Invited by President Professor Chen Xin Winner of 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry -Professor Kurt W thrich from ETH Zurich visited GDUT and made a report on November 30, 2010. Besides Professor Kurt W thrich, the visiting guests also included Professor Kurt W thrich s wife, Consul General of Consulate General of Switzerland in Guangzhou Mr. Ulrich Hunn and his wife, and Project Director of Swissnex Ms. Ingrio Fischer. University leaders, led by President Professor Chen Xin, met the visiting guests.
President Professor Chen Xin first expressed his welcome to the guests and introduced the latest development of Guangdong Province and GDUT. He emphasized that Guangdong's economy has got its rapid development since China s reform and opening up in 1978. Now Guangdong s total economic output has ranked first in China, accounting for one seventh of the economic output of Chinese Mainland. As a key university in Guangdong Province, the introduction of high-end talent and application of advanced technologies would be of paramount importance to the University s further development. He hoped that Professor Kurt W thrich, his groups and GDUT could promote substantive cooperation in various fields, such as joint research, exchange of researchers and exchange of information.
Professor Kurt W thrich expressed his gratitude for Professor Chen s warm reception. He said that China's rapid development was obvious to all and he himself has kept communication with Chinese colleagues and visited universities in China every year. He said that he was willing to contact professors of relevant field in GDUT to discuss the possibility of cooperation.
After the meeting, Professor Kurt W thrich made a report entitled "Basic and Applied Research for Improved Quality of Human Life" for the university teachers and students and exchanged views with them on various topics.
Professor Kurt W thrich shares his time between the positions of Visiting Scientist at TSRI and Professor of Biophysics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is also Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the Z rich-based National Center of Competence in Research Structural Biology (NCCR Structural Biology). His research interests are in molecular structural biology, protein science and structural genomics. His specialty is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with biological macromolecules, where he developed the NMR method for three-dimensional structure determination of proteins and nucleic acids in solution (solution resembles the environment of body fluids in living organisms). The W thrich groups have solved more than seventy NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids. For his work, Professor Kurt W thrich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. Excerpt from the Nobel press release: The possibility of analyzing proteins in detail has led to increased understanding of the processes of life. Researchers can now rapidly and simply reveal what protein molecules look like in solution and can then understand their function in the cell. This method has revolutionized the development of new pharmaceuticals. Promising applications are also being reported in other areas, for example foodstuff control and early diagnosis of breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Professor Kurt W thrich shares his time between the positions of Visiting Scientist at TSRI and Professor of Biophysics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is also Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the Z rich-based National Center of Competence in Research Structural Biology (NCCR Structural Biology). His research interests are in molecular structural biology, protein science and structural genomics. His specialty is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with biological macromolecules, where he developed the NMR method for three-dimensional structure determination of proteins and nucleic acids in solution (solution resembles the environment of body fluids in living organisms). The W thrich groups have solved more than seventy NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids. For his work, Professor Kurt W thrich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. Excerpt from the Nobel press release: The possibility of analyzing proteins in detail has led to increased understanding of the processes of life. Researchers can now rapidly and simply reveal what protein molecules look like in solution and can then understand their function in the cell. This method has revolutionized the development of new pharmaceuticals. Promising applications are also being reported in other areas, for example foodstuff control and early diagnosis of breast cancer and prostate cancer.
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