The news about Yan Ning, a professor at Tsinghua University, “leaving Princeton University with anger” was spread on WeChat these days. Let everyone think that she left with anger.
Today, Professor Yan Ning personally refuted the rumor in the circle of friends and Weibo, and also refuted the rumor three times.
Surging news reporter Han Xiaotong Wang Yingying
Yan Ning, a 39-year-old professor from Tsinghua University and a famous scientist, has settled his tenure as a professor at Princeton University.
On May 9, the relevant person in charge of Tsinghua University said to the surging News () that Professor Yan Ning, School of Life, Tsinghua University, had carefully considered and communicated with the college and school leaders, it has been decided to accept Shirley M from the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University. The position of tenured chair Professor Tilghman will be held in the near future.
The person in charge said Yan Ning chose to return to Princeton University again. Tsinghua University believes that this will help spread Chinese academic thoughts, educational ideas and Tsinghua’s academic style to the international academic arena, have a greater impact. Tsinghua University maintains an open, optimistic and positive attitude towards this.
In 2000, Yan Ning started his doctoral career in Princeton University, and he studied as Professor Shi Yigong, the current vice president of Tsinghua University. In 2007, Yan Ning, who was only 30 years old, came back from Princeton University to teach in Tsinghua University, his alma mater, and became the youngest doctoral supervisor in Tsinghua at that time.
“Tsinghua is kind, generous and steady. Princeton is elegant, calm and Noble. These are my two favorite places in my life.” Yan Ning once said this in an interview with the media.
In September 2016, Yan Ning gave a speech. Intern Feng Yuanqing Zhu Yawen (04:52)
Yan Ning had previously refuted the rumor that “being employed at Princeton University was a negative departure”: Nonsense
Previously, an article named “Professor Yan Ning of Tsinghua University is about to join Princeton, which has got angry with the fund review!” The public account article of is spread in WeChat circle of friends.
On May 7th, Yan Ning forwarded the article in the circle of friends, thinking that it “took out the meaning out of context” and “pinched her head and tailed” the old article of her blog ↓
Yan Ning WeChat circle of friends
Then he refuted the rumor on Weibo, “What’s the matter if I don’t go to Princeton Fund Committee?” Yan Ning wrote: “I was asked by countless people whether this article is true or not. It is obviously inexplicable and nonsense.”
Yan Ning Weibo rumor
Finally, Professor Yan Ning also asked Tsinghua University to help her officially refute the rumor ↓
After reading the old article “a failed fund application” of Yan Ning’s blog quoted by the public account, I saw that Yan Ning told the story of 2014, in 2015, I applied for the key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China with the project “structure and mechanism of glucose transporter”, but I didn’t get the opportunity to reply.
However, on the website of the Science Foundation Network information system of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, according to incomplete statistics from the query results, since Yan Ning returned to China to teach in 2007, there are at least 6 approved projects in charge of her, and the total approved funds are 8.21 million yuan. Among them, research projects related to glucose transporter are also listed.
In this way, “Yan Ning was hired by Princeton, in fact, he ran away with anger. The direct reason for negative anger is that the domestic scientific research system makes her unable to carry out the scientific research projects she wants to do “and such speculation is untenable.
Yan Ning: Afraid of being in an environment for a long time and not knowing
Yan Ning replied to the surging news through Tsinghua University, saying that since 2015, she has received employment invitations from many famous research institutions in Europe and America one after another. After careful consideration, she finally decided to be employed by the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University Shirley M. Tilghman lifetime chair professor.
Yan Ning said it was not an easy decision, because in the past 10 years, she has received excellent support in Tsinghua University, with excellent students, excellent and friendly colleagues who gave her motivation and pressure, school and college management departments who gave her full support, etc. Supported by these incomparable software and hardware conditions, her scientific research achievements even exceeded her expectations at the beginning of her return to Tsinghua.
But at the same time, she is afraid that she will stay in an environment for a long time, and may be self-appointed without knowing it; Changing an environment is to give herself some new pressure and stimulate herself to get inspiration, I hope to make new breakthroughs in science.
Yan Ning said that Tsinghua University and Princeton University are both her alma mater, and it has always been her ideal to teach in these two alma mater which made her proud. She was very happy that Tsinghua University extended an olive branch to her 10 years ago, and Princeton University also extended an olive branch to her 2 years ago, making her dream come true. With her love and familiarity with Tsinghua, she will do her best to promote exchanges and cooperation between Princeton and other first-class foreign universities and Tsinghua, which is also a way for her to repay her alma mater at this stage.
Yan Ning Xiaochuan
According to Guangming Daily News, Yan Ning, from 1996 to 2000, studied in the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University, and then went to the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University in the United States to study for a doctor’s degree. He was a professor of Shi Yigong, engaged in cell apoptosis research, in December 2004, he passed the doctoral thesis defense.
In 2005, he won the “Young Scientist Award (North America)” selected by Science magazine “.
In October 2007, after completing postdoctoral training in Princeton, he was employed Tsinghua University School of Medicine and became the youngest professor and doctoral supervisor in Tsinghua at that time.
Yan Ning is in the laboratory of Princeton University.
During the 10 years in Tsinghua University, Yan Ning mainly used Structural Biology & Biochemistry methods to systematically study the structure and mechanism of trans-membrane transport proteins related to important diseases, led his research team to obtain a series of original basic scientific research achievements with international influence, including analyzing the high-resolution crystal structure of glucose transporter (GLUTs) that has been struggling for decades in the world, and the three-dimensional structure of voltage-gated sodium ions and calcium ion channels with important physiological and pathological functions, among which the structure of glucose transporter has been collected by the latest edition of International Classical biochemistry textbooks.
Since 2009, Yan Ning, as a communication author, has published 17 scientific research papers in the three major international journals of nature, science and cell, training 7 doctoral students; its research results were cited by the top ten annual progress of science in 2009 and 2012; In 2016, Yan Ning was rated as one of the ten “stars of Chinese science” by nature.
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The news about Yan Ning, a professor from Tsinghua University, “leaving Princeton University with anger” was spread on WeChat these days. Let everyone think that she left with anger. Today, Professor Yan Ning personally refuted the rumor in the circle of friends and Weibo, and also refuted the rumor.