Yang Rui was also very interested in the conditions offered by Tobiers.

300,000 US dollars is not much, but it is all US dollar foreign exchange.

Moreover, this money is not much for Yang Rui, not really not much.

If it is converted into RMB, it can be used as one or more than one researcher in the ion channel laboratory, it will be so excited that it is half-excited.

More importantly, the money released by Tobiles on behalf of the US Department of Energy opened a brand new door to Yang Rui.

Nowadays, there are not many foreign laboratories that can get funding from Americans, and there are not many laboratories in Europe. And funding is actually inertia.

In a sense, scholars seeking funds is like finding a job. The first job is very difficult. You have to put out too many things to prove yourself, just like academic qualifications, achievements, awards, certificates...

However, when the first job is obtained and you have to find a second job, there is no need to prove all kinds of information and boring prefaces, just prove your achievements in the first job.

For the proud Americans in the 1980s, the education, experience, and academic ability of an Asian person is not important. Instead, an injection of American funds will make people wonder why.

If we can achieve corresponding results, it will be much easier to get a second dollar fund.

Including the U.S. Department of Energy, National Foundation or private donor agencies, they will regard Yang Rui, who has received US funds as an ordinary and normal candidate, rather than an Asian scholar who doesn't know what's going on.

This is very common in the academic field.

For example, scholars who have American study experience prefer to apply for funds from the United States or cooperate with American scholars even if they return to China.

On the one hand, compared with domestic academic funds like porridge, the United States has a large amount of funds to manage fullness. On the other hand, the United States has a clear and small amount of funding procedures. However, why are scholars with American study experience applying for such tempting funds? Why are there so few Chinese local scholars applying for? Is it possible that the level of Chinese local scholars must be lower than those who have returned from studying in the United States?

Statistically speaking, this is naturally impossible.

The correct reason is the inertia of funds.

For an American institution, giving money to a newcomer obviously has major risks, and they are more willing to hand over the money to familiar scholars, at least familiar to other American institutions.

This is the same as banks like to lend to people who have paid back their loans.

Those who have applied for funds in the United States will be more likely to apply for funds when they return to China or to Africa.

If you haven’t applied, just wait and see. There is no special point, and the application form may not even be able to pass the basic screening.

Some people will shout, everyone has their first time, you won’t give me a chance - haha.

For Yang Rui, the first time he took money from Americans, $300,000 in free funds was much more meaningful than $5 million in investment funds.

And this money he used in the ion channel laboratory is more valuable than using it himself.

High-end laboratories are all raised with massive funds. With Yang Rui's current conditions, it is very easy for him to work in high-end laboratories. People like Dalbeco will try every means to meet Yang Rui's scientific research needs, and the conditions will be amazingly good.

Many scientists are willing to research purely in the laboratory and don’t worry about it. Cavendish laboratories in Cambridge often have two or even three Nobel Prize winners.

However, if you want complete scientific research freedom and complete scientific research results, you must own a high-end laboratory and have a large amount of open source.

It is unrealistic to rely on yourself to make money to raise ion channels, and Peking University may not be acceptable. And it is certainly even more unrealistic to have to raise Peking University by itself. Even if Yang Rui was nominated for the Nobel Prize, he could not afford a world-class biological basic laboratory under the conditions of the 1980s.

From a national perspective, whether it is investing in electricity or pork, it is more useful than investing in basic biological research.

Absorbing funds around the world is an essential attribute for a top laboratory.

Of course, Yang Rui also wants to highlight the value of this money, so as to get the second and third money...

The investment-return model is the most ideal, but there are not many laboratories that can really do it.

It is normal to spend money and not be able to achieve results.

Can you produce results by spending money? God will still answer your requests.

For Yang Rui, it is relatively simple to achieve results, but it is not inevitable. Fortunately, Tobiles is more anxious than him and does not know which department he passed. It took only two days to transfer the funds.

Yang Rui immediately notified everyone in the Ion Channel Laboratory of Peking University to hold a telephone conference.

It was said that it was a conference call, which was a long-distance phone call to operate hands-free. Xu Zhengping and others heard that there was a fund of 300,000 US dollars, so they were naturally not active. A group of people were crowded in the conference room.

"I am planning to distribute this money evenly." Yang Rui's first words shocked the few people who were ready to beat him.

Without waiting for a voice from the other side of the phone, Yang Rui continued: "Although the $300,000 is free fund, I still decided to put it all into a public laboratory. Peking University Ion Channel Laboratory will get $250,000. Another $50,000 will be handed over to the Westburg Middle School Laboratory."

Now, the researchers who were still struggling with equal distribution suddenly complained, and the phone was filled with chaotic sounds and electric currents.

"What is the need for investment in middle school laboratories?"

"It would be a waste to use $50,000 in the middle school lab."

"Is anyone doing experiments in the middle school lab?"

Yang Rui knocked on the microphone hard and said, "The laboratory of Xibao Middle School will cooperate with the Medical Technology Development Zone. In the future, you will inevitably be sent to the Medical Technology Development Zone. At that time, what should you do if the conditions in the laboratory cannot even be performed in verification experiments?"

Although Huarui Pharmaceutical is the only pharmaceutical company recruited by Hedong Provincial Medical Technology Development Zone, in terms of its staffing and nature, Hedong Provincial Medical Technology Development Zone is still a public unit, so it is still very suitable to provide the laboratory of Xibao Middle School. It is no problem to ask professors from Peking University to help.

The researchers in the Ion Channel Laboratory stopped calling.

Xu Zhengping concluded: "If it is indeed useful, a $50,000 equipment update is not expensive."

"Let's talk about the remaining 250,000 US dollars." Fan Zhenlong's words were immediately agreed by everyone.

Yang Rui coughed and said, "$250,000, I plan to allocate $180,000 first, the interacting protein component is $60,000, the G protein component is $60,000, and the cloning component is $60,000."

"The cloning team is also 60,000?" Su Fan, who was in charge of this project, screamed in surprise.

In the ion channel laboratory, Yang Rui's project is naturally the largest, but he did not do long-term projects. Often, when one project is completed, he will do another project. Below Yang Rui, Xu Zhengping's interacting protein group and the G protein group conducted by Su Xiankai and others are secondary long-term projects.

In comparison, Su Fan's cloning group has the least resources and was cancelled for a while.

Even now, the cloning group is an internal name for the ion channel laboratory and has not obtained a special project name. Su Fan, who is in charge of this project, never thought that he could be on par with the mutual protein group.

However, Yang Rui knew the social effects of the cloning project, so he was very willing to invest.

Unlike PCR, no matter what cloning is, it is a very complex and detailed experiment. Without long-term investment, you will not be able to see the effect. If Yang Rui wants to get involved in the social effect of cloning, he must prepare in advance.

He said affirmatively: "The cloning team needs to speed up the progress. I have no requirements for you. You can report it to me on time."

Su Fan kept saying that.

Jiao Yangping, Tian Bing and others looked at Su Fan eagerly and applied for a speech: "Where is the remaining 70,000 US dollars?"

"Preparation is for genomics. If you have good projects, you can apply. It's okay to take away some of them, and you can take away all of them." Genomics is a large range and has a wide range of research. The scale of Yang Rui's ion channel laboratory is gradually expanding, so everyone has to find projects to apply for by themselves.

For senior researchers, finding projects is the easiest thing, and no one objected.

"Do you have time requirements?" Xu Zhengping asked more.

Yang Rui laughed twice and said, "If the next batch of funds are in place, it will definitely not be distributed equally, so... everyone arranges their own time."

After hanging up the phone, Yang Rui could imagine the entangled expressions of the people in the laboratory.

Have a good Spring Festival and don’t think about it after doing scientific research.

Scientific research has always been globally competitive. If you spend the Spring Festival for 15 days at home, Americans will not extend the Christmas holiday because of this. Those who want to celebrate the Spring Festival, those who want to celebrate the Waterstorm Festival, and those who want to celebrate the Eid al-Adha can enter the industry where time competition is not so fierce, or be a writer who delays the manuscript, such as technology and patents, if the manuscript is delayed and done by others, the previous work will be in vain.

Yang Rui himself is not planning to celebrate the Spring Festival.

Before the Spring Festival, he sorted out the Xijie Factory and the laboratories of Xibao Town Middle School and began to prepare for updating PCR technology. After New Year's Eve, it would be difficult to find workers or instrument and equipment providers to help.

Fortunately, the Hedong Provincial Government attached great importance to Yang Rui's work. The cadres in charge of contact heard that Yang Rui was interested in restructuring the laboratory, so they immediately transferred a professional moving team from Pingjiang. Although the workers of pure state-owned enterprises were a little lazy, their work was still very good. Under Yang Rui's command, a group of people moved out several machines that were originally intended for the drug delivery factory and put them out temporarily to the experiment at Xibao Middle School, and then waited for Yang Rui to use it before dismantling it back.
Chapter completed!