Harvard Postdocs’ Entrepreneurial Dream Comes True

Personal Values vs Serving the Country

As a specialist in high throughput screening technology in drug research, Ren Tao kept in contact with old friends while conducting his postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School. He shared the pleasure of their achievements.

In 2015, after completing his project, he went to Science Island. Ren Tao’s presence made the “Harvard team” all the more stronger.

An SHMFF-based, major disease-oriented interdisciplinary research academic chain has since been completed.

Inevitably, certain scientific research conditions in the newly-built SHMFF were somewhat preliminary. Compared with the equipment that members of the life sciences team had used in previous scientific research, not including the SHMMF, the facilities available fell far short of international leading standards.

However, the scientists received support, in the form of capital, projects, and personnel, through various national and local policies geared to nurturing talent. Liu Qingsong observed that the historical backdrop today has changed from that where the older generation of returnees, such as Qian Xuesen and Li Siguang, were needed by the motherland. Today, the situation has dramatically changed for Liu and his team. Achieving individual value is thus consistent with serving the home country.

Peaceful Science Island is far from the urban hustle and bustle, and hence an ideal setting for research. Life here is also convenient. Wang Wenchao and Zhang Xin’s children go to the nearby school, and they are delighted with their daughter’s progress in Chinese language. “At first she couldn’t understand a word on the Chinese exam paper, but now her Chinese has reached middle level in the class,” Zhang Xin said.