Although the huge and sudden joy of having a girlfriend almost made Sun Lien a little dizzy, the work that should be done must still be completed seriously. If anything goes wrong in the work of receiving Dr. Pascal, Sun Lien has no doubt about his future mentor Liu Tangchun
He would just skin himself and hang it at the entrance of the hospital emergency room, with a big letter written on it, "Sun Thief Lien died with this."
Dr. Pascal is a well-known scholar in the international medical community. Especially in clinical immunology, which he focuses on, Dr. Pascal, who has published dozens of SCI papers, is a leader in this field. Unfortunately, due to
His usual work is too clinical, and Dr. Pascal has not received much scientific research funding. His laboratory is actually a vacant room provided by the Massachusetts State Hospital where he works. At the same time, it relies on more than one million US dollars allocated by the college every year.
Scientific research funding, struggling to maintain scientific research work.
This contrast between achievements and working environment is mainly due to the direction of Dr. Pascal's research.
Dr. Pascal's main research direction is innate immune regulation. Research in this field is actually very different from his usual clinical work. Research on innate immune regulation is mainly through studying immune cell response mechanisms, immune cell regulatory mechanisms, and immune cell
It is carried out based on the generation mechanism. Research in this field does not have much investment value for pharmaceutical companies. For pharmaceutical companies, when investing in research, they must invest in the hottest research, which can best increase the company’s stock price and make the company earn money.
There are a lot of projects coming out.
For the field of immunology, such projects are currently focused on the research and transformation of immune cells. Especially in the field of CAR-T cells and PD-L1 antibody inhibitor research, many pharmaceutical companies are participating almost with a carnival mentality.
Investment research. PD-L1 antibodies can bind to PD-L1 antibodies on the outside of immune T cells in advance, preventing cancer cells from binding to PD-L1 antibodies outside immune T cells, thereby preventing cancer cells from using the antibodies to eliminate antibody T cells.
Car-T cells are more like a human body modification program. They are more like a treatment method than a drug. Doctors will isolate the T cells extracted from the patient. Then, through genetic engineering technology in vitro, a
Specially designed chimeric antibodies are added to T cells to create car-t stem cells. This specially designed chimeric antibody can recognize cancer cells and activate a large number of other T cells. In the next week to two
During the week, doctors will use all possible means to proliferate car-t stem cells. After the proliferation reaches billions, these cells will be infused back into the patient's body. Then the patient's physical condition will be closely monitored to avoid strong cell damage.
The factor storm killed the patient directly.
These two studies can be regarded as the main directions of modern medicine in solving the problem of cancer, and they are also the directions that currently seem to be most promising for success.
But these two popular projects have nothing to do with Dr. Pascal. He has been doing research in his small laboratory for ten years, using his spare time outside the clinic. Unfortunately, the research funding of one million US dollars is really
A little nervous. Most of the research equipment in Dr. Pascal's department are "antique" items that have been abandoned by other laboratories. The salaries of the two graduate students sometimes even require Dr. Pascal to use his own salary to repay some of the talent.
enough.
Although he is relatively famous, such a gap does exist. In his spare time, Dr. Pascal often travels to Southeast Asia and western China, actively participating in Médecins Sans Frontières activities. In these activities, although he saved
Many helpless children suffer from autoimmune diseases, but this does not help him obtain funding from other foundations. He spends a lot of time but cannot boost his career, although Mrs. Pascal is very supportive of her husband
It was a righteous act, but this behavior also made the Pascal family's financial situation seem a bit stretched. Although he often traveled to China, he could not even bring his children to China to see pandas.
Dr. Pascal met Xu Yourong, who had just entered Hopkins as an intern, during a lecture given by Doctors Without Borders. He soon became familiar with this young doctor who usually had a serious face. As an expert in the field of immunology,
Dr. Pascal enthusiastically shared many of the medical cases he had seen with Xu Yourong. Although the two were more than ten years apart in age, they were as natural as two old friends who had known each other for many years. During Xu Yourong's last two years in the United States,
, every Christmas holiday is spent with Rachel and the Pascal family.
After learning that Xu Yourong was about to return to China, Dr. Pascal's two children were sad for a while. They both liked Xu Yourong, this beautiful "Chinese sister" very much.
Until three days ago, Xu Yourong mentioned her and Sun Lien's treatment team in an email sent to Dr. Pascal. She did not think about inviting Dr. Pascal to serve in the team at first. Xu Yourong's purpose was actually just to let Pascal
The doctor just recommended a few excellent candidates.
Dr. Pascal, who had been struggling to keep his laboratory running for a long time in Massachusetts, was immediately moved. The scene Xu Yourong painted was really good. A newly built large emergency central hospital has a long-standing research medical university behind it.
Rely on. And more importantly, China’s attitude towards “basic medical research that has no good prospects”.
Different from the corporate and private sponsorship models in American universities, China's scientific research funding is mainly provided by the government. In the field of scientific research, probably only the government is interested in technologies with little commercialization prospects. Dr. Pascal firmly believes that,
Although the direction of your own research may not produce any epoch-making new drugs, the development of new drugs that act on the immune system must be paved with sufficient basic research before significant progress can be achieved.
Dr. Pascal was impulsive for the first time. He announced to his two children, "I'm going to take you to China to see pandas." But he never mentioned his plan to serve in China. He waited until the two children fell asleep at night.
, he told his wife the whole story.
"Go, dear." Although Mrs. Pascal never knew much about China and always felt that this mysterious Eastern country might exclude foreigners, she gave her husband's full support for his adventure.
"We have been married for sixteen years, and this is the first time you have decided to take a risk. It would be outrageous if I objected to this."
Dr. Pascal's family just boarded a plane to the capital.
"I'll drive." Rachel drove out of a black seven-seater MPV from the parking lot. She got into the driver's seat without hesitation and waved to Sun Lien and Hu Jia beside her, "Get in the car quickly!"
"Do you have a Chinese driver's license?" Sun Lien was a little panicked. He had only seen Americans driving in movies. And generally speaking, Americans who drive will not end up well in the end. Either the vehicle explodes or the chassis falls into the air.
The number of times we can successfully reach our destination is very rare.
Rachel took out a Chinese driver's license and waved it in front of Sun Lien's eyes, "I changed it when I came to China last year." She patted the steering wheel and ordered with great force, "There's no time to explain, get in the car quickly.
!" After saying that, he burst out laughing, lying on the steering wheel while laughing and explaining, "I'm sorry, I've been wanting to say this for a long time."
Sun Lien and Hu Jia got into the car with a smile, and the black MPV passed quietly through the streets of the capital. Not long after, the car drove onto the highway to the airport.
Rachel was very handsome, holding the steering wheel with one hand and leaning against the car window with the other. Sun Lien, on the other hand, had no time to worry about the consequences of Americans driving. Hu Jiazheng was pulling his arm and asking
Asking all the questions she could think of about Sun Lien.
"I know your age, name and gender." Hu Jia chuckled like a prank, "I basically don't know anything else. Can you introduce yourself?"
Sun Lien asked with a grimace, "Now?" He raised his eyebrows and pointed to Hu Jia that there was a big light bulb sitting on the driver's seat. "Isn't it appropriate to say this here?"
"There's nothing inappropriate. I won't ask you any weird questions." Hu Jia rubbed her hands. Her right hand was always held by Sun Lien, but her left hand was a little neglected. It was so cold that her hand felt uncomfortable.
"That's it, I ask questions and you answer."
Sun Lien nodded. Although he had no experience in dating, he also knew that he must not discount the nature of his girlfriend at this time.
"Then the first question." Hu Jia looked at his face and asked seriously, "Do you like me?"
"Hey!" Before Sun Lien could answer, Rachel, who was driving, exploded first. "Please pay attention! There is a guy here who hasn't seen his girlfriend for more than half a year! Don't irritate me! I will step on it as hard as I can.
Throttle it!"
Sun Lien nodded vigorously towards Hu Jia. Then he whispered, "For the sake of safety, let's change the question."
"Then, the second question." Hu Jia covered his mouth and laughed for a while, then continued to ask, "Are you an only child?"
"Yes." There is nothing difficult to answer this question. Sun Lien nodded and said, "I am the only child of my parents."
Such questions and answers continued under Rachel's constant protests, and it was not until MPV arrived at the airport that it came to an end for the time being.
Rachel deliberately put her face in front of Hu Jia, rolled her eyes vigorously, and then asked, "When you meet Mrs. Pascal later, you can ask her about her previous romantic experience with Dr. Pascal."
"Is it interesting?" The nature of Hu Jia's chat today was obviously very high. She asked curiously, "Mrs. Pascal doesn't understand Chinese, right?"
"I will translate for you." Rachel gritted her teeth and forced a "gentle" smile from her face. "I will translate the whole process, no matter the details."