Help Wanted: 2000 Leading Lights To Inject a Spirit of Innovation

摘要

Created just 5 years ago, the National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) in Beijing is hailed-and envied-as a sanctuary where a select group of scientists is sheltered from China's patronage-driven funding system. So it was a major boost when officials announced earlier this month that biochemist Wang Xiaodong, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, not only would stay on for a second term at the helm of NIBS but also will close his lab in the United States and return to China for good. "There is no turning back," Wang says.