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President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê

19 December 2008

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  • On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Professor Michael Worton, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Vice-Provost (Academic and International) welcomed to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Lu Yongxiang, and seven of his colleagues.

    The purpose of the visit was to share with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê staff the details of China's scientific research priorities in the coming years, and to explore possible areas for future collaboration in the fields of information and communication technologies, space science, advanced energy science, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and new materials, medicine; advancedÌý industrial biotechnology, modern agricultural sciences, ecology and environmental science, natural resource and marine science.

    Professor Moira Yip, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's Special Advisor for China, chaired a series of meetings between the delegation and a number of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's leading academics who currently have scientific collaborations in China. Professor Yip outlined the extraordinary range and depth of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's research links with China, while Professor Steven Caddick explained Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's research strengths in Chemistry and Nanotechnology, and Professor Peter Mobbs detailed Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's research strengths in Life Sciences.

    Professor Lu and his colleagues then visited the London Centre for Nanotechnology (led by Professor Gabriel Aeppli) and the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Chemistry laboratories (led by Professor Geoff Thornton).

    At the end of the visit, Professor Yip hosted an evening reception at which Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê staff from a further seven disciplines were able to meet with theÌý Chinese delegation, to discuss their own future plans (and in severalÌý cases, to re-affirm long standing personal friendships). These Ìý were: Professor Robert A. Brown, Director of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Tissue Repair & Engineering Centre; Professor Bernard Buxton, Dean of Faculty of Engineering Sciences;Ìý Professor Steve Currall,Ìý Head of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Management Science and Innovation; Professor Peter Dayan, Director of Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit; Professor Mohan Edirisinghe, Head of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Mechanical Engineering; Dr Jie Huang, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Mechanical Engineering, Professor RaymondÌý Macallister, Director of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Professor Nick Tyler, Head of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.