She is the youngest female doctoral supervisor in Princeton and Tsinghua University, once won the title of 'National Young Scientist' in the United States, and is the most reluctant female scientist in the United States to let go.
Overcoming the world problems that have plagued global biologists for nearly 50 years, when she became famous, she returned to the United States because of the controversy of academicians, and she is Yan Ning, an academician of the American Academy of Sciences that we are going to talk about in this issue.
On May 7, 2017, Yan Ning, who is already forty years old, is full of exhaustion in her eyes, the airport is full of people, and now she wants to say goodbye to the motherland, ten years ago she returned here to applaud and flowers, ten years later she left here but no one said goodbye, she deeply loved the country, but finally she could only quietly leave.
In fact, before she decided to leave China, Princeton University in the United States had sent her invitations many times, but she had not agreed, and wanted to stay at Tsinghua University to complete her research, until the end of the research and the handover of everything, she agreed to the invitation to become a tenured chair professor in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University, and returned to her former alma mater to do her favorite research.
Yan Ning is studying
In 2007, Yan Ning, a newborn calf, had won the Young Scientist Award in North America and successfully graduated from Princeton University for postdoctoral research, but at that time, her heart was still thinking of returning to the embrace of her motherland.
Yan Ning was born in Zhangqiu, Shandong In 1977, she has been serious and studious since she was a child, and has a great interest in biology, after seeing Yan Ning's extraordinary talent, her parents planned the future for Yan Ning early and wanted her to become a doctor who treats diseases and saves people.
In 1996, Yan Ning lived up to expectations and was admitted to Tsinghua University, but did not follow his parents' ideas to study medicine, but chose the major of biological sciences and technology, the reason for which is even more ironic, but it is precisely for this reason that we later saw Yan Ning, who shines in the field of life sciences.
However, Yan Ning's initial enrollment results were not ideal, Yan Ning, who chose life sciences, did not understand this major, and even dropped to 67 points at one point, although this did not hang up the subject, but for Yan Ning,Corp. Such a proud son of heaven, it was also a heavy blow.
After this incident, Yan Ning devoted herself to study more seriously, and successfully obtained a bachelor's degree four years later, and then went to the United States to study at Princeton University in 2000, and met Professor Shi Yigong, who is a big man in the international biological community and her most respected teacher.
Yan Ning, who has a very stubborn and strong personality, often quarreled with Shi Yigong because of the lack of progress in the experiment, and Shi Yigong discovered her shortcomings of opportunism, but at the same time saw the talent contained in her, 'scientific research pursuit can not tolerate a little speculation' is Professor Shi's teaching to Yan Ning.
Princeton University
Yan Ning, who was still very impetuous, humbly accepted the teachings of her mentor and began to calm down to study, since then her life path has opened a plug-in mode, first of all, the major experiments have been successful, and then there are professional papers emerging in an endless stream, which can be described as an aura plus body, a crown and a crown, a moment of immeasurable scenery, fame has increased greatly.
Originally stronger than her classmates were far behind her, academic success, but also gave Yan Ning a lot of confidence, so that her position for herself more and more clear, in 2004, Yan Ning in the United States to obtain a doctorate in molecular biology from Princeton University, in order to continue their own research path.
In 2005, she won the Young Scientist Award in North America, which means that her research career has taken to a higher level, and in 2007, she gave up her research career in Meiru Zhongtian and resolutely chose to return to China and was hired as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University School of Medicine.
Yan Ning was only 30 years old that year, and she was the youngest female doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University and Princeton University. For her choice, Princeton University in the United States is very incomprehensible, such a talented female doctoral supervisor actually gave up a great future and high salary, returned to China with nothing, which made it difficult for Americans to understand and tried to keep her. But at that time, Yan Ning only wanted to contribute to the motherland.
With such lofty ambitions, Yan Ning was hired as the youngest professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. Yan Ning's return was initially criticized, but a young woman became a doctoral supervisor, and many people did not care about Yan Ning.
Let's talk
In order to break the world's prejudices, Yan Ning led his team to achieve good results from the eve of returning to China, and in 2011, Yan Ning became an outstanding young scientific and technological worker and received funding from the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund. These grants helped Yan Ning move to a broader platform and won the Title of Young Women Scientist Award in 2012.
In 2014, because of the outstanding achievements of her team in the world for the first time in the world to analyze the three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter glut1, she was able to successfully enter the 'Yangtze River Plan'.
The following year, Yan Ning made another breakthrough in the field of research: obtaining a super-high-resolution structure of glut3 binding substrates and inhibitors with more conformations, thus clearly revealing the great achievement of the molecular basis of glucose transmembrane transport, a fundamental cellular process.
The results of this research have made Yan Ning famous all over the world, because this is a problem that biologists have studied for more than fifty years, so many predecessors have painstakingly studied in this line, and have not achieved any results, but now they have been cracked by a female scientist who has graduated only seven years ago, which makes people not shocked. How can people not be proud of this?
Yan Ning's research at Tsinghua University has won yan ning a number of international awards, including the Sackler International Biophysics Award, the Young Scientist Award of the International Protein Society, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Progress Award, which has ushered in the peak moment of her scientific research.
Yan Ning
Yan Ning's outstanding achievements in life sciences once triggered a hot discussion in the biological research community, and also greatly broadened the horizons of subsequent life scientists, and in 2016, he was named "Star of Chinese Scientists" by American Magazine.
In September of the same year, Yan Ning participated in the CCTV "Let's Talk" program as a guest, in 2017 Yan Ning was named the 'Impact China' 2017 Science and Technology Person of the Year, other large and small awards and countless honorary titles, in this decade Yan Ning can be described as a halo plus, the glory is incomparable, she is destined to stand at the top of the pyramid.
And as of 2018, Yan Ning has published 59 professional academic papers during the period of life science research in China, of which 22 have been published in the more famous international journals "Nature", "Science" and "Cell".
At the age of 40, Yan Ning's contributions and achievements in this field cannot be ignored at all, and the topic of herself has always been high in the world, she not only has wisdom, but also beauty, and is a well-deserved woman who combines beauty and talent.
Yan Ning is a goddess of scientists among many, and is an example for teenagers who are also interested in life sciences to worship and learn from.
However, at the peak of Yan Ning's scientific research path, there were also factors of instability: an invitation letter from Prince's Mind Mind Ton University in the United States was delivered to her.
In 2017, Princeton University's desire to award Yan Ning a tenured professorship was confirmed by Tsinghua University, but she herself did not accept the invitation at the beginning, and soon after, Yan Ning's name appeared on the candidate list of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and she became the youngest candidate for academician that year, but in the end she regretted not being elected.
Therefore, there are rumors that Yan Ning only accepted the invitation of Princeton University after losing the election. Even resigned to go to the United States after losing the election to the academician, so is this really the case?
Awards ceremony
Yan Ning's acceptance of the invitation of Princeton University in the United States was highly controversial as soon as it was confirmed, causing an uproar in the academic community, and after malicious rendering by uninformed people, the harsh words such as 'traitor', 'negative gas runaway' and 'white-eyed wolf' were suddenly pasted on Yan Ning.
Ms. Yan Ning said in the program "Let's Talk": Because of the study of her own discipline, she is very curious about life, the more she tries to understand life, the most she talks with her friends is also about the topic of life, and for life, old age, illness and death or other, she does not think much about it. In fact, Yan Ning chose the United States only to have more choices in scientific research and to start a new journey in a new environment.
In 2017, Yan Ning, then forty, flew to the United States, and even after leaving, she was still an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University, and in 2019, Yan Ning was elected as a foreign member of the American Academy of Sciences. But she never thought of changing her nationality, and she has always been a Chinese national.
Ms. Yan Ning is already at a height that ordinary people cannot reach, her achievements, her honors, her own rich knowledge, and understanding of things have reached a realm beyond reality.
Scientists have their own unique vision to see the world, Ms. Yan Ning is different from ordinary people, what she pursues is no longer the unilateral superficial things such as matter.
Ms. Yan Ning's glorious achievements and major breakthroughs in the ten years since her return to China will not disappear because of her departure.