China, France Set Up Joint Life Science Research Center

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China, France Set Up Joint Life Science Research Center

China and France launched their biggest ever research program on life science and human genome research over the weekend in Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial center.

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China and France launched their biggest ever research program on life science and human genome research over the weekend (April 13 to 14) in Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial center.

At a ceremony to unveil the Sino-French Life Science and Genome Center, Liu Yanhua, Chinese vice-minister of Science and Technology, said the research program had the support of the Chinese and French governments.

Gilles Le Chatelier, a French official with the Ministry of Research, was present at the ceremony.

The center pools research resources from the Shanghai-based Institute of Life Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, local medical schools, and three French national research institutions, including the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Medical Research.

Their research will include the sequencing and functional research of some genomes, such as a comparative research on the effect of the mutation of the human genome on diseases.

Chen Zhu, director of the center and vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said their research programs at present involved efforts to identify the genes related to leukemia, hepatitis and schistosome.

Sino-France Life Science Lab/Research Mulled

Recently a French delegation went on a visit to Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai and discussed with the hospital on establishing a Sino-France life science lab for carrying out scientific research with the local Chinese scientists.

According to the under-discussion plan, joint research would be carried out on key scientific subjects, aiming at developing the two countries' life science.

Under an open floating system, the lab to be established will develop and be turned into a world first-class base for a multi-course new-tech research and development, run as a cooperative part linked to other domestic research units and even the whole international cooperative network.

A joint academic committee, composed of Chinese and French experts, would operate the lab as well as select, appraise, and supervise subjects and scientists. Both sides will appoint a scientist as director of the lab to be launched. The Chinese and French governments jointly would be responsible for the lab's outlays incurred.

Meanwhile, the two sides would share all research results, including theses, patents, copyrights, and intellectual property rights in accordance with international practice.

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