Peking University participates in the construction of Huairou Science City, and the infrastructure project of three major projects of multi-modal cross-scale biomedical imaging facilities, Beijing Laser Acceleration Innovation Center, and Light Element Quantum Materials Cross-platform will be fully completed this year, and the Huaimi Medical Center, molecular imaging and medical diagnosis and treatment probe innovation platform are also being promoted. In the future, Peking University will build a new world to overcome key core technologies in Huairou Science City.
In the northeast of the city, across the two districts of Huairou and Miyun, a science city is rising from the ground, which is the centralized bearing place of the comprehensive national science center and one of the main platforms for Beijing to build an international science and technology innovation center "three cities and one district". Projects such as Peking University's multi-modal cross-scale biomedical imaging facility, Beijing Laser Acceleration Innovation Center, and light element quantum material cross-platform will be laid out and built here.
Huairou Science City
Multimodal cross-scale biomedical imaging facility
In contemporary society, people only need a mobile phone to replace professional camera photography and imaging. For microscopic cells in our bodies, multimodal cross-scale biomedical imaging facilities can achieve refined "photographic" imaging of them, and we will see them clearer and more thoroughly than ever before.
Multi-modal cross-scale biomedical imaging facilities cover a super-scale range spanning nine orders of magnitude from molecules to humans, realizing functional, molecular and structural, and morphological imaging, and will visually depict and accurately measure the structure and function of living organisms across scales. How to analyze life activities and major diseases through multimodal cross-scale imaging has always been a major scientific problem facing life sciences and medicine, and imaging facilities will also strive to solve the mysteries of life and disease.
Real-life view of imaging facility construction
Beijing Laser Acceleration Innovation Center
Compared with traditional accelerators, laser acceleration is like pressing the "fast forward button", causing particles to run out of new "acceleration". Using ultra-short and ultra-strong lasers to interact with plasma, it is possible to generate an acceleration field much higher than that of traditional accelerators, accelerating particles to high energies at the micron scale, providing the possibility of new miniaturized proton therapy devices in the future.
Beijing Laser Acceleration Innovation Center focuses on the generation of laser-driven high-energy charged ion beams and their research in fusion energy, space radiation simulation, biological irradiation and ultrafast ion beam applications, etc., promotes the cross-integration of laser accelerators with energy, space, biology and materials, and provides conditions for the research of important scientific issues in the fields of radiation medicine, frontier physics, nuclear energy sustainability, and advanced materials.
Laser Acceleration Innovation Center Real View
Light element quantum material crossover platform
Hydrogen, helium, lithium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen... These light elements, which are active at the forefront of the periodic table, will turn into quantum materials, which can not only "slim down" various quantum physics technologies, but also may spawn new quantum effects that change our production and life.
The light element quantum material cross-platform platform explores light element materials based on novel quantum effects based on the unique physical properties of the elements in the first three cycles of the periodic table, realizes the accurate measurement and regulation of quantum physical properties, and applies them to the research and development of related devices. When completed, the platform will play a role in the exploration of disruptive materials and technologies and the application mining of related quantum phenomena in energy, environment, information, biology and other fields.
Light element quantum material cross platform real view
Waimi Medical Center
In December 2019, Peking University signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Miyun District to jointly promote the construction of Huaimi Medical Center and supporting projects in the eastern district of Huairou Science City (Miyun part). After more than two years of development, the construction of Huaimi Medical Center has made progress.
Focusing on the goal of creating a world-class medical education, cutting-edge cross-cutting research and innovation transformation center, Huaimi Medical Center cultivates high-level medical and health talents, helps medical science and technology innovation to achieve integration and builds platforms and institutions related to teaching and educating people, scientific research and clinical research, and will also carry out research and development in the fields of new drug research and development, medical equipment, and key technologies.