A delegation led by Yan Chunhua, President of Lanzhou University (LZU) and Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), visited Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL) on the afternoon of June 24, 2022. Wu Yun-Dong, Executive Vice Director of SZBL and Member of CAS; Hu Xiaojun, Secretary of SZBL Party Committee; Tu Huan, Vice Director of SZBL and relevant researchers of SZBL held a meeting with the delegation.
At the meeting, Academician Wu Yun-Dong introduced the development plan and construction progress of SZBL. Academician Yan Chunhua spoke highly of SZBL's achievements, noting that as an advanced, new-type international biomedical research institution, with the strong support of Guangdong and Shenzhen, SZBL had shown its strengths in gathering international talents and research platforms after three years of fast growth. As a superb opportunity for LZU to learn from and communicate with a high-level research institution, as well as a new driver for the talent and research devilment of SZBL, the cooperation between LZU and SZBL will promote the mutual development of the two sides.
Then the two sides discussed talent training, research cooperation, achievement transformation and other issues, reaching broad consensus on strengthening cooperation:
First, advancing complementary development
SZBL superior in biomedical research and LZU superior in teaching and regional resources can leverage respective strengths to carry out cooperation and exchanges in student training, research education and other fields.
Second, establishing a cooperation mechanism
The two sides will establish a "wall removing" mechanism, integrate their disciplinary and technical advantages based on respective development needs, pool the strength from teachers and scientific research teams, strengthen talent introduction and cultivation, and explore a working mechanism for combined training of talents and students by research interests, thus creating a cooperation pattern of "teaching-research-talent training".
Third, exploring fields for potential research cooperation
The two sides will keep exploring fields for potential research cooperation, carry out project cooperation in fields such as biomedical research and translation, and advance cooperation and exchanges in depth.
At last, Academican Wu said SZBL craves for talents; LZU's teachers and students are thirsty for knowledge and have outstanding academic competence. SZBL-LZU cooperation will boost the research strengths of SZBL, help LZU improve in student training and teaching, inject new impetus for common development, and promote the high-quality development of research and education undertakings. At the next stage, the two sides will carry out pilot cooperation in fields such as joint graduate education and accelerate the development of a cooperation mechanism.