She is the youngest young scientist, only 29 years old, she won the 2022 Ali Dharma Academy Green Orange Award;
Her biggest motivation for doing scientific research is that she wants to treat a certain disease, and the death of her relatives has strengthened her faith;
She has no overseas education experience, from Wuhan University to Tsinghua University to Westlake University, but the results are world-class.
Her name is Bai Rui, 29 years old, and she is currently an associate researcher at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University. On October 31, the 2022 DAMO Academy Green Orange Award list was announced, 15 young scholars under the age of 35 were selected, each of them will receive 1 million yuan and Alibaba's all-round scientific research support, including 4 women, she is the youngest of all the award-winning scholars.
When she was in high school, Bai Rui was most interested in biology, and she chose the School of Life Science of Wuhan University without hesitation during the college entrance examination. During college, a family member died of illness, which strengthened her belief in using scientific research to break through diseases, and her goal for graduate school was Tsinghua University, hoping to become a student of Professor Shi Yigong.
With the advantage of first grade in professional courses, Bai Rui finally passed the interview successfully, directly entered Tsinghua University, and successfully entered his dream Shi Yigong research group. Shi Yigong is no stranger to everyone, a top structural biologist, who has served as the dean of the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University, the vice president of Tsinghua University, and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in December 2013.
Directly Bo Tsinghua and receiving the guidance of Professor Shi Yigong, Bai Rui was both excited and stressed, she focused all her energy on her studies, spending most of her time in the laboratory, and published 8 CNS articles ("Cell", "Nature" and "Science") in 4 years during her doctoral studies, and even surpassed her senior sisters Wan Ruixue and Yan Ning, known as the real goddess of scientific research in Tsinghua University!
Studies have shown that 35% of human genetic diseases and almost all types of cancer are directly related to "spliceosomes". Bairui's main research work is the molecular mechanism of spliceosomes and RNA splicing. As a core member of the team, she participated in and led the completion of the world's only series of results covering the complete RNA cycle, revealed the molecular mechanism of spliceosome remodeling for the first time, and led and opened up the research direction of U12 spliceosome. The results of her research "have been written into textbooks."
In 2018, Bai Rui won the Tsinghua University Graduate Special Scholarship and was selected into the 2018 "Future Women Scientist Program" selected by the China Association for Science and Technology, only 5 people in the country, she also won the national scholarship twice, the "Future Scholar" scholarship, Tsinghua University excellent graduation thesis, Tsinghua University outstanding graduate and Beijing excellent graduate and other honors.
In January 2018, Shi Yigong resigned as vice president of Tsinghua University to prepare full-time for the establishment of Westlake University, and was elected as the first president of Westlake University in April 2018. In 2019, Rui Bai graduated from Tsinghua ahead of schedule and followed her supervisor to Westlake University to engage in postdoctoral research. In February 2020, at the age of less than 27, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for the World's Most Promising Women Scientist 2020.
For her who has no overseas education experience, she is undoubtedly lucky to obtain world-class scientific research results, which is inseparable from her own efforts, the continuous improvement of domestic scientific research conditions, and the guidance of top scientists such as Academician Shi Yigong.
We also wish that this seemingly weak but strong girl can go further and further on the road of scientific research in the future. As she wishes, "My biggest motivation for doing scientific research is to treat a certain disease." I believe that in the near future, her scientific research results will benefit more patients.
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