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Chapter 40 Cold Spring Harbor

Well, Hu Wenhai was also surprised that he actually met the Loli version of Millachovovich here.

Well, I took back my previous impression. Hu Wenhai looked at Millachovovich again. Although this kid looks cute now, his coolness is already cold to the core.

After accepting Mao Mei and Millachovovich's apology and thanks again, Hu Wenhai bid farewell to them and continued to head into the Cordespring laboratory.

Many people may not be familiar with the name Corde Spring Laboratory, but if it were replaced by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, many people might suddenly realize it. If they mention the greatest contribution of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to the world in the 1990s, almost all people with a level of education above will inevitably give a thumbs up.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory can almost be said to be the key to the human gene era. Since the 1980s, its helmsman James Dewey Watson has been proposing the human genome deciphering project. From 1988 to 1993, he became the project host of the third largest scientific project after the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Project.

Before that, Watson had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine as early as 1962 for proposing the DNA double helix model.

It is conceivable how great it is to have Watson and be able to lead the Human Genome Project in the future.

However, when it comes to Watson, Hu Wenhai is really unable to put the dichotomy on him. In most people's impression, great scientists often seem to have a halo of "saints".

For example, Einstein, Newton, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Yuan Longping, these names will be more or less respectful when pronounced. Of course, Watson, who discovered the DNA double helix structure, should definitely pay high respect from humans.

But when it comes to character, Hu Wenhai is really a bit hard to say about this person's way of doing things. He is obviously not aware of the world. He has an oversight of intelligence and is also capable of managing his business as a subject leader. But if you say he is smart, he has various outrageous behaviors that ordinary people will not do, or even despicable.

If you really want to find a coordinate for him in history, this person probably, maybe, may have a little common language with Thomas Edison.

Watson is more like a willful genius who is spoiled by the world. He always observes the world with his own perspective and height from an ordinary person, and does not indulge in the openly doing all kinds of things that challenge the bottom line of ordinary people.

For example, he once publicly claimed that black people’s IQ is not as good as white people innately. He once swept laboratory scientists out under the name “I’m fat and I don’t want to see him” (this one cannot be tolerated).

If this is just the willfulness of a genius scientist, then many of Watson's behaviors are indeed despicable. For example, when he discovered the NDA double helix structure, he once obtained her research results without her knowledge by the client Rosalyn Franklin, which was a crucial causal relationship for Watson to later conclude that the DNA structure was crucial.

But after winning the Nobel Prize, Watson not only did not give Rosalyn Franklin the due respect, but instead publicly slandered her image and achievements in the later book "Double Helix", and distorted the grudge between her and Wilkins, another DNA structure discoverer.

If this matter alone doesn't mean anything, the ownership of another Nobel Prize will fully reveal his character.

The 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded again to two scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Philips Sharp and Richard Robert, in recognition of their findings of discontinuous genes.

However, this Nobel Prize was a complete mistake. Because of the discovery of the main reason for the discontinuous genetic achievements, or taking a step back, the important Chinese scientist Zhou Zhi was not nominated for Watson's prejudice, but Watson nominated two of his favorite students. All this is because Zhou Zhi was no longer in Lengquangang Laboratory at that time, and although she had worked in the United States for 28 years, she never became a US citizen!

Zhou Zhi's subsequent response to this was: "This is an irreversible fact, and we can only wait for the interested scientific historian to discover the truth."

The sourness among them is really speechless!

Fortunately, the project Hu Wenhai is going to commission this time can only be said to be a small shrimp, and he can't even get into the eyes of Watson, who is now at the peak of his life.

What came to receive him today was just a so-called "little boss" of Lengquangang Laboratory. The so-called little boss is the project manager who manages an experimental direction for the laboratory manager, which is somewhat similar to the department manager in the company.

Watson is the pillar of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Projects and investments are the tasks he needs to consider. After he determines a research direction, he will break down his ideas into fields, and then the bosses will realize or verify his ideas.

In Lengquan Port Laboratory, there are dozens of such small bosses, and they are really not a person who can stand out. But of course, if they get outside Lengquan Port, each of them is a well-known elite.

If Watson is a Dharmakaya-level master, then these little bosses can be regarded as a grandmaster of appearance.

"Hu, you should know that Lengquan Port Laboratory is a non-profit organization. We are not those technology development companies outside, we are Lengquan Port!" At this time, the young boss Andrew waved his hands righteously and looked at Hu Wenhai sitting on the sofa with a look down.

However, for some reason, Andrew's words were automatically filtered into another kind of content when they heard them so firmly.

"He is a clean and innocent courtesan, only the prefect Bai Yunhang can get there, but it is not comparable to small families like privately to the door."

After all, isn’t it just money?

Ahem...

Hu Wenhai pretended to cough, expelled this inexplicable thing from his mind, and said, "Mr. Andrew misunderstood. In fact, this is not a commissioned scientific research project, but a verification project. It is precisely because the Lengquan Port Laboratory is a non-profit laboratory, I hope it can be prepared by Lengquan Port and verify the actual effect of this new drug in my hands."

"New drug?" Andrew sat down when he heard Hu Wenhai's words and asked calmly: "Can I ask, is this a kind of drug?"

"This is a type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitor, and I have the chemical structure of this inhibitor on my hands. From its pharmacological mechanism, it may bring about the effect of dilating blood vessels to reduce the condition of patients with angina."

"A new heart disease drug? Have you finished developing it?" Andrew was obviously interested.

In fact, Lengquangang Laboratory is certainly impossible to rely entirely on national funding to maintain it. It is impossible to build Lengquangang Laboratory into a world-class medical laboratory based on public funds alone. In the industrial chain that transforms basic scientific research progress into products, Lengquangang Laboratory is also well-known.

But as Andrew said, with the reputation of Cold Spring Harbor, not everyone can cooperate with it.

But from another perspective, fame is just fame. Even the world's top laboratories also face the problem of monetization of fame. Among all cooperations, the most common way used by Lengquangang Laboratory is to cooperate with internationally renowned large pharmaceutical companies to apply some progress in their laboratories to the research and development of new drugs.

But since it is an internationally renowned large or even multinational enterprise, the two sides naturally cannot help but fight for the issue of who is the main and who is the second most. Such money is not easy to make. But in order to maintain the qualities, such projects cannot be left out.

Among all the cooperation methods, those who want to come to the door like Hu Wenhai will definitely be the most comfortable one to make money. Without developing new drugs, it will naturally not involve Lengquangang's R&D power. In fact, this project to verify new drugs can be said to be the best way to monetize the reputation of the laboratory, and it is only equivalent to endorsing the efficacy of this new drug.

If the drug is really effective and has passed the test from Lengquangang Laboratory, it is indeed harmless to the human body, or the side effects are acceptable, then you might as well promote it.

If there is any problem with the drug, then Lengquan Port Laboratory will also receive the money, so where can the things come from?

As for the problem I discovered after launching the market, it has nothing to do with Lengquan Harbor Laboratory - the drug was not invented by us, nor was it operated by me, and I did not apply my research and development results. What's the point of doing me?

After all, Lengquan Port Laboratory just provides some technical support!

"So that's it. You leave me a document on the specific situation of this medicine, and I will talk to Mr. Watson." Andrew nodded lightly to show that he would seriously consider this matter.

Hu Wenhai happily took out a document from his bag and handed it to Andrew and said: "The information about this medicine is here. The industrial synthesis method is asked by Lengquangang Laboratory to find a way to achieve it. You know that our Chinese pharmaceutical industry is still very backward, and in this regard, American equipment is more trustworthy."

"Haha, that's of course." Andrew smiled proudly: "I will hand over the information to Mr. Watson. As for the specific tariffs..."

"Three million US dollars, you can pay immediately after signing the contract!" Hu Wenhai said firmly.

"Okay, then I have no problem." Andrew shrugged easily, picked up the information in his hand and greeted him, and actually left on his own.

"What is this?" Watson, who is nearly sixty, is still energetic. He picked up the documents sent by Andrew from his desk and asked while looking.

"It's the drug developed by the Chinese some time ago that they hoped to use our laboratory to develop. They believed that this type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitor can dilate blood vessels and alleviate the condition of angina pectoris."
Chapter completed!
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