They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 159 The Second Madame Curie

Meng Heming took Zhang Wei's paper and came to Principal Gu's office.

"Principal, there is something I need to report to you in person. It is about Zhang Wei's scientific research project." Meng Heming said straight to the point.

"Have the funds been used up? So soon?" Principal Gu frowned slightly, and then relaxed: "I will go back to the finance department and ask him to allocate some more money! Anyway, the national scientific research funds have been released in the past two days. , just settle the account when the time comes.”

"It's not a matter of funding, it's a matter of the project." Meng Heming paused deliberately, and then said, "Zhang Wei's scientific research project has been completed!"

"Completed?" Principal Gu was stunned for a few seconds, and then asked: "Do you mean completed in stages, or completed in full?"

"Completed!"

"The funds haven't arrived yet? How come the project has been completed?" This was also the first time that Principal Gu encountered this situation.

"I didn't believe it at first, but it was indeed completed. This is the project report." Meng Heming handed over the project report.

Principal Gu flipped through it hastily, and then asked: "This report says that the nucleoside-modified mRNA successfully entered the target cells. I am not a biology major. Please tell me about this result. , can the project be considered completed?”

I still know something about this kid Zhang Wei. He is a money addict. If I don’t give him the remaining scientific research funds, he will have to come to my place to make trouble again!

Also, now that the project has produced results, you should pay more attention to writing the thesis. After all, it is a project that Zhang Wei went to your biology department to do. If the paper is published, you, the head of the department, need to provide more guidance! "

"I can't guide you!" Meng Heming's expression was like a deflated rubber ball, full of frustration.

"Has the paper been written? So quickly? Didn't the project just be completed? How can this paper be written in just a few weeks?" Principal Gu asked in surprise.

Principal Gu said, pondering for a few seconds, and then continued: "After the national funds arrive, we will first use them to equalize the funds advanced by the school. The remaining part should be returned to Zhang Wei's project first. Let’s see what he plans to do with the remaining funds.

"Even if the wording of the paper is very rigorous and the description is accurate, what about the professional aspect? At the academic level, it is impossible to find something that can be revised!" Principal Gu continued to ask.

"I'm talking about Lao Meng, Zhang Wei is now in your biology department. If you don't give guidance, who will guide you? Zhang Wei is a genius that is rare to see in a hundred years at Tsingta University. You can't give up at a critical moment!"

"He wrote this paper in three days, and he even took time to take the subject one exam on one of them."

"There should be no problem. The experimental records are complete, the experimental data is complete, the experimental results can be repeated, and when the experiment is repeated, a video is also specially recorded." Meng Heming replied.

"Just because he is a genius, I can't guide him." Meng Heming took out Zhang Wei's thesis again and handed it over: "Principal, this is the thesis. Zhang Wei has already written it."

"Okay, it's great if it succeeds! I didn't expect that this kid Zhang Wei is still a good person in scientific research! He completed the project in such a short time. If you think about it, this project shouldn't have cost too much money. ”

The dean of the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University cannot revise his student's thesis, and the student is still a freshman. How could Principal Gu believe that!

"Lao Meng, I know your abilities very well. But it's a bit strange that you can't come up with any suggestions for revision." Principal Gu frowned and lowered his voice and said, "You said this paper, do you think it's okay? has a problem?"

"Principal, maybe my ability is average and my level is limited!" Meng Heming's expression became more and more disappointed.

Principal Gu even felt that Meng Heming was just showing off!
"Principal, this is not an honorable thing. How can I lie to you?" Meng Heming said with a sad face.

Meng Heming responded in silence, with even a bit of embarrassment and shame on his face. This was obviously telling Principal Gu that I can't change it academically!
Principal Gu had a strange expression on his face: "Zhang Wei is still a freshman, right? He is only nineteen years old, right? You have been a professor for more than ten years, right? Even if Zhang Wei started studying biology from his mother's womb, at the academic level Can I compare with you? You can’t revise his paper?”

"What I mean is, could the content of the paper be borrowed from other places, so the paper looks more rigorous. Have you checked for plagiarism?" Principal Gu continued to ask in a low voice.

"You mean, you can't revise this paper?" Principal Gu showed an absurd expression.

"Yes. The research Zhang Wei applied for is the inhibition of RNA recognition by Toll-like receptors. The nucleoside-modified mRNA breaks through the immune system and successfully enters the target cells. In other words, Toll-like receptors do not recognize Looking at the results of nucleoside-modified mRNA alone, it can be said that Zhang Wei's project has been successful!" Meng Heming explained.

"What paper can be written in three days? I said, Lao Meng, you have to be responsible for entrusting such a good seedling to you! You have to educate him more, and you must do scientific research steadily, one step at a time, and you can't rush for success. Especially papers, which are the embodiment of scientific research results, need to be paid more attention to!" President Gu said seriously.

Meng Heming sighed helplessly: "The quality of this paper is very high, the wording is rigorous, and the narrative is accurate. It is no exaggeration to say that most professors in our biology department cannot write a paper of this level. I think I tried it more than ten times and couldn’t find anything that could be modified.”

"Principal, you know that checking for plagiarism is more complicated, so I haven't checked for plagiarism on this paper yet. However, Zhang Wei's scientific research results this time are new results, and no one else has published papers in this area. , it is even more impossible to learn from it," Meng Heming said.

"That's right. There is no place to copy the new results." Principal Gu nodded.

In 2004, technology and tools were still relatively limited, and paper plagiarism checking was more complicated than now. The automatic plagiarism checking tools at that time mainly used simple text comparison algorithms, such as cosine similarity, edit distance, etc., to detect plagiarism in papers. Duplicate content.

However, these tools may be limited by their algorithms and computing power and cannot handle large-scale databases or complex text patterns. Therefore, in addition to technical means, at that time it mainly relied on integrity education and self-discipline mechanisms in academia. The academic community generally emphasizes the importance of academic integrity, and there are also some methods such as academic review and peer review to supervise the quality and originality of papers.

It is precisely because the academic environment at that time emphasized academic integrity. For example, everyone's first reaction was to believe the academic results published by well-known scientists. This also made many academic frauds not discovered until many years later.

Meng Heming continued: "Principal Gu, there is one more thing I want to report to you. Zhang Wei hopes to find Professor Shi Yigong to be his reviewer."

"Ask Shi Yigong to review the manuscript? You are asking me to do it myself! Okay, I will contact Professor Shi later." Principal Gu nodded and agreed, and then said:

"But you have to tell me first. What is the level of Zhang Wei's research results in the field of biological sciences? If the level is not high, I would be embarrassed to bother Shi Yigong to review the manuscript."

Meng Heming took a deep breath and said excitedly, "This is a great scientific research result!"

"Great?" Principal Gu looked at Meng Heming in confusion, wondering, are you talking too much?

If a scientific research result can be rated as "leading level", it can be reported to the Ministry of Science and Technology and wait to receive awards.

If it can be called "major research results", such as the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award, etc., it can at least win one.

Once such an award is obtained, the state will provide corresponding support, such as project funding, technology transformation, industrialization, intellectual property achievement transformation, etc. Rewards for the main project leaders in terms of professional title promotion and academic honors are also indispensable. With such an award, it is a bonus when it comes to being evaluated as an academician.

What the hell is "great" used to describe it?

Just the words "great scientific research results" are out of the vulgar taste of rewards.

What kind of scientific research results can be called great? If you don’t save the world, you will be embarrassed to accept this word!
Faced with Principal Gu's doubts, Meng Heming said directly: "Principal, please read the last page of the paper."

Principal Gu directly turned to the last page of the paper, which introduced the future application direction of nucleoside modification.

"mRNA vaccine? What is this?"

Meng Heming immediately explained the mRNA vaccine to Principal Gu.

"Are you saying that this mRNA vaccine will be safer and more effective than the traditional inactivated vaccine, and the development and production cycle will be shorter?" Principal Gu asked.

"From a biological theory, if it can be successfully developed, it will be like this." Meng Heming nodded.

"Wait a minute, let me slow down!" Principal Gu picked up the tea cup and wanted to take a sip of tea to calm down his mood, but found that his hands could not help but tremble.

Although Principal Gu is not an expert in biology, he is very clear about what a more advanced vaccine means.

The words "Nobel Prize" kept flashing in Principal Gu's mind.

Louis Pasteur, the "Father of Vaccines" in history, did not win the Nobel Prize. The main reason was that he died in 1895, and the Nobel Prize was only awarded in 1901.

Looking at all the Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, those who study immunology are the most numerous. Many times, scientists can win a Nobel Prize by discovering a new immune mechanism.

If a more advanced vaccine is invented, it is only a matter of time before the Nobel Prize is awarded.

After a long time, Principal Gu finally calmed down and asked, "If, I mean if, this mRNA vaccine is really made and used on a large scale, is it possible for Zhang Wei to win the Nobel Prize?"

"As long as Zhang Wei is still alive by then, there is a 90% chance!" Meng Heming then added: "Throughout the history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, research related to immunology has won the most awards."

Principal Gu suddenly looked horrified: "Zhang Wei also has a graphene achievement! If you calculate it this way, wouldn't he be able to win the Nobel Prize twice?"

"Twice, two! Graphene should be research in the fields of physics and materials, right? This nucleoside modification is biology and immunology. The Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine are separate. ." Meng Heming continued.

"We have a second Madame Curie!" Principal Gu took a breath of air.

The next second, Principal Gu suddenly realized something else. He hurriedly picked up the phone and dialed the secretary's number.

"Contact the Intellectual Property Service Center immediately and ask Professor Ma to come over. Please keep this matter confidential!"

(End of this chapter)