CAS will step up foreign researchers to 3 % until 2020

Aug 25, 2014

The over 100 CAS institutes employ at present 56.000 researchers (excluding postdocs and visiting scholars) of which 1 % are foreigners. According to CAS Deputy Secretary-General TAN Tieniu, this will be stepped up to 3 % by 2020. In 2014, CAS received 1700...

China’s funding for young scientists will increase

Aug 25, 2014

In view of rising competition from SE Asia, the Chinese government plans to increase funding for scientists under age 45 through its “China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists”. A higher part of the budget will be directed directly to the young...

Hepatitis B drug „Tifentai“ enters clonical research

Aug 22, 2014

The drug, developed by Professor Guangyi LIANG of CAS Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Natural Products in Guizhou, is based on chemically synthesized key components of hepatitis B virus which are easy to produce, and has been shown in preclinical studies to be...