The pride of the Chinese!
In Forbes' latest 2020 Under 30 List, a number of Chinese Americans stood out and were listed on the list.
Among them, Ann Lin, a 23-year-old female doctoral student at Stanford University, was shortlisted for the "Science List"!
Lin Ying was born in Queens, New York, USA to a Fuzhou immigrant family, and moved to Long Island with her family in middle school.
At the age of 16, after seeing Lin Ying indulge in the school lab, her science teacher recommended her to participate in the Future Partner Program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island.
What kind of laboratory is this?
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is known as the world's life science holy land, "cradle of molecular biology", and ranked first in the world's top ten research institutes with the greatest influence.
This non-profit private scientific research and education center, whose main research objects include cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics, etc., has produced 8 Nobel Laureates in the institute so far!
To enter such a laboratory, of course, the difficulty is comparable to ascending to the sky.
The Future Partner Program of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, which is only open to three places per year, must be submitted by the school, and applicants need to not only have excellent grades, but also pass the interview assessment.
However, it is precisely because of entering the Cold Spring Laboratory that Lin Ying was able to select and delve into topics of interest to her in a more professional experimental environment.
Photo from Lin Ying's Facebook
In the year she entered the lab, Ms. Lin also enrolled in Columbia University's Science Honors Program.
This program, which is only open to students in grades 10 to 12, can only be selected by the top 10% of students, and is also the cradle for cultivating many Nobel Prize winners!
At a young age, such achievements have been achieved. Since then, Lin Ying has embarked on her path of medical research.
What is even more shocking is that Lin Ying's paper shortlisted for the Forbes Elite List this time is based on an experiment when she was 19 years old.
At that time, Lin Ying's research results in the cold spring harbor laboratory showed that a targeted drug for cancer did not play its due role.
Although Lin Ying was skeptical of her findings, her supervisor, Jason Sheltzer, also a member of the Forbes shortlisted team, supported her to continue her research and spent another three years researching different cancer targeted drugs.
Finally, on September 11 this year, Lin Ying and her team published a paper in the hospital research journal "Science Translational Medicine", a protein originally thought to promote the growth of malignant tumors, but in fact does not make tumors worse, so targeted drugs against this protein are coincidental even if they work, and they do not play an overall role in improving the treatment of patients.
This result was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, overturning nearly 180 research results from top medical school experts and scholars, and also making Lin Ying on the Forbes elite list!
In fact, looking around, there are many young talents of Chinese descent in the elite list.
For example, Sharon Li, a 29-year-old postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University who was shortlisted for science like Lin Ying, specializes in computers and artificial intelligence; Tiffany Pang, a 29-year-old Chinese youth who was shortlisted for the social enterprise list, founded Aneach Grid in Silicon Valley to provide housing assistance to the homeless.
Forbes' under-30 elite list has 20 categories, including finance, education, music, science, sports and so on. The youngest elites in the list are often only 18 or 9 years old, and it is also very rare for young people like Lin Ying, who have achieved amazing achievements at the age of 23.
These young people have once again proved to the world with their own efforts and practical research results that the number of works is not authoritative, age and seniority are not authoritative, and the beautiful and dazzling aura and titles are not authoritative!