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Original title: Chen Wei: Dancing with Drugs
After 6 months in Wuhan, Chen Wei’s hair changed from greasy, shiny black to white. She joked that she had to go to study when she had time, under what circumstances would a person’s hair suddenly turn white.
In January this year, after the outbreak of the new corona pneumonia, Chen Wei, 54, went to the front on the third day of “closing the city” in Wuhan.
Chen Wei was born in Lanxi, Zhejiang. When I was a student, I was a literary girl who liked literature and dance. She also dreamed of being a writer.
I went to high school due to the persuasion of my high school physics teacher and then I was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University. When she was a graduate student in the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University, Chen Wei used to write some short essays in the “Postgraduate Newsletter” edited by her.
Currently, she is an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Bioengineering Institute of the Academy of Military Medicine of the Academy of Military Sciences and a rank of major general. Dedicated to working with various viruses.
In the eyes of his parents and friends, Chen Wei’s job is to “dance with drugs.” As an expert in the field of “biohazard prevention and control”, she is a longtime member of the country.
Chen Wei, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Institute of Bioengineering, Academy of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences. Photo courtesy of respondents
“She is a country man”
When Chen Wei’s team arrived in Wuhan, they were faced with the challenge of insufficient local nucleic acid testing capabilities.
On January 30, Chen Wei’s team’s mobile tent-type testing laboratory went into operation. The use of self-developed detection kits and automated nucleic acid extraction technology greatly shortens nucleic acid detection time and speeds up diagnosis. In an interview with CCTV’s “News Broadcast”, Chen Wei said: “The epidemic is the military situation, and the area of the epidemic is the battlefield.”
Later, Chen Wei led scientific researchers to establish a set of “nucleic acid detection-antibody detection-multi-pathogen detection” identification chains, which was promoted and applied in 3 hospitals, including Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital, which played an important role in the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis and the cure rate. effect.
Chen Wei’s father, Chen Likun, watched the news on television and realized that his daughter had rushed back to the front line.
Every Spring Festival, as long as Chen Wei has time, he will return to his hometown in Lanxi. But he did not return this year, nor did he tell his parents about going to Wuhan.
Chen Likun recalled that the last time his daughter went home was before New Year’s Day. At that time, Chen Wei stayed in Lanxi for 2 days. Before leaving, her father asked Chen Wei, “When will I be back?” Chen Wei said it was his thirtieth year.
At first, he called his daughter Chen Wei. First, Chen Likun liked flowers and plants, and second, in his eyes, “Although the rose flower is normal, the flowering period is long and it can bloom for half a year. It is discreet and without pretenses, and can always flourish regardless of wind and rain. “
On February 3 (the 10th day of the first month), Chen Wei squeezed the time to call Lanxi’s home for the first time at the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, Chen Wei didn’t have much contact with his family, “he only sent a few messages occasionally.” He finally got a call from his daughter, Chen Wei’s mother laughed happily.
Both of Chen Wei’s parents know that “she is a member of the country.”
This is not the first time Chen Wei has been ordered into danger. In 2003, “SARS” broke out. Chen Wei led a team to launch a new pharmacological recombinant human interferon nasal spray for SARS in the shortest possible time and was approved for clinical trials; in 2014, a large-scale Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Chen Wei’s team successfully developed the first 2014 genotype Ebola vaccine and the first freeze-dried Ebola vaccine.
“Seed players” in vaccine development
In Wuhan, Chen Wei’s team is accurately assessing confirmed cases while racing against time to develop a new coronavirus vaccine.
In this fight against the new corona epidemic, the new corona vaccine development team led by Chen Wei is also considered a “seed player” in vaccine development.
On May 13, 2020, Chen Wei (right) exchanged phase II clinical trial work for the new recombinant coronavirus vaccine with researchers from the Wuhan Donghu Nursing Center. Image source /Visual china
On March 16, the human adenovirus vector vaccine developed by Chen Wei’s team became the first vaccine approved to enter clinical trials in China. This is also the world’s first new corona vaccine to enter the clinical research phase. On April 12, the second phase of the clinical trial of the vaccine was launched.
On August 11, Chen Wei’s team’s human adenovirus vector vaccine obtained a national patent, becoming the first new national corona vaccine to enter the clinic and obtain a patent. Currently, the vaccine has been approved by Russia and Pakistan for phase III clinical trials.
On September 7, Chen Wei presented that the new recombinant coronavirus vaccine developed by the team can completely cover the new mutated coronavirus. From the current point of view, the annual production goal of 300 million is achievable and they are working hard to expand the production capacity.
Chen Wei’s friend and painter from Jinhua, Chen Jun, commented that Chen Wei was “not in the lab, nor on his way to the lab.” “As long as he goes into the lab, he won’t know when he’ll be out. He’s been working as Saburo for years, and our old friends love his very much!” Chen Jun said.
Whether during the SARS period or during the Wuhan epidemic, Chen Wei’s research subjects were “very scary. They were all kinds of pathogenic microorganisms, including plague, anthrax, Ebola … every day. Full of challenges. His job is to ‘dance with drugs.’
But Chen Wei said, “In this uniform, I should do all of this.” In an interview with CCTV, Chen Wei said: “Vaccines, as special products for healthy people, are vital for the prevention and control of the epidemic. We strive to promote the new recombinant corona vaccine that we are developing in the clinic and promote it. in the shortest possible time. ” Apply to provide solid scientific and technological support to win this battle to prevent and control the epidemic. ”
“Everyone likes”
In 1984, Chen Wei was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University for undergraduate studies and has since left his hometown of Lanxi. After embarking on a scientific research position, although he has been very busy, his hometown complex is too strong and cannot be removed.
Li Yimin is the director of the Lanxi Education Bureau and was not familiar with Chen Wei before.
2016 is the 80th anniversary of Lanxi No. 1 Middle School. At that time, Li Yimin, the principal of Lanxi No. 1 High School, went to Beijing to persuade Chen Wei to give a lecture on the theme of the school celebration, but he was beating the drum: “How precious It’s her time! On the way, I was thinking about how to persuade her. I was very worried. “
Chen Wei was already a senior general that year. To Li Yimin’s surprise, Chen Wei not only enthusiastically invited Li Yimin to dinner, but also promised to return to Lanxi during his alma mater celebration. “She is extremely enthusiastic when she shows her Lanxi accent.”
Tong Zengliang is a six-year-old classmate in Chen Weilanxi No. 1 High School Junior High School. Tong Zengliang said that Chen Wei is the pride of his Lanxi people. Although they are very famous, they are modest, peaceful and simple. “When he sees us at the party, he will take the initiative to shake hands with his former colleagues and do his homework, so that everyone will like it.”
There is one more thing that makes Tong Zengliang sigh. That was 9 years ago. He led a gathering of high school classmates. Chen Wei rushed from Qingdao to attend after hearing about it. At that moment, she silently took me aside and gave me 3,000 yuan. I said, ‘Everyone has discussed the AA system, and it won’t take that long!’ As a result, she said, ‘Our classmates will always give it together. The teachers who attended the meeting bought some gifts and I thought that I could not return to the teachers during normal hours, so I should pay for the gifts. “
Two years ago, when I accidentally heard the news of the death of Master Xie, the high school teacher, Chen Wei took out the money to entrust classmates to offer condolences, and asked the students to convey their respect to Master Xie. “Later, our high school math teacher Zhang wrote her a letter asking for some photos, and Chen Wei soon sent it to teacher Zhang. In her heart, she was always grateful to the teachers!” Tong said Zengliang. .
(For information, see the Zhejiang Daily, the Xinhua News Agency, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the Jinhua Daily, etc.)
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