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South China Morning Post
5 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
From NIH to SMART: senior biologist Lu Wei leaves US government post for China
Professor Lu Wei, a senior investigator at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the latest Chinese academic to return home amid drastic funding cuts to university research grants by the Trump administration. He has taken up a full-time role with the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART), as announced on the organisation's official social media account on June 3. SMART president Yan Ning reposted the announcement, commenting: '[Lu] officially agreed to come to Shenzhen long before President Donald Trump's second term. His research field is fascinating.' Lu has long focused on the neurobiological mechanisms of synaptic development and functional regulation, as well as the effects of anxiety, depression , anaesthesia and alcohol. Lu's relocation back to China significantly bolsters the ambitions of Shenzhen, an open economic special zone, to become a national centre for biomedical research. Lu graduated with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from China's Sichuan University in 1997 and obtained a master's degree from Zhejiang University three years later.
South China Morning Post
5 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
From NIH to SMART: senior biologist Lu Wei leaves US government post for China
Professor Lu Wei, a senior investigator at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the latest Chinese academic to return home amid drastic funding cuts to university research grants by the Trump administration. He has taken up a full-time role with the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART), as announced on the organisation's official social media account on June 3. SMART president Yan Ning reposted the announcement, commenting: '[Lu] officially agreed to come to Shenzhen long before President Donald Trump's second term. His research field is fascinating.' Lu has long focused on the neurobiological mechanisms of synaptic development and functional regulation, as well as the effects of anxiety, depression , anaesthesia and alcohol. Lu's relocation back to China significantly bolsters the ambitions of Shenzhen, an open economic special zone, to become a national centre for biomedical research. Lu graduated with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from China's Sichuan University in 1997 and obtained a master's degree from Zhejiang University three years later.
Washington Post
7 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
This is what a war on knowledge looks like
On the wall of Ulrich Mueller's neurobiology lab at Johns Hopkins University is a map with pins that show all the different countries where his research fellows were born. It's a visual representation of what makes American science so powerful — and why that primacy is threatened. 'The brightest minds from around the world are drawn to conduct research here,' Mueller proudly told an interviewer for a campus journal last month. The freedom and diversity of American higher education have operated like a magnet, attracting the world's most brilliant minds and spinning off trillions of dollars in wealth.
