SCSIO Participated in the 4th Sino-US Round-Table Conference on Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
“The 4th Sino-US Round-Table Conference on Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery” was held in Changsha on July 16-20, 2010. SCSIO Director Si Zhang, Professor Changsheng Zhang and Professor Jianhua Ju were invited to attend.
“The Sino-US Round-Table Conference on Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery” which was set according to the mode of “Gordon Research Conference”, was held by both overseas Chinese affairs office of state council overseas expert consultative committee and Changsha people's government. The conference has became the most high grade and forefront of the meeting in the field of China chemical biology and the drug innovation, moreover is a platform which our country fetch in international elite to promote local economic and social development.
The theme of the conference is “Innovation of China, leadership of elite”. Many national experts of “Thousand people plan” from the CAS, universities or high technology enterprises with lots of famous experts and professors from foreign famed universities and research institutes processed comprehensive academic exchanges and thematic speeches. In this conference, many topics such as the incubation of national stratagem industry, how to integrate the nation development and overseas elite return for innovation, the rational developing way of innovative drug, were taken for more in-depth discussions.
Director Si Zhang, Professor Changsheng Zhang and Professor Jianhua Ju exchanged their opinions deeply with other experts and scholars. Professor Jianhua Ju was invited to give an expert speech on the conference titled “Discovery and biosynthesis of Bioactive Natrual Products from Marine Actinomycetes and Fungi”. He reported his research progress in marine microbial bioactive lead compounds, biosynthesis and their potential in drug innovation and development.
