Int'l Symposium on Environmental Genomics, Pharmacogenetics Opens in ShanghaiAn international symposium on environmental genomics and pharmacogenetics opened Monday in Shanghai, with nearly 300 experts from home and abroad participating.The four-day event is being hosted by the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai (CHGCS) and the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute of the United States. Chen Zhu, CHGCS director and vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a speech on the progress and future of genomics research in China. He spoke of the great significance to human health of studies into environmental and genomic factors and the huge economic potential involved. Chen noted that China's huge population gives it a big advantage in environmental genomics and pharmacogenetics studies, but he pointed out that easy success is out of the question even for Chinese scientists, who shall have to prepare themselves for long and strenuous work. |
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