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Professor of Zhejiang University won the brain research award. He is the first person in Asia

'strength and appearance burst table! ' Recently, a female professor of Zhejiang University has aroused the exclamation of countless netizens. She is Hu Hailan who recently won the IBRO kemali international award. This is the first time that the award has been awarded to scientists outside Europe and North America since its establishment in 1998.

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On July 15, 2019 Beijing time, the Award Committee of IBRO kemali foundation, an international brain research organization, announced that the winner of the 12th IBRO kemali international award is Professor Hu Hailan of the neuroscience research center of the Medical College of Zhejiang University, China.

According to Zhejiang University, the award aims to commend scientists under the age of 45 who have made outstanding contributions in the field of basic and clinical neuroscience all over the world. One is selected every two years. The prize is 25000 euros. The winners will be invited to give a keynote speech at the largest biennial European Neuroscience conference in Europe.

Hu Hailan is a distinguished professor of Qiushi in the medical school of Zhejiang University and executive director of the Neuroscience Center of Zhejiang University. He graduated from Peking University and the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral student in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He returned to China in 2008 and worked as a researcher in Shanghai Institute of life sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Joined Zhejiang University in 2015.

She and her team have made a series of systematic original achievements with both theoretical significance and potential application value in the frontier direction of brain science, such as the neural coding of emotion, the molecular mechanism of depression and the neural basis of social competition. This has brought good news to countless patients with depression!

In the award basis on IBRO's official website, the Award Committee described Hu Hailan's contribution in this way: this award is to commend Professor Hu Hailan's admirable achievements in the frontier field of brain science 'the basic mechanism of neurobiology of emotion and emotional behavior'. These achievements benefit from her mastery of cutting-edge technologies in System Neuroscience, and she herself is one of the pioneers of these technologies.

The news of Hu Hailan's winning the prize was quickly posted on the microblog hot search:

Netizens praise her!

Netizens also hope that the research on depression can have a greater breakthrough.

The student age is learning bully

Hu Hailan, who was born in 1973, has been a top student bully since she was a student. She is' the best girl in Mathematics in the whole grade, whispering, calm, beautiful and intelligent '.

In senior high school, he won the first prize of the National Physics Olympic competition, and the third year of senior high school was escorted to the Biology Department of Peking University in advance.

When her friend asked her what she would do after graduating from the biology department, she smiled and replied, 'either study cells for scientific research, or go to a soy sauce factory to make soy sauce.'

Until more than a decade ago, when studying for a doctorate in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, Hu Hailan's scientific research goal began to become clear - to uncover the mystery of emotion and control the 'programming' of brain neural circuits.

Master the 'programming' of brain neural circuit

Neurobiology is the science of the brain. In Hu Hailan's view, the brain is one of the most mysterious and complex structures in nature. The 21st century is not only the century of biology, but also the century of brain science. There are not only too many challenges, but also too many unknowns in this field.

Subsequently, Hu Hailan went to the University of California, Berkeley to study with Dr. Corey Goodman and received a doctorate in neurobiology in 2002.

From 2003 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2008, he conducted postdoctoral work in Dr. Julius Zhu's laboratory and Dr. Roberto Malinow's Laboratory of cold spring port Laboratory of the University of Virginia, respectively.

Do RNA extraction experiment in Woods Hole summer class in Massachusetts

In December 2008, Hu Hailan returned to China to join the Institute of neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the leader of the research group on neural circuit and behavioral plasticity and doctoral supervisor.

In 2008, it was selected into the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;

In 2012, it won the national outstanding youth grant;

In 2013, the 100 person program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was evaluated as excellent in the final stage, and won the Meiji Life Science Excellence Award;

In 2012 and 2014, he won the excellent tutor award of Chinese Academy of Sciences & hellip& hellip;

Along the way, Hu Hailan and her team have made many breakthroughs in scientific research. What must be mentioned is the feat of 'one issue and two issues' in nature in 2018.

Young team 'one issue and two issues'

On February 15, 2018, Hu Hailan led her team to publish two research articles in the famous journal Nature at the same time, which caused a sensation in the industry.

This paper reveals the action mechanism of rapid antidepressant molecules, promotes human understanding of the pathogenesis of depression, and provides several new molecular targets for the development of new antidepressant drugs, which is considered to 'solve the world problem'.

Depression is one of the most serious mental disorders. The incidence rate of the world is 11%, the sales of antidepressants are tens of billions of dollars per year, but even so, the traditional antidepressants are slow to work.

Starting with the rapid antidepressant ketamine, the team first revealed in the paper that cluster discharge, a special discharge mode of the lateral habenular nucleus, is a sufficient condition for the occurrence of depression. The reason why ketamine works is that it effectively prevents the cluster discharge in this brain region, and found that t-vscc is a new antidepressant target.

In another paper published in nature at the same time, his team revealed another rapid antidepressant molecular target - the potassium channel Kir4.1 existing in glial cells, which is very important to trigger the cluster discharge of neurons.

(original title: the first female professor in Asia! Zhejiang University won the International Brain Research Award, double explosion of strength and appearance)