Prof. Peter Gruss, president of the Max Planck Society (MPS) and a winner of China's National Award for International S&T Cooperation in 2007, has long been committed to promoting the scientific cooperation between China and Germany. As early as in the 1980s, he went to Shanghai to teach advanced experimental techniques at the Guest Laboratory cosponsored by CAS and MPS. Since 2002 when he assumed the office of MPS president, Prof. Gruss has further strengthened the partnership between the two organizations. Under his leadership, more CAS-MPS Partner Groups and Junior Research Groups were established. In 2005, the CAS-MPS Partner Institute for Computational Biology, a joint venture run in accordance with the MPS model of academic management, made her debut in Shanghai, marking a new phase of the strategic partnership. In May 2006, a bilateral agreement was signed for jointly training doctoral students, further opening a new field of collaboration. Recently, the Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (BCAS) conducted an interview with Prof. Peter Gruss, looking at the prospects of future networking.
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