Chapter 38 The troubles caused by fame
“Chinese scientists have cracked the law of virus evolution and provided new ideas for broad-spectrum vaccine design”
“Chinese scientists have proposed broad-spectrum vaccine design ideas for Fighting against continuous virus mutations"
"The complete elimination of the virus is beginning to dawn, and the scientific research results of Chinese scientists will help end the global pandemic of the virus"
Domestic media from a certain year! At the beginning, the function of news reporting was completely lost. For events with news value, they either waited for official notifications or reprinted foreign news. The depth and breadth of the news was not as good as that of self-media.
It’s not even inferior, it’s inferior to many self-media that seek truth from facts.
Chinese media copied overseas media reports, while Chinese self-media clearly analyzed Chen Yuanguang’s past glorious history, this scientific research achievement, and the positive significance of scientific research results in ending the virus epidemic.
“The most popular topic in overseas media recently is that the paper published by Chinese scientists in science is expected to end the global pandemic of the virus in the short term.
What is going on specifically? To put it simply, the Chinese scientist calculated the future mutation path of the virus through simulation calculations and accurately predicted the mutation point of future virus mutation.
In this way, medical institutions can obtain the mutation point of virus mutation in advance. , design a vaccine that covers current and future virus mutation points, so that the vaccine you inject does not have to worry about immune escape
In the past, even mRNA viruses were only effective for half a year or even less, but with the availability of broad-spectrum vaccines, they can be effective for three years or even longer.
So the media are saying that the vaccine is expected to end the global pandemic early.
I saw a lot of questions from my audience in private messages backstage, so I picked some typical ones to answer.
Is this a breakthrough achievement? Certainly, his paper has data to verify that his simulation algorithm is correct, and there will be new data to verify his algorithm in the future. This is a major breakthrough in biological computing in the field of virology.
Considering the background of the times, its significance is even more significant.
Can this research result help end the global epidemic of the virus? It has a very positive effect, but I can't say whether it can be completely ended.
Because vaccine development costs money, production costs money, and transportation costs money, broad-spectrum vaccines will be more expensive than ordinary mRNA vaccines. Developed countries can afford injections, but underdeveloped regions such as Africa and the Middle East obviously cannot. With this money, what if they raise a Gu King?
It’s completely over, I don’t know, and it’s hard to say.
Who is the author, so powerful? Oh, I forgot to mention that many viewers must have heard of it. Chen Yuanguang is the author of the original novel "Once Upon a Time in Kuala Lumpur". He graduated from Jiangnan University and went to MIT last year. He published two Nature articles when he was at Jiangnan University. After going to MIT, he Published a Nature article, which should be considered his fourth top publication. He is an absolute genius.
The top journals he published before were all focused on the field of simulation computing, so there are not many doubts about his new results this time in the academic community. His papers are all about simulation computing in chemistry, biology, and virology. The application is his circle of competence.
It’s just that his results this time have allowed us to once again realize how powerful the combination of deep learning algorithms and biological computing can be. I estimate that the biological computing direction will be full in the next few years.
Will he return to China or stay in America? How do I know this? I don’t know him. I’ll ask my friends at Jiang University if they know him. Then I’ll ask my friends to ask.
I haven’t graduated with my Ph.D. yet. He has so many top-notch achievements. It’s easy to stay at MIT and get a teaching position. Why bother to go back to China to write papers? Isn’t it necessary to toast Hawking when he comes to China to present a joke? ? But that's not necessarily the case. This kind of top talent is different from our track. They don't need to apply for it when they come back. They can just get their teaching hats and so on. It's up to them.
Can this achievement be awarded the Nobel Prize? I can only say that there is hope, but he is too young. I don’t think it will be awarded to him so soon. The judges of the Nobel Prize will definitely have to wait for several years before awarding it to him.
But he is definitely the most promising winner in the country. Chen Yuanguang’s achievements in the fields of biocomputing and computational chemistry are among the best. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a leader in this direction, and he is too young. I am in my early twenties and have great hope of winning awards later.
It can only be said that I am still in my early twenties, still worrying about graduating with a Ph.D., and making a living as an internet celebrity by posting videos on Bilibili. Why the hell do I become more and more sad the more I talk about it? "The video of a certain B-site up owner is much more specific than the Chinese media reports.
Chen Yuanguang's results have aroused heated discussions around the world, and large pharmaceutical groups are rapidly starting the research and development of broad-spectrum vaccines. .
Everyone knows that compared with the latest broad-spectrum vaccines, mRNA is no longer popular, and broad-spectrum vaccines are the future.
"Pangalos, how about the communication with Letchen. ?
Did he accept our offer? asked Daubert, who is AstraZeneca's executive vice president and president of the biopharmaceutical division.
Pangalos shook his head: "Chen firmly rejected our invitation. He probably still wants to stay." In academia.
I think we need to work with Chen in a different way. For top scientists like this, they always want to stay in the ivory tower rather than come to the industry at the beginning of their careers.
I thought about it later and realized that we could definitely adopt a cooperative approach. We hired him as a special consultant, and his subsequent results on the simulated evolution of the COVID virus were only shared with AstraZeneca and not published.
In this case, our vaccine will have a longer validity period, which is our exclusive advantage. With AstraZeneca’s advantages in Europe, the European government will only consider AstraZeneca, and we will have exclusive access to the entire Europe market.
Even if Pfizer asks American to coordinate, we can rely on this advantage to make American have nothing to say. ”
Daubert thinks this is a good idea, but he has huge doubts about whether the EU can refuse Amerikan’s request.
Even if their vaccine is far ahead For Pfizer, the EU government also has to give Pfizer a certain share.
But this is not important. Even if it is only a majority share, it will be enough for AstraZeneca to deliver an extremely beautiful answer to the board of directors this year. Executives can also receive generous dividends.
It is not just AstraZeneca that has thought of this. Organizations such as Pfizer and Merck have also thought of this.
Chen Yuanguang was bothered endlessly. He chose to cut the mess quickly and sent a group message directly on WhatsApp. I will no longer do simulation calculations in this area. I will switch to other research directions in the future and then shut down directly.
Why do you choose this? Because the remuneration for special consultants and confidentiality of papers in these pharmaceutical companies is not much. As a best-selling author and IP owner, he makes much more money than this.
His simulation calculation method has been announced. These pharmaceutical companies can still get a rough result by following the same pattern, so they are unwilling to ask high prices and the price they give is very limited.
(End of this chapter)