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‘10,000-tonne level talent’ biologist Zhao Yingming leaves Chicago for Hangzhou

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · East Asia

In early November, a low-resolution photo of an internal meeting circulated on China’s social networks, accompanied by a caption with only one sentence: “It is said that he is a top-tier introduced talent at the 10,000-tonne level.” The main person in the photo is leading biologist Zhao Yingming, who was the Louis Block Professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago. He has just joined Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, according to sources. Zhejiang...

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