Tianjin: 93 year old academician and his wife saved 1 million yuan for years.
new network Tianjin June (reporter Zhang Daozheng) "my greatest hope is being born, like Seagal, the best one in the world. Batch of scientists came to Tianjin University to support our work. The 93 year old Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, academician Shen Jiaxiang, donated himself and Chen Yanna, who has saved one million yuan from Chen Yanna for years, to set up the "Shen Jiaxiang Education Fund" for Tianjin University. He hopes that this million yuan can support more young people to innovate.
SHEN Jiaxiang was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu in 1921. During his youth, he suffered from war and was torn away. After studying in Britain, after receiving a doctor's degree in University of London in July 1949, he refused to stay in Britain and returned to the newly established new China. It began to study the industrialization of drugs and set up the ideal of saving the country by science.
during the anti American aggression and aid Dynasty, Shen Jiaxiang was responsible for the study of chloramphenicol production and improved the process. In 50s and 60s twentieth Century, we took the lead in the successful synthesis and production of vitamin A acetate and vitamin D2 using Chinese resources; and the synthesis and production of a variety of steroid hormones such as hydrocortisone and dexamethasone; The total synthesis of estrone has laid the foundation for the industrial total synthesis of Chinese steroid family planning drugs.
1972, Shen Jiaxiang studied the success of the synthesis of three enolone, the first new drug for Chinese steroid contraceptives. Since 80s, Shen Jiaxiang began the study of the chemical composition of Salvia miltiorrhiza and the synthesis of BCG. In 90s, he began to "start a business" at the age of 70, and led to the creation of a Beijing collector. Institute of things.
eighty years of age, that is, in 2001, Shen Jiaxiang was invited to Tianjin University, participated in the founding of the University of Tian Da medicine. In the first six years of the founding of the Institute, Shen Jiaxiang did not take care of the high and weak years, and always insisted on the work in the front line.
"even now, he still keeps watching the news every day. He has a lot of new ideas every day and calls them to the students and assistants at any time." In the eyes of Shen Jiaxiang's family, the old man who was still on the Internet and retrieved research materials on the Internet half a year ago has been persisting in his work and insisting on "innovation".
Shen Jiaxiang, the grandson of academician Shen Jiaxiang, told reporters that last year, Shen Jiaxiang was suddenly interested in natto, began to study vitamin K in Nadu, turned his kitchen into a "laboratory", and fermented natto with a baby sitter. The place. Even with recent inconveniences, he kept his family and students helping him to retrieve documents from time to time.
it can be said that academician Shen Jiaxiang's life has always been innovation and entrepreneurship. In 1964, he won 2 national new products three awards; in 1978, he won the National Science Conference award 5; in 1982, won the national invention three prize 1. In 1999, Shen Jiaxiang won the Beijing city scientific progress award two prize. In 1983, Shen Jiaxiang was elected as the communications academician of the French Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and was elected as the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999. In 2007, he and the other nine scientists were awarded the "outstanding contribution award" at the founding of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association for 100 years in Daqing.
despite the fact that it is over nine years old, Shen Jiaxiang academician is always thinking about "innovation". "I do this in response to the call of the central government, and the State encourages us to innovate and innovate."
talked about the original intention of giving millions to support the development of pharmacy in Tianjin University, Shen Jiaxiang said, there is still a gap between the current drug research and the world level in China. "We used to imitate, and now, like Professor Seagal and more young scientists who have come to China to participate in the research on drug innovation and support our research work, I think it should be the same."
Shen Jia Xiang's "Professor Seagal", a American scientist Jay Siegel, was appointed dean of the Tianjin University School of medicine at the beginning of 2013. On the same day, he also came to Shen's home with Li Jiajun, the president of Tianjin University, to receive donations. Almost every month, the foreign president went to Shen Jiaxiang's house to exchange views with him. In Seagal's eyes, academicians of Shen Jiaxiang just embodied "four virtues": patriotism, innovation, loyalty and tolerance.