, and he invested 10 million US dollars from the enterprise in the joint laboratory and purchased all the experimental equipment.

Many experimental instruments, in fact, are made in the foot basin, there are Sen and Jun, the price will be very cheap, some European and American experimental instruments need to be purchased at a large price, Yang Zhou does not have to worry about it.

In this way, the shares of this joint laboratory are 40% for Yang Zhou, 20% for Qingbei University, and 40% for the investment of Sen and Jun on behalf of the behind-the-scenes enterprises.

In addition, the laboratory is also a joint laboratory of Qingbei University and Kyoto University, and postdoctoral fellows can be sent to work in each other to solve the problem of lack of researchers.

The lab's first project, with an uncertain future, was the study of the gene code editor.

Yang Zhou was in a calm state of mind, because whether the gene code editor could succeed or not would have no impact on him, and he would quietly use the technology of the mysterious space to change the gene code.

The most important thing is the establishment of this laboratory, and the instruments needed for countless experiments can be used casually, and when the time comes, a symbolic fee will be given, and the results will still be Yang Zhou's.

At the next high-level meeting of the university, Hao Yu will discuss the establishment of another independent laboratory for Yang Zhou for hybrid rice research, which is the same as a normal state-owned laboratory, with funds fully allocated by the state, and the research results do not belong to Yang Zhou.

In addition to this laboratory, Hao Yu also met another small requirement of Yang Zhou.

That is, next to this laboratory, Yang Zhou will be given another laboratory, and Yang Zhou will be responsible for purchasing the equipment, which is Yang Zhou's independent laboratory, and will rely on this laboratory for future research on cancer plants and desert plants.

Yang Zhou didn't take advantage of the school, and he would pay rent every month, but the rent was very low.

The School of Life Sciences of Qingbei University has built a separate experimental building, and there are a lot of empty rooms, and the school has not lost anything.

The funds used by the Yangzhou Hybrid Rice Laboratory are all scientific research funds given by the state, and the school cannot actually use them alone, which is actually very understandable.

The 1 million U.S. dollars used by the Qingbei & Kyoto Joint Laboratory belongs to the small treasury funds of the school, which is an investment commercial laboratory, and the billions of scientific research funds allocated by the state every year are project funds for various national laboratories and professor laboratories, and the two sources of funds are different.

After all, Qingbei University has a lot of school enterprises, and the school is actually making money every year.

After sending Professor Mori and Jun away, Yang Zhou thought of the problem of selling carrot technology, and he could only ask the school for help.

He has to cash out more than 100 million yuan to have money to upgrade the system, plus to build a personal laboratory, the higher the better.

"Principal, I want to sell improved carrot technology, the colorful carrot security department has been approved, and now it can be commercialized." Yang Zhou said.

Hao Yu had long known that this scientific research achievement did not belong to the school, and there was no problem with the procedures, but when he heard Yang Zhou, he was puzzled: "Do you want the school to invest in you?" ”

"If the school is interested, of course, it can invest, but I hope to cash out a lot of money, if COFCO is interested or other central enterprises are interested, they can also participate, of course, I will also contact venture capital institutions, Guo Wentao is doing this, and there may be other social funds to participate at that time." Yang Zhou said.

Colorful carrots don't even have carotene, they are semi-finished products, and they are not particularly powerful black technology, if social funds can buy them at a high price, Yang Zhou doesn't mind selling them to outside companies.

Of course, it is best to buy it from a central enterprise or a school.

"Okay, I can't let you suffer, you let Guo Wentao evaluate the value of the technology, I will help you contact COFCO and other central enterprises, and I will also notify the school and the school enterprise to give a value assessment as soon as possible, and finally see who is willing to pay, if it is really not good, the school will set up a school enterprise, and you will not be at a loss." Hao Yu thought for a while and said.

He also probably knew what Yang Zhou was going to do when he was eager to cash out, after all, it would cost a lot of money to save a top-level laboratory alone.

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