Surgery Godfather

Chapter 2221: Chapter 1450: Six Particulars

Yang Ping discussed some experimental details with Manstein and then left the cell laboratory to go to Weber.

Weber’s office door was open, but he was not there. Yang Ping asked a student nearby, who said Weber had gone to the animal room to administer treatments to the experimental animals.

Yang Ping then went to the animal room.

The animal room was not in the institute but housed in a temporary steel structure, a strictly controlled environment requiring protective gear, masks, and gloves to enter. Yang Ping changed in the changing room, equipped himself, and entered with an access card.

The animal room was very quiet, except for occasional animal sounds. Weber stood at a workstation holding a syringe, preparing to perform a tail vein injection on a rat.

Yang Ping did not disturb him and stood quietly watching from the side.

Weber’s movements were very steady. His left hand fixed the rat, while his right hand held the syringe, and the needle accurately pierced the tail vein, drew back blood, pushed the drug, and withdrew the needle. The entire process took no more than ten seconds, clean and efficient.

"Good technique," Yang Ping said after he finished.

Weber turned his head, saw it was Yang Ping, and smiled, "Professor Yang, what brings you here?"

"Came to check on your experimental progress," Yang Ping walked over, "Yesterday, you mentioned the experiment on original cells promoting stem cell neural differentiation. Is it completed?"

"It’s done." Weber tore a page from the notebook beside the workstation and handed it to Yang Ping, "These are the preliminary results; take a look."

Yang Ping looked at it; it was a bar chart with the vertical axis representing the proportion of neurons and the horizontal axis representing different treatment groups. Control group, stem cells alone treatment group, original cells alone treatment group, stem cells combined with original cells treatment group, the data for all four groups were clear at a glance.

The results showed the stem cells combined with original cells treatment group had the highest proportion of neurons, significantly higher than the other three groups, with statistically significant differences.

"These results are impressive," Yang Ping said, "Have you done the dosage gradient experiments? The impact of different concentrations of original cells on stem cell differentiation might vary."

"Not yet," Weber said, "That’s the next step in the plan."

"Then proceed as soon as possible," Yang Ping said, "If you can find the optimal dosage, the value of this paper will double."

"Okay, I’ll get on it right away," Weber said.

Yang Ping stayed in the animal room for more than half an hour, observing several experiments conducted by Weber, and then left.

Upon returning to the office, it was almost noon.

Yang Ping sat in his chair, looked at the achievements of the morning, finished reading Manstein’s paper draft, discussed Weber’s experimental results, handled Director He and Xia Shu’s cases, and chatted with Lu Xiaolu about the deputy director’s position.

The efficiency was quite decent.

The afternoon schedule was also packed, at two o’clock, Tang Shun organized new doctoral candidate interviews. He had three candidates to interview; at three thirty, the institute’s weekly meeting, each project group reported their progress this week and their plans for next week; at five o’clock, a call with Dean Xia to confirm the revised plan for the new institute.

He had lunch at the institute’s cafeteria at noon, and the afternoon interviews went smoothly.

Among the three candidates, two were from top domestic universities, and one was a postdoc returning from studying abroad. Each had their strengths, and Yang Ping along with Tang Shun and Lu Xiaolu interviewed each of them, asking many professional questions, as well as some about research philosophy and career planning.

After the interviews, the three of them closed the door to discuss.

"I think that overseas-returned postdoc is pretty good," Lu Xiaolu spoke first, "He worked with a top researcher abroad and published several high-impact papers. His experimental skills are also comprehensive."

Tang Shun shook his head, "I’m not too optimistic about him. Although his papers are high-scored, they were all co-authored with others, not one as the first author. This might indicate his independent research ability could be lacking."

"What about the two domestic ones?" Yang Ping asked.

"The first doctoral candidate has a solid foundation, but their thinking is somewhat rigid, lacking flexibility," Tang Shun said, "The second candidate is active in thinking but has an unsolid foundation and is not very skilled in experimental operations."

"So each has its strengths and weaknesses," Yang Ping summed up, "The overseas postdoc’s independence is questionable, the first doctoral candidate is rigid in thinking, and the second candidate has an unsolid foundation. Which flaw do you think is the hardest to accept?"

The three fell silent for a moment.

"I think not having a solid foundation is the hardest to accept," Lu Xiaolu said, "Active thinking can be cultivated, but an unsolid foundation is hard to compensate for. In research, without a solid foundation, you can’t go far."

"I agree," Tang Shun said, "Rigid thinking is also hard to change, but compared to an unsolid foundation, at least rigid thinking won’t make basic mistakes. With someone with an unsolid foundation, you never know what mistakes might happen during experiments."

Yang Ping thought for a moment and said, "My view is precisely the opposite of yours. Active thinking is the hardest to come by, while the others can be made up for with effort, except for active thinking. We need talents with a questioning spirit and innovative thinking, and deficiencies like an unsolid foundation can be compensated through continuous learning on the job."

Tang Shun and Lu Xiaolu were briefly stunned and carefully pondered the professor’s words, realizing they did make sense.

"Then should we keep them all? Let them complement each other; we need both the innovative and those who do their work diligently," Tang Shun suggested.

Yang Ping nodded, "That’s what I mean, as long as they have specialties and characteristics, we should keep them to complement each other."

"Great!" Both Tang Shun and Lu Xiaolu agreed.

After the interview, Yang Ping returned to the office to prepare for the weekly meeting.

The weekly meeting is an institute tradition, held once a week, where each project group reports their progress for the week and plans for the following week. Yang Ping attaches great importance to this meeting because it allows him to understand the dynamics of each project group and promptly identify and solve issues.

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