Yan Ning's resume:
Born in November 1977 in Zhangqiu, Shandong, a famous structural biologist, graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in 2000, a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 2004, and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, at the age of 30, Yan Ning served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University.
In May 2017, Yan Ning accepted the invitation of Princeton University in the United States to be appointed as the Shirley Tillman tenured chair professor in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University, and was elected as a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019. In 2021, he was elected as a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Yan Ning is mainly engaged in the research of important membrane transporters related to diseases, the structure and working mechanism of voltage-gated ion channels, and the molecular mechanism of membrane proteins regulating cholesterol metabolic pathways.
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Come back!
There and Back Again！
At 11:30 a.m., Yan Ning stood on the stage in Shenzhen and recounted her third dream.
This dream is to export, to pass on what you have learned and felt to more people, help more people, and support more people. The journey back is not as good as yours. At this time, Shenzhen extended an olive branch to her and hit it off with Yan Ning.
China's youngest structural biologist immediately said that he would assist Shenzhen to create a new type of research and development institution integrating scientific research and transformation, student training and other functions, the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences, and served as the founding president of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences full-time.
There is a phoenix to ming. This news quickly appeared on the first place in the hot search, and netizens lined up to welcome Yan Ning from the United States and return to China.
I first met Yan Ning in 2017 on CCTV's "Let's Talk" program. At that time, Yan Ning's long hair fluttered, and the earrings were high heels, which caused a cheer at the scene, and the name of the goddess of science went away, and I was stunned, can scientists still be like this?
From this, I became very interested in Yan Ning. Yan Ning, 45 years old, born in Zhangqiu, Shandong, is a standard rural girl, like a wild boy since childhood, going up the tree to pick birds and go down the river to catch fish, omnipotent, the key is that the results are still good thieves.
This may be what everyone calls talent. After being admitted to the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University in 1996, he went all the way to obtain a doctorate in only 4 years, and won the "Young Scientist Award (North America)" selected by Science magazine the following year.
After that, he studied under Shi Yigong and engaged in postdoctoral research in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University. In October 2007, Yan Ning, who was less than 30 years old, returned to his alma mater and was hired by the School of Medicine of Tsinghua University to set up a laboratory, becoming the youngest doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University at that time.
At the age of 31, Yan Ning was appointed as a full professor at Tsinghua University, leading a team with an average age of less than 30 years old to overcome scientific problems that have plagued the structural biology community for half a century. And at the age of 39, he became the youngest candidate for academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
During her 6 years at Tsinghua, she not only analyzed the three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter GLUT1 for the first time, but also obtained the super-high-resolution structure of GLUT3 binding substrates and inhibitors with more conformation, and made important contributions in the field of ion channel structure and the crystal structure of voltage-gated sodium ion channels.
But in 2017, Yan Ning, who was in full swing, suddenly left Tsinghua University and accepted an invitation from Princeton University in the United States to be hired as the Shirley Tillman tenured chair professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Two years later, he was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences.
For another two years, he was elected as a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At that time, many people believed that Yan Ning chose to "run away negatively" because he was not elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences, which Yan Ning publicly clarified, and Tsinghua University also claimed that it would help spread Chinese academic ideas and educational concepts to the international academic stage.
In fact, in the 5 years at Princeton, Yan Ning has achieved fruitful results, revealing for the first time in the world the atomic-resolution structure of a series of important physiological and pathological transmembrane proteins, such as human glucose transporters, eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium channels and calcium channels, which provides a molecular basis for understanding the pathogenesis of related diseases and drug development.
It can be said that Yan Ning is the second Chinese female scientist who can influence the world of biology after Tu Youyou.
But what many people don't know is that even so, Yan Ning did not become an American citizen, and has always served as a visiting professor at his alma mater, Tsinghua University, as a Chinese scientist, always carrying China's sea of stars in his heart.
Compared with the serious scientist Yan Ning, many people prefer the non-mainstream scientist Yan Ning. It is also Yan Ning that gives me a new understanding of scientists, it turns out that scientists are not so rigid and boring, and they are very fun.
Like many girls, she likes to chase stars and dramas, and often likes her favorite idols, or a Weibo controller, from the opening of Weibo to now has sent more than 4,000 messages, from popular science to dramas, from life to comment hotspots, I have to say a few words.
When she was asked why she hadn't married and started a family in her 40s, she responded domineeringly: "I'm not married, I don't owe anyone an explanation." "I like this Yan Ning so much, she is alive and straightforward.
When she entered my field of vision again and was impressed, she liked Deng Fei's Weibo this year and spoke out for the "chain woman". This has made many people know a more three-dimensional Yan Ning, not only talented, but also full of justice and compassion.
But her compassion also encountered some siege on Weibo, especially Sima Nan accused Yan Ning in a commentary, so that Yan Ning was labeled "well-known" and "traitor", and even called her "Meite" and "traitor".
Today, Yan Ning is full of patriotic enthusiasm and will serve as the founding president of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences full-time. Then some people began to blush, and their hearts were not good, especially those who had denigrated her in the first place.
For example, a man named Lin Moubo thought that Yan Ning's "return" was academic speculation. There are also people who believe that Yan Ning is an academician of the US Imperialist Academy of Sciences, and his "scientist" character needs to be verified, and there is also a conspiracy theory that Yan Ning was put back to China by the US imperialist initiative and his heart must be different.
Alas, these people on the Internet shout patriotic slogans every day, but in reality they can't do anything
I advise these net maggots, before denigrating Yan Ning, to see what they can do for this country and what they have done for this country. Is the second centenary goal achieved by your online cynicism?
It cannot but be said that the political understanding of these people is worrying. At the just-concluded conference, one of the important strategies was to "deeply implement the innovation-driven development strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, talents and strengthening the country", why did Yan Ning choose Shenzhen? Why did Shenzhen choose Yan Ning?
Is this just a "hit it off"? No! Behind this is the strategic layout of the country and the thirst for talent in the world. The Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is one of the important subjects written into the central government's opinion on "supporting Shenzhen's construction of a pilot demonstration zone".
In order to attract top talents like Yan Ning to return to China, Shenzhen can be said to have a green light all the way, with no fixed establishment, no fixed level, independent posts, following the principles of council governance and academic autonomy, and recruiting deans globally!
Obviously, these conditions were tailored for Yan Ning under the endorsement of the state.
Such a demonstration effect will surely attract more overseas talents to return, and the rising China is thirsty for talent, and it is urgent to launch a talent return plan on a global scale!
I believe that every scientist who is overseas lives in his or her own homeland and yearns to devote himself to the sea of stars of his motherland.
And Yan Ning's return also indicates that the battle for scientific and technological talents between China and the United States has officially begun!
Even Sima Nan, who had not been waiting to be seen, began to shout:
Today's day belongs to Yan Ning!