When it comes to Yan Ning, everyone will feel some regrets and regrets before, because everyone knows that she is a very outstanding young female scientist, but she used to teach in the United States and cultivated most of the talents from abroad. Yan Ning announced at the Shenzhen Innovation Talent Forum held recently: officially resigned from the position of professor at Princeton University and returned to China as the president of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences, which was evaluated by many people as "the return of the goddess".
Yan Ning has many dazzling titles, such as foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first "International Young Scientist" of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States, the ninth Chinese young female scientist and so on.
She has in-depth research in molecular biology on important membrane transporters associated with diseases, the structure and working mechanism of voltage-gated ion channels, and the molecular mechanisms of membrane protein regulatory pathways. Yan Ning has published dozens of papers in the world's top three journals, and you must know that ordinary university professors may not be able to publish a paper of this level until retirement. In short, she is a very outstanding and talented female scientist, well-known at home and abroad.
Yan Ning was born in November 1977 in Zhangqiu, Shandong Province, to parents who were ordinary workers in automobile factories. Before the age of 6, Yan Ning mainly spent time in her grandmother's house in the countryside, saying that her grandmother and grandfather basically adopted a stocking model for her.
When she was 3 years old, she liked to read comic books, other children had pocket money, they all went to buy good food, and she used her pocket money to buy comic books to read, and she showed a memory far beyond her peers at that time.
When Yan Ning was 6 years old, she was in elementary school, and her parents were working at a car factory in Beijing because of job transfers.
Her parents took her to Beijing and sent her to school, where the family was crammed into a dilapidated building in Daxing, Beijing.
Yan Ning has always been a top student in the grade from elementary school to junior high school, she is very conscious in her studies and never needs the supervision of her parents.
For learning, she always has a lot of "why" to ask the teacher, this is a thinking little girl.
She also has a wide range of interests, likes literature, loves to read famous novels, likes to listen to radio dramas, commentaries, and also likes to listen to popular music.
Her dream was to be admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, and to become a journalist in the future and write brilliant articles.
In high school, Yan Ning was still a top student in school, and in the tense high school stage, she also liked to watch movies and cherish film and television stars.
The teacher saw that she was a little out of business, and reminded her that she should collect her heart, but she still enjoyed it. Despite her many hobbies, her grades are still excellent.
When the arts and sciences were divided, Yan Ning once wanted to study liberal arts, but the teacher strongly recommended that she study science, and felt that it was a pity for such a smart student to study liberal arts.
In this way, Yan Ning went to read science in confusion. When applying for the college entrance examination, her parents strongly recommended that she apply for the medical profession: First, they felt that the profession of doctor was very stable, not affected by the economic cycle, and the income was also good. Second, there are relatives at home who work in the hospital, and if you take this road, you will have a guide in the future.
Yan Ning has always been a child who makes parents very worry-free since she was a child, but in college majors, she did not blindly follow. It wasn't her dream to be a doctor, she wanted to make her mark in science.
After some thought, she chose the major of biological science, and she told her parents: biological science and medicine are very closely linked, and many scientific achievements of biology are applied in the field of medicine. Her parents agreed to enroll in biology.
In the college entrance examination in 1996, Yan Ning was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results. Yan Ning's 4 years at Tsinghua are not surprising, but when she chose to enter graduate school, she made a surprising move, she wrote a cover letter to Shi Yigong, a famous biologist who teaches at Princeton University in the United States, saying that she wanted to become his student. It was an attempt, but he unexpectedly received a reply from Shi Yigong and successfully became Shi Yigong's student.
Yan Ning's approach is telling us that we should not stick to the rules, young people should dare to fight, put ideas into action, do not look ahead, failure is not terrible, and if you do not try, you will regret it for life.
In only 4 years, Yan Ning received a doctorate from Princeton University, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University for 2 years. In 2007, Yan Ning, who had just turned 30, returned to China and joined Tsinghua University, becoming the youngest professor and doctoral supervisor in Tsinghua's history.
She worked at Tsinghua for 10 years, during which she won numerous honors, published several papers in world-renowned scientific research journals, and led a team at the age of 37 to analyze the three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter GLUT1 for the first time in the world. National Outstanding Youth, China Young Female Scientist Award, China Youth May Fourth Medal, CCTV Science and Technology Person of the Year, China Science Star and other major awards have been soft, and in 2017, she was also selected as the candidate for academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, becoming the youngest candidate.
However, it was precisely because of this candidacy for academician that when Yan Ning chose to leave China, people speculated about the reason for her departure. Yan Ning was not successfully elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the same year, Yan Ning announced that she had accepted the position of Shirley Tillman Tenured Chair Professor in the Department of Biology at Princeton University in the United States, leaving Tsinghua University after 10 years of work. At that time, many people believed that this "academic goddess" was forced to leave, but this was all speculation from the outside world, and Yan Ning himself had refuted rumors on his social account.
After leaving China, Yan Ning's development was like riding a rocket, not only becoming a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, but also becoming a foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. However, the more titles she has, the more everyone regrets. I thought to myself, if such an excellent female scientist could return to China to develop, how good it would be to teach in domestic universities.
Today, everyone's expectations have become a reality. At the 2022 Shenzhen Global Innovation Talent Forum, Yan Ning said an exciting news, that is, she has submitted her resignation to Princeton University, and in the near future, she will return to her homeland to become the founding president of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences to help the development of basic medicine in China.
But in addition to having a very rich knowledge, Yan Ning also has an exceptionally beautiful skin. Her appearance is beautiful and beautiful, so the media affectionately called her "Tsinghua Beautiful Professor". However, such a bachelor of Xiuwaihui has been frequently subjected to online violence by netizens. What is the reason for this?
It turns out that Yan Ning is now forty-two years old, although she is still an incomparably fresh backbone in the academic community, she is already an "older leftover girl" in the eyes of the seven aunts and eight aunts. So, worried netizens began to ask short questions from parents. Some are cordial greetings, and some do not say a word about teaching her to find a good family, so that she can sit back and relax in the second half of her life.
A group of netizens educated a Tsinghua professor, in the face of this funny scene, Yan Ning couldn't cry and laugh, and immediately responded to netizens: "I'm not married, I don't owe anyone an explanation." Although this sentence is concise and to the point, it is a powerful response to those who cling to the emotional problems of marriage.
Who dictates that women must have children? Who says women can't excel in scientific research? She has been refreshing people's old ideas. She has been trying to do what she can do, not setting limits for herself, not putting herself into the mold of society.