Like challenges, innovation first; Unconventional and adventurous. Mountain climbing, skiing, windsurfing, love to challenge all kinds of limits. At the age of 56, he led the "oldest team" to the top of Mount Everest, and completed the first research on plateau adaptive genes. Advocate "I know my genes, I am the master of my health", "eliminate several diseases and prolong my life"; It is often said that China is too small, the universe is too big and the earth is just right. We should serve the people first, and then let RMB and other currencies automatically serve us.
Known as "bandits", but pay attention to strategy; Fearless, but take life science seriously. Under his leadership, the young Huada team completed the mapping of the first China human genome in 2007, and after 2008, they successively launched the Yanhuang Project, the Thousand-Person Genome Project and the research on the metagenome of human gastrointestinal flora. In 20 10, BGI invested heavily to build the world's largest genome platform, and the sequencing business entered a period of great expansion, with revenue of 10 billion. And with the Gates Foundation, Autism Voice and other public welfare organizations to carry out scientific research cooperation, pay attention to the environment and the health problems of vulnerable groups.
20 1 1 won the CCTV China Economic Person of the Year Innovation Award. In 20 13, Complete Genomics in Silicon Valley was taken over by it regardless of all difficulties, becoming the first private institution in China to acquire a listed company in the United States, and was praised by international tycoons and foreign media as "a model of innovation in China".
But this is far from over. In Wang Jian's mind, new goals have been established. ...