On September 25, 2018, Chen Saijuan was elected as the new chairman of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology at the 10th Congress of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology. The pictures in this article are all provided by the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology
After physicist Xie Xide and astronomer Ye Shuhua, the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology ushered in the third female chairman.
On the afternoon of September 25, the surging news (www.thepaper.cn) reporter learned at the scene of the tenth meeting of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology that Chen Saijuan, a 67-year-old female academician, took over the baton of medical scientist Chen Kaixian and became the new chairman of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology. According to public information, Chen Saijuan is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is currently the director of the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the director of the National Research Center for Translational Medicine (Shanghai).
Public reports show that Chen Saijuan has a legendary life path, she was once an ordinary textile worker, and then entered the Shanghai Second Medical College. In 1978, the country resumed the recruitment of graduate students, and Chen Saijuan stood out under the guidance of Professor Wang Zhenyi, a well-known expert in hematology.
It is worth mentioning that another graduate student recruited by Wang Zhenyi that year was Chen Zhu. Chen Saijuan and her husband Chen Zhu are a well-known pair of academicians in the academic circles.
After graduating with a master's degree, Chen Saijuan started out as a doctor, and after returning from paris de Vivre University in the late 1980s with a ph.D. from the University of Paris VII, she began to focus on academic research, especially leukemia-related research.
According to China News Network, the breakthrough results made by Chen Saijuan's team for acute promyelocytic leukemia have received significant responses from the world, known as the "Shanghai plan" for the treatment of the disease, and have now been widely used worldwide.
Chen Saijuan was interviewed by the media after her election
"My main energy is still engaged in scientific research, and (after being elected as the chairman of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology) I will also undertake more social tasks." On the afternoon of September 25, the newly elected Chen Saijuan said in an interview with many media, including the surging news, "This is also the responsibility of scientific and technological workers." ”
The first impression of the female scientist was modest and gentle, and the most she said was the word "learning". Whether it is former chairman Chen Kaixian and other old comrades, or two former female chairmen, they will be the objects of her study.
At present, Shanghai is marching towards a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence. Chen Saijuan said that on the one hand, she will continue to work hard in scientific research, on the other hand, she will make her own contribution at the level of the Association for Science and Technology, which is also the part she is actively thinking about.
She said that in the future, the key work of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology will include academic exchanges, scientific popularization, and scientific and technological think tanks. In addition, she is thinking about how to make new breakthroughs in innovative services and talent recommendation.
She was no stranger to these jobs. Taking science popularization work as an example, she was the seventh and eighth vice chair of the China Association for Science and Technology, and has long been committed to promoting the development of youth science and technology innovation activities and science popularization activities.
Shanghai's science popularization work has always been ahead of the whole country. According to the information released at the First World Public Science Quality Promotion Conference held not long ago, the proportion of Shanghai citizens with scientific quality is 21.88%.
According to Shanghai's "13th Five-Year Plan" science popularization plan, by 2020, the proportion of Shanghai citizens with scientific quality will continue to climb, reaching 25%. "This requires us in the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology to do a lot of work in the promotion of science popularization and quality education." Chen Saijuan said.
The new president of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology means that she will usher in a busier schedule. Just in October, she will attend the shanghai association for science and technology to hold the annual conference and academician round table and other activities in her new capacity.
"At the level of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, I still need to continue to learn." Chen Saijuan said.