godfather of surgery

Chapter 627 A blank piece of paper

The strong self-confidence in Yang Ping is like a unique label, Tang Shun can recognize it at a glance.

It was the same in Tokyo at that time. This self-confidence made all the Japanese feel dehydrated. To this day, there are still stories about Yang Ping and a manga about him circulating among medical students at the University of Tokyo.

Following Yang Ping are Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, and Tang Shun is also very familiar with these two.

When they were in Japan, Tang Shun served as their personal translator for a few days and became friends with them.

There are two foreigners following behind. If I guess correctly, the young red-nosed one is Robert, and the older one is August.

Before returning to China, Gao Qiao and Tang Shun introduced these two world famous masters who studied with Yang Ping.

Of course, it was Takahashi's idea to come to Sanbo. Takahashi said that joining Yang Ping's team has a bright future.

Even Takahashi knows the truth, how can I, Teacher Tang, not know.

It’s just that in my teacher Tang’s eyes, a career must achieve two functions before it can be called a career. One is to realize ideals, and the other is to earn money.

"Hello, Dr. Tang!" Yang Ping stretched out his hand.

Holding Yang Ping's hand, Tang Shun, who has always been confident, was a little flustered. He didn't expect that it would be Yang Ping himself who came to greet him. How could a man who could make Takahashi and all the proud people in Tokyo bow their heads and submit to him as a vassal? How could he run by himself? Come down to meet.

However, Tang Shun's nervousness was superfluous, except for the self-confidence in his body, Yang Ping did not give him any sense of oppression, but a feeling of ease and ease.

"This——" Yang Ping didn't dare to casually determine the identity of the girl next to Tang Shun, after all, the relationship between the characters is complicated now.

"This is my girlfriend, you can call her Qianxia." Tang Shun introduced generously.

Suzuki Chinatsu, a first-year undergraduate at the University of Tokyo, bowed shyly: "Please take care of me."
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General Surgery Yangpyeong's office.

Everyone sat down, Yang Ping met friends with tea, and the aroma of Longjing was wafting in the office.

Accompanied by Tang Fei, Tang Shun's little Japanese girlfriend took her to visit the hospital.

The little girl from Tokyo University bid farewell to Tang Shun in a sweet voice, and followed Tang Fei to visit Sanbo Hospital.

A few people exchanged pleasantries, and Yang Ping got straight to the point.

"Dr. Tang, we are currently launching a new project—stem cells to cultivate muscles. We want to use this research to open up a new world in the field of organ cloning. We intend to invite Dr. Tang to join us."

Song Zimo had chatted with him many times on WeChat, so he didn't need to make any preparations.

"I'd like to know Professor Yang's opinion on this topic?"

Tang Shun picked up the tea and sipped it slowly.

Robert and August blew a few breaths into the cup, swallowed the tea in one gulp after the tea cooled, and stared blankly at the empty cup, waiting for Xu Zhiliang to add tea.

"This is part of the materials of our project, you can take a look first." Yang Ping said, and Song Zimo handed the materials to Tang Shun.

Tang Shun flipped through the pages one by one: "Two technical routes are being pursued at the same time. Does this require enormous manpower and financial support? It's unrealistic."

Yang Ping shook his head: "The last thing we need to worry about is money. There is a special foundation to provide funds for our research. Now the funds on the books have exceeded one billion. This is just the beginning. You are familiar with the Anning Group, the Guo family in Southeast Asia, etc. , are our funding providers.”

Tang Shun was a little shocked. A hospital's laboratory actually had so much scientific research funds, but he immediately calmed down. The Anning Group is a new consortium. The Guo Group has no tradition of funding medical research before, and continuous funding may be a problem.

Tang Shun saw many things that were anticlimactic. At the beginning, he talked about the amount of funds to be provided, but after the first tranche of funds was in place, there was no further follow-up. Either the fund donors no longer paid attention to this matter, or the company itself had financial difficulties or even went bankrupt.

In China, enterprises fund scientific research institutions and lack tradition, so it is difficult to have persistence.

"I'm worried about the durability of funding for the project?" Tang Shunming said.

All academics are straight men, straight to the point, saving time and improving communication efficiency.

"I understand your concern, what do you think of the Duke Fund?"

Duke Fund?

The low-key and secretive aristocratic fund in Europe has funded many projects, among which Mr. Maninstein, the Nobel laureate, received funding from this fund.

Unexpectedly, the Duke Fund would also provide him with funds, Tang Shun was very surprised.

"One billion euros will be credited to the account soon, and you can talk to Mr. August about the Duke's fund in detail later." Yang Ping said calmly.

Tang Shun's mind has already started to stir up waves. With one billion RMB in the account and one billion euros to follow up, this kind of financial resources can fully support this huge project.

Unexpectedly, a hospital laboratory has such a fund-raising ability.

Tang Shun thought that only the laboratories of the University of Tokyo or prestigious American universities had this kind of fund-raising ability.

"If Dr. Tang is still worried about funding, I can also tell you that in the future our laboratory will have the world's largest supporter as a backing, no one can compare to it." Yang Ping sold a mystery.

"What do you mean?" Tang Shun didn't understand.

"Our country! I don't like to talk about feelings, but I also talk about feelings with Dr. Tang today. If the conditions are the same, I hope that Dr. Tang will choose us. Although this is only a college-level laboratory, we can do it in the future. To build it into a national-level laboratory, a world-class laboratory, based on our country's economic strength and emphasis on technology, coupled with our strength, I think it will not be difficult."

"Our first subject - the new technology of spinal external fixation, has successfully completed the experiment in a few months in cooperation with Union Medical College and Southern Metropolis Medical University. Now it is carrying out Phase III clinical trials in Europe, America and Japan. It is no exaggeration to say that this It is a world-class subject, and in this field, we are well-deservedly ahead of Europe, America and Japan.”

When Yang Ping should be proud, he doesn't act uselessly modest.

Tang Shun naturally knew about the new technology of spinal external fixation. Yang Ping was able to achieve what the Japanese dreamed of.

Tang Shun has carefully studied Yang Ping's spinal external fixator, which has a very high technical content, and there are many medical and engineering problems that need to be overcome.

The biomechanics laboratory of Dongda University and the Affiliated Hospital of Dongdaeho University worked together on spinal orthopedic devices. It took many years and a team of hundreds of people, but there was still no progress.

It must have taken Yang Ping's team a long time, but I was quite surprised to hear that it took a few months.

Tang Shun really wanted to know how many people the team took several months to achieve results.

"Professor Yang, the research team of spinal external fixation, I want to know how many people there are?"

Tang Shun feels that the core team has more than [-] people, and trial and error alone is a huge project. This kind of project should be completed by the cooperation of several universities and hospitals.

"In fact, this technology is just our small work, and the core team is just three of us!"

Yang Ping said slowly.

Tang Shun felt a huge wave in his heart now.

Spinal external fixator, this world-class technology, has only three core members?

Only Yang Ping, Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang?

Tang Shun believed this, because people like Yang Ping didn't need to brag, let alone bragging to themselves.

Tang Shun has always admired Musk. He has read his autobiography "Silicon Valley Iron Man", and he still remembers Musk's rocket team. Dozens of loose guys in slippers actually developed advanced rockets.

Now seeing Yang Ping, I can't help but think of Musk in my heart, and then feel a kind of admiration.

"Can I visit your laboratory?" Tang Shun was a little moved.

"Of course, our laboratory is upstairs, which is very convenient." Yang Ping knew that he was already moved.

Everyone took the elevator to the laboratory. The stem cell laboratory occupied an entire floor. Some graduate students were busy in the laboratory, some were playing table tennis in another entertainment room, and some were drinking coffee and reading magazines.

The members of the laboratory are also very casually dressed, many wearing T-shirts and shorts, looking very relaxed.

This kind of scene made Tang Shun feel very familiar again. It was a photo: behind it was an assembled rocket, and a group photo of a dozen people relaxed and comfortable, wearing T-shirts, jeans and slippers.

This rocket team with the Internet spirit of Silicon Valley has the courage to explore, keep trying and making mistakes, not afraid of failure, and finally complete the research and development of new rockets.

"There is a recreation room here, where you can listen to music, exercise, drink tea or coffee at any time, no one supervises you, and no one asks you to go to work, you can freely arrange your own work——" Yang Ping introduces the way of working in the future.

Tang Shun nodded, he just likes this kind of relaxed and tolerant working atmosphere, and he doesn't like the ascetic atmosphere in the laboratory of the University of Tokyo.

"In terms of equipment, we lack a cryo-electron microscope and need to borrow the equipment from Nandu Medical University, but we plan to buy a cryo-electron microscope, which can save experiment time."

The team moved in the corridor, and Yang Ping introduced the equipment in the laboratory.

It is normal to lack a dedicated cryo-electron microscope. Even at the University of Tokyo, the cryo-electron microscope is not private to a certain subject team, but public, and everyone uses it in turn.

"If you take the route of 3D printing, I don't know where Professor Yang will start?"

Tang Shun was already in a rage, Peng Bai, this place suits his appetite very much.

"The two routes are actually very difficult, and the 3D printing route is easier to control. For example, stem cells grow muscles, and the cultivation method may not be able to obtain the fine structure you want. For example, a designated part needs a thicker artery to communicate with the recipient. 3D printing is easy to achieve this kind of customization, but 3D printing must go deep into the anatomical research of the target organ to a very fine level. To complete real 3D printing, the collected anatomical data is massive, and it is estimated that supercomputers will be used to Completing this level of calculation and printing, the total length of the nerves, arteriovenous, and lymphatic vessel structures of a muscle can circle the earth. There is a lack of fine anatomical data, which is why 3D printing cannot complete simple cartilage printing now, and cannot be replicated Fine anatomy, like an airplane, is just a model, but the internal engine and so on cannot be copied, and of course it cannot fly into the sky.”

"The 3D printing route is much simpler than the cultivation technology in the biological stage. He only needs to cultivate a large number of various living cells, and then use these living cells as raw materials to complete the printing of organs, without deciphering the human body's various regulations in the process of organ formation. , and the entire project of the cultivation route is even bigger. The construction of organs is completed at the biological level from beginning to end, and the investment in human gene expression and regulation research is greater. It is not known which one is better. Printing is better, and later on, there is no distinction between the two, and the two routes will see which one achieves a breakthrough first." Yang Ping briefly expressed his understanding.

This is the case with scientific research. Sometimes when several routes are advanced in parallel, the first breakthrough will naturally gain an advantage.

Tang Shun agreed with Yang Ping's understanding.

The complexity of an organ is beyond imagination, which is why an apple can easily grow on a tree, but humans cannot duplicate an apple.

The two routes have different ways of solving the problem, one is to figure out the information contained in the seed, and the other is to figure out the information contained in the apple.

Tang Shun highly respects first principles, that is, reducing things to their essential essence.

Stem cells to cultivate muscle, if you really want to succeed, you must start from scratch, and other scientific research results can only be used for reference, and absolutely cannot be researched on the basis of other results.

If muscles are to be printed, the most thorough and complete study of their anatomy is necessary.

Restoring the foundation, rebuilding the house.

"My laboratory cooperates with Southern Metropolis Medical University and Southern Metropolis Institute of Technology, and borrows the cryo-electron microscope of Southern Metropolis Medical University and the supercomputer of Southern Metropolis Institute of Technology to plan to slice a single layer of cells in the muscle, and then scan it with an electron microscope to perform a fine three-dimensional composition of the entire muscle to obtain The subtle anatomy of muscles." Yang Ping said the plan.

It is a huge and complicated task to perform a slice scan of a single layer of cells in the muscle, and the data is massive.

Tang Shun stopped in his tracks, it was the first time he heard that someone was going to do such a massive amount of work.

The professional division of labor makes everyone "lazy" and always likes to use doctrine. For things other than professional, they always use it directly, and I don't know if it is suitable.

Therefore, those engaged in stem cell research never really study the anatomy of target organs, and those who study anatomy do not study the structure of organs from the perspective of stem cell cultivation of organs.

Yang Ping wants to start from multiple disciplines and do the most basic research again, which coincides with his own ideas.

But can manpower and financial resources sustain it?

Considering these things is too foresight, it seems that this career has met my first requirement.

What about the second requirement?

treatment?

Tang Shun is a person who is very sensitive to money. He doesn't want to engage in scientific research with a meager salary, or worry about living when he doesn't want to do scientific research.

"I really want to know, if I stay, how will I be treated?"

Tang Shun is very direct.

Yang Ping didn't speak, and none of the accompanying personnel spoke. Tang Shun smiled: "Am I being too straightforward?"

"No! You are very frank. As for the treatment, I don't think there is any need to talk about it. We are ready, Song Zimo?" Yang Ping also smiled.

Song Zimo sent a document board with only a blank piece of paper and a pen clipped on it.

A blank sheet of paper, what does it mean?
Tang Shun didn't understand.

Yang Ping said lightly: "You write the salary and all requirements on this piece of paper, and I will do it!"

(End of this chapter)