In order to decide whether or not to continue PCR, President Cha organized five project teams and discussed them frequently for two days.
On the last day, the conclusion is still "do".
This conclusion is not unexpected.
In other words, everyone is looking forward to such a result.
To sum up, including Zhang Leshan and director Zhao, all the leaders and members of the five project teams are confident and promising middle-aged and elderly researchers. Their goal was to let Yang Rui teach them directly, and then they crossed the PCR stage and went straight to the second generation PCR.
Now, in the case that no one can repeat the experiment of the first generation PCR, the second generation PCR has become a castle in the air, and can only be done one by one.
"In this case, the funds should be increased." What director Zhao thinks in his mind is different from Zhang Leshan and others, but the goal is the same.
Not everyone is full of achievements. Director Zhao, for example, loves money.
For people engaged in scientific research, the best way to embezzle scientific research funds is to do scientific research and make achievements in scientific research.
It's also an SCI. Others spend 20000 on average, but you spend 40000. Even if the leaders don't investigate, they will look at you more.
Therefore, if you want to embezzle funds, you have to use 10000 yuan to publish SCI, and then report 18000 yuan. The embezzlement funds mentioned here actually take the funds to your own home, which is different from the research done by embezzling funds.
Most scholars are generous in misappropriating funds. They report more and sell more, and they have less psychological burden. But when they come home with money, they often have to find some good projects and big projects.
Like director Zhao, he took a fancy to PCR.
As for others, even if they don't want to embezzle money, they need money to do experiments.
The only one who can decide the funding is president cha.
Everyone's eyes were on President cha.
President Cha said with great pressure: "on the president's side, we are cutting down the project budget every day, and the PCR project is only launched under special circumstances. It's hard to say that the 800 thousand fund that we agreed on will increase in an instant."
"Director Cha, if you can find Yang Rui, I think you can copy the PCR without 800000 or 500000, but now you can't find anyone."
"It's not a small thing to redo PCR... On the US side, how's the contact going?" President Cha is still undecided.
"Americans still have no problem cooperating with the second-generation PCR, but they are only willing to pay for the research of the second-generation PCR. We need to make the first-generation PCR in order to get the American funding."
"How much?"
"I didn't say that, but it's very nice to talk about." Speaking of this, Zhang Leshan said excitedly: "I listen to the Americans. As long as we are willing to give them a certain share, they are at least willing to pay millions." Zhang Leshan gave a pause and said, "dollars!"
Not only president Cha, but also several people's eyes lit up. For researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, tens of millions of yuan is very attractive, but it is also common. A few million dollars is different. If all of them can be put into the project team, it will be more than rare. It's like having a new job.
Director Zhao said uneasily: "when Huarui laboratory did PCR, it was said that it spent tens of millions of dollars."
"It's also cost-effective. Besides, we have research direction, data and articles. We can't spend more than him." What Zhang Leshan said is quite reasonable. The difficulty of PCR lies in creativity. If creativity is left out, the difficulty of PCR is not high. On the contrary, the difficulty of heat-resistant polymerase is higher. Of course, such analysis is based on world-class standards
The former West company, the original author of PCR, With two Nobel laureates, it took the company more than a year to complete the PCR.
The most difficult part of the experiment is that the small part is difficult to grasp, and the data often deviates because of the small part.
The most troubling thing is that the small parts are often what you don't see in the literature.
Yang Rui also spent several months on this. Before that, he did a lot of preparatory work and did a lot of targeted exercises. It can be said that when repeating PCR technology, Yang Rui's speed was very fast.
However, the work in the laboratory has always been easy to be ignored.
Yang Rui's hard work did not fall into the eyes of Zhang Leshan and others. They only knew that Yang Rui had spent several months, and they took it for granted that he had more people and more instruments. If he did the experiment again, he would do it better and faster than Yang Rui.The self-confidence of several project team leaders affected president Cha, who finally made up his mind and said, "you do the budget. I'll go to the president and say, in any case, we should keep the American funds. In addition, we should seize the time. "
"It took Yang Rui half a year to make it. If we work in five groups, we can have an eye for it in two or three months. At that time, as long as we have a thorough understanding of PCR, the second generation is expected to be a bit attractive." Director Zhao heard about the funds and budget, and immediately became strong.
Zhang Leshan coughed and said, "what do we say about the American share problem?"
"How much do they want?"
"No, listen to them. The more shares they give, the more money they are willing to give."
"It's not impossible to sell it to them. You just follow the vitamin C plan." After a pause, President Cha said, "it's best to earn foreign exchange through export."
The two-step production of vitamin C is a world-class invention in China's biological industry. In short, the cost of a vitamin tablet used to cost a few yuan. The two-step production of vitamin C by the Chinese people, in the form of total synthesis and cheap total synthesis, instantly reduces the cost of vitamin tablets to a few cents, not a few cents per tablet, but a few cents per 100 Tablets.
Before China's health care industry re invented vitamin C and distinguished plant vitamin C, mineral vitamin C or natural vitamin C, the two-step production of pure and impurity free vitamin C scared several pharmaceutical giants, especially Roche pharmaceutical, into a cold sweat. Facing a billion level market collapse, several pharmaceutical giants had to hold a meeting with wet crotch.
This is not a Chinese style romance novel, but the ending is a Chinese style romance novel.
Through various means, Roche and other companies bought all the patents and methods for the two-step production of vitamin C. then, instead of putting it into production, they did not hesitate to hide it. They continued to use backward production technology to produce expensive vitamin C tablets and continue to enjoy the dividend of this billion market, Until the patent for two-step production of vitamin C expired.
However, for research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they rarely have the opportunity to earn foreign exchange through export.
The technology of producing vitamin C by two steps can sell millions of dollars in price. In their eyes, almost all bubbles are white. So far, Roche has not shown the intention of hiding the patent.
From the perspective of President Cha, this kind of selling method is already very cost-effective.
Zhang Leshan also thought so and said confidently: "I will have a good talk with them and strive to create value for the courtyard.
In fact, everyone is so confident that no one cares about the real structure of the patent ownership of PCR. A few people present have no such concept at all. They think more about the value of the technology itself.
A group of people excited to return, began to work hard to do high budget.
Whether it's for the sake of making contributions or for the sake of our beloved money, our goal is the same.
Americans on the other side of the ocean are also excited.
After DuPont gave up the appeal, the property right of PCR was very clear. It was heard that China was willing to cooperate in the development of the second generation PCR, and was willing to release part of its equity. Several private companies that got information through the Ministry of energy were very active.
Darbeko, a consultant of the Ministry of energy, was also surprised and showed efficient judgment. The Ministry of energy paid for the cooperation with China. However, darbeko, who is familiar with Yang Rui, tries to contact Yang Rui while paying for it.
At the same time, the Ministry of energy and private companies have also commissioned lawyers to go to China. Naturally, the patentee has to sign for equity or something, which is a necessary process before paying.