Professor Gregory, director of the gastroenterology department at Wellington Hospital in England, called Chen Xia and told him that this year's Nobel Prize nominations would be announced soon, and asked Chen Xia to go to Europe to meet him no matter what.
When Chen Xia heard this, he didn't care about anything else. He immediately sent a special plane to the mainland to pick up Chen Chun and Xuan Yongda, and flew to Europe all at once.
After so many years of hard work, the critical moment has finally arrived.
The nomination and award rules for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
Generally, the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute first appoints a working committee, which is the Nobel Committee, to be responsible for the preliminary work.
This nomination is not proposed by governments, nor is it applied for by individuals or companies, but is based on an invitation system.
The Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute sends out invitations to medical professors and institutions around the world every year, with each invitation amounting to two to three thousand.
Generally, they include members of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, foreign medical and biological academicians of the Swedish and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize winners of all time, or other prestigious doctors around the world, etc.
Then, based on the two to three thousand invitations received, several of the most popular and concentrated medical events or individuals will be selected to form a final shortlist and sent to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Academy of Sciences then votes and selects the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine by majority vote.
The Swedish Academy has the final say.
So, if you want to win the Nobel Prize, there are two hurdles you need to overcome.
The first stage is the "public judges". Only when at least the majority of two or three thousand medical experts recommend you can you be selected into the nomination list.
The second stage is the "professional judges" from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Karolinska Institute. They are like the four mentors on The Voice of China. Whether they turn around or not determines whether you can win the award.
The rules of the game can be said to be relatively fair, but they can only be described as "relatively fair."
Because the public judges can be influenced, and professors in the academy of sciences and medical schools can also be manipulated by public relations.
Chen Chun had been nominated for the Nobel Prize once in 1990, but due to some special reasons, he did not win the prize in the end.
Chen Xia attaches great importance to this Nobel Prize, because it is not only a recognition of a doctor's contribution, but also the highest academic honor.
More importantly, the Nobel Prize is definitely a living advertisement and a direct manifestation of a country's enhanced scientific and technological strength.
But for Four Seasons Hospital, or Margaret Hospital, this is definitely the best advertisement to catch up with the Premier League and the United States.
The number of Nobel Prize winners a hospital or medical research institution has is directly related to the hospital's level and grade in the world.
Is there any better advertisement than this?
Why does Chen Xia spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to maintain so many medical laboratories?
Why do we need to set up two organ transplant centers? Not only do we require them to have the highest success rate in the world for their operations, but we also require them to carry out research projects and publish as many papers as possible.
In fact, it is a preparation for the future Nobel Prize.
Chen Chun's "Discovery of Helicobacter pylori that causes gastritis and gastric ulcers" was only the first topic to apply for the Nobel Prize.
Chen Xia intentionally or unintentionally took out other information, focusing on the new technologies and research they were asked to carry out. There is actually a lot to consider here.
Such as "Gene Targeting Technology", "Genetic Regulatory Mechanism of Organ Development and Programmed Cell Death", "A New Biological Theory of Infection Explained by Protein Infectious Agents", "Nitric Oxide is a Signaling Molecule in the Cardiovascular System", etc.
These are the projects for which Chen Xia won the Nobel Prize in his previous life, and they are also important topics for promoting the progress of human biology and medicine.
If there are more than five Nobel Prize winners in the five major laboratories and one organ transplant center run by Chen Xia.
Think about how high the international status of Four Seasons Hospital and Margaret Hospital is?
A high status means that patients are more willing to trust Four Seasons Group, and traffic can be converted into money.
Don’t talk about whether it is noble or not. It is true that opening a hospital is for the advancement of human medicine and health, but it is also for making money. Hospitals that do not make money should be public hospitals sponsored by the government.
On the plane, Chen Chun and Xuan Yongda were both very nervous. The Chinese people had been longing for the Nobel Prize for a long time without knowing when.
Chen Chun said quietly, "Xiao Xia, do you think we have a good chance of success this time?"
Chen Xia nodded firmly:
"It has to be high this time. In preparation for your award, I even handed over my antibiotic patent. The World Health Organization has also pledged its full support for your winning the award.
And not only are we preparing, but England's Wellington Hospital, as well as international pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, have also all supported our Nobel Prize application. This time, we're going all out."
Xuan Yongda smacked his lips. "This is our second time applying. Regardless of whether we win or not, at least we've created two nominations for the country. This is also an honor."
Chen Xia laughed: "Director Xuan, we are not the first Chinese to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine."
Xuan Yongda was a little puzzled: "Who was the first Chinese to nominate?"
"Professor Wu Lien-teh, the main organizer of Union Hospital, was nominated for the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in bacteriology, but unfortunately he didn't win."
"Is that so?"
Xuan Yongda felt a little regretful that Chinese people like to be the first in everything, because the first place is often easily remembered by the world.
Chen Xia was amused when she saw the expressions of her elder sister and Lao Xuan:
"Professor Wu was the first to be nominated, so you two could be the first to win. Wouldn't that be even more glorious?"
"Oh, yes, hehe~~~"
After more than ten hours of flight, the plane landed at London Airport. When Chen Xia and others arrived at Wellington Hospital, GlaxoSmithKline manager Chris Grayling, Professor Gregory and others were already waiting.
Chen Xia was an old friend of these people, so he went straight to the point without much greetings.
"Is it okay to nominate now?"
Manager Grayling showed Chen Xia and his group a densely packed form:
"Chen, we've hired a public relations firm to lobby. According to the feedback so far, our Helicobacter pylori research project is currently ranked first among the 3,000 candidates."
There are 3,000 medical celebrities scattered in different countries. It is obviously impossible for Pumpkin Vine and GlaxoSmithKline to visit each of them one by one. Therefore, according to international practice, they hired a public relations company to handle the operation.
It's not vote-buying. It mainly involves giving them subscription rights to international medical journals, supporting them to participate in some multinational academic conferences, giving them a complete set of information on Helicobacter pylori, etc.
Chen Xia looked at the check marks on the roster, which represented people who agreed with the opinions, and he felt relieved.
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