On October 20, the opening ceremony of the Conference on Life Science and Health and Innovation Research Institute, sponsored by Zhengzhou University of Technology and co-organized by Henan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine, and Primary School Student Learning Newspaper, was successfully held in the academic lecture hall of Mingde Building, Yingcai Campus, Zhengzhou University of Technology.

 

Professor Edvard Moser, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gan Yong, secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhengzhou University of Technology, Bai Zhonghu, president of Zhengzhou University of Technology,Xue Shaoan, honorary senior researcher of the University of London, She Yuanbin, academician of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), Wu Jiong, a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and academic vice president of Zhengzhou University of Technology; Lin Feng, CEO of Superview Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Li Runsheng, researcher of the Shanghai Institute of Biomedical Technology, Li Haitao, doctoral supervisor of Jiangnan University and candidate of the National Overseas High-Level Talents Introduction Program, and Cao Yong, deputy secretary general of the Municipal Party Committee and director of Zhengzhou New Smart City Operation Center, attended the opening ceremony.

Lyu Tinglin, Cao Keshun, Gan Yong, and Bai Zhonghu jointly inaugurated four research institutes - the Institute for Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality, the Modern Food Science Research Institute, the Life science and Health Research Institute, and the Electronic Information Technology Research Institute. The opening of the four research institutes will certainly promote the scientific research level of Zhengzhou University of Technology. The university will take this as an opportunity to further strengthen school-enterprise cooperation, deepen industry-university-research cooperation, closely connect with industrial development, and serve local economic and social development. 

In accordance with the conference agenda, famous experts and scholars at home and abroad discussed and exchanged views on hot issues related to the theme of health, medicine, and life sciences after the opening and unveiling ceremonies. Among them, Professor Edvard Moser, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Space and Time in the Brain as a theme, described a series of frontier research projects on brain mechanisms he has made in the past decades and shared his latest research, On the Positioning of Time and Brain Perception.