President Chen Yiyu Meets with Former NSF Director

NSFC President Chen Yiyu met with Dr.Arden L.Bement,former NSF Director on April 27,2011. Prof.Chen extended his welcome to Dr.Bement and expressed his appreciation to Dr Bement's positive contributions to China-US collaboration in basic research.He also introduced NSFC's recent development. During the meeting,the two sides exchanged views on such topics as climate change,water and energy challenges,and discussed the perspective of collaboration in these fields.     

Relations found between human memories and similar neural patterns

<正>In a project funded by NSFC,Professor Xue Gui of Beijing Normal University and his research team discovered that memories stick to similar neural patterns.A paper published on Science in September 2010 reported this discovery.This paper was jointly written by Xue Gui and his colleague Q.Dong in Beijing and US collaborators G.Xue,Z.Lu at University of Southern California,C.Chen at University of California, Irvine,J.A.Mumford and R.A.Poldrack at University of Texas,Austin. According to the article on Science,when someone is studying something or trying to keep it in mind, they generate various patterns of neural activity.Professor Xue Gui and his collaborators found out that     

Vice President Shen Wenqing Meets with Ecuadorian Guests

<正>On July 27,2012,National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC) Vice President,Professor Shen Wenqing met with Mr.Rene Ramirez,the National Secretary of Higher Education,Science,Technology and Innovation of Ecuador. Prof.Shen extended his welcome to Mr.Ramirez for his visit to NSFC.He said that with the increase of governmental investment in basic research,NSFC's budget had been growing steadily in recent years,a-     

The Sino-U.K. Seminar on Genome Analysis and Bio-molecular Sciences Held in Beijing

Co-sponsored by NSFC and the British Council, the Sino-UK Seminar on Genome Analysis and Bio-molecular Sciences was held in Beijing from Mar. 14 to 15. Prof. Zhu Zuoyan, Vice President of NSFC, attended the seminar and extended his warm congratulations on behalf of NSFC. In his speech, he also expressed his hope that young scientists     

Materials- the foundation for technology revolutions

It is my greatest honor to learn that Professor SHI Changxu was a recipient of the China’s National Top Award in Science and Technology in 2010 owing to his pioneer and strategic contributions to the development of materials in China and world.This award represents the strongest endorsement of not only the society to the contribution made by Professor Shi in materials,but also the materials’ community to the social progress and advances in technology.     

President Chen Yiyu Visits Greece,Spain and Germany

During his visit in Greece,Prof.Chen met with Anna Diamantopoulou,the Minister of Education in charge of science and technology affairs.Prof.Chen introduced China's science and technology structure and the important role of NSFC in the system.The Minister expressed great interest in collaboration with China in science and technology.Both sides agreed to actively promote Sino-Greece collaboration in science and technology and hope to sign the NSFC-GSRT bilateral cooperation agreement during the Minister's...     

President Chen Yiyu Met with Omi

On April 24, 2008, Prof. Chen Yiyu, NSFC President, met with the delegation headed by Mr. Kouji OMI, Member of the Japanese Lower House of Representatives at Beijing Hotel. Mr. Omi briefed the 5th Science and Technology in Society Forum to be held in Kyoto in October 2008 and formally invited Prof. Chen to attend the Forum. Prof. Chen expressed his interests to the Forum and had a discussion on the topics of the Forum.     

Short-range scattering in quantum dots

<正>In a project funded by NSFC,Professor Li Guodong and colleagues at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing made a new breakthrough in understanding the way electrons travel around quantum dots.This might lead to promising new fabrication methods of novel quantum devices,as they reported in Journal of Applied Physics,published by the American Institute of Physics in October 2010. According to their report,Professor Li and his research team carried out an experiment using self-assembled quantum dots and a two-dimensional electron gas,and then fit the data to a model to find out the     

Prof. Zhu Zuoyan Meets the President of NWO

At the invitation of NSFC, Prof. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, President of DFG, visited China from Sept. 11 to 21, 2003. During his visit, he participated in the "brain gain and brain drain forum" organized by the Sino-German Center for President Shiloder' s visit to China, and met with Prof. Chen Jia' er, President of NSFC. Prof. LiZhuqi, Vice President of NSFC, hosted a banquet for his visit on behalf of NSFC, and Prof. Chen Jia' er attended the thank-you party given by him.     

Vice President Shen Wenqing Attended the Second Meeting of ASIAHORCs

Prof. Shen Wenqing, Vice president of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, attended the second meeting of ASIAGORCs in Japan which was held from Nov. 27 to 28, 2008 and delivered his speech entitled ＂Regional scientific collaboration in the era of globalization of science and research＂.     

Important roles of brain-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase and ceramide metabolism in leptin hypothalamic control of feeding

In a recent issue of PNAS,Professor Wu Donghai of Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) and his colleagues published a paper titled "Important roles of brain-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase and ceramide metabolism in leptin hypothalamic control of feeding".Prof.Wu has received sustained support from NSFC since 2006. This article was co-authored by an international group of 9 researchers reflecting achievement of international cooperation. According to the article,brain-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1(CPT-1c) is implicated in CNS control of food intake.Prof.Wu and his group explored the role of hypothalamic CPT-lc in leptin’s an-     

Monsoon behavior balanced by glaciers

With the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Prof.An Zhisheng and his colleagues at the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology,Institute of Earth Environment in Xi’an,China have analyzed ancient sediments from a lakebed in southwestern China in order to build a 2.6 million year-long record of ISM variability.An article in August 5,2011 issue of Science reported their research findings. According to the report,the Indian Summer Monsoon,or ISM,is an annual climate cycle that influences the seasonal rainfall in South Asia and has major implications for human well-being.Though its     

Amotivation and anhedonia in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

<正>Dr.Raymond C.K.Chan(陈楚侨)and his team at the Key Laboratory of Mental Health,Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently employed a sophisticated behavioural paradigm to elucidate the nature and extent of avolition and anhedonia in schizophrenia.Their findings,which have been published in Neuropsychologyand Psychological Medicine,revealed impairments of emotion-behav-     

Cation-πinteraction playing vital roles in the regulation of integrin affinity,signaling,and biological functions

<正>In a project fundedby NSFC,Dr.Pan Youdong and his colleagues at the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology in Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,and his collaborator Timothy A.Springer of The Immune Disease Institute,Children's Hospital Boston in the US revealed their findings of important roles of Cation-πinteraction in the regulation of integrin affinity,signaling,and biological functions in a paper published on PNAS in October 2010. According to the paper,main findings of their research focus on the role of integrinα4β7.Integrinα4β7 mediates rolling and firm adhesion of leucocytes,two of the critical steps in leukocyte migration and tissue specific homing.Affinity ofα4β7 for ligand is dynamically regulated by three interlinked metal ion-     

Vice President Zhu Zuoyan Visited RFBR

From Nov.29 to Dec.4, 2004, Prof. Zhu Zuoyan visited Russia and during his stay in Moscow, he paid avisit to Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). Prof. Vladislav Yu. Khomich, President of RFBR metwith Prof. Zhu Zuoyan. The two sides exchanged ideas on further developing cooperative relations between thetwo organizations.Vice President Zhu Zuoyan Visited RFBR…     

Single-molecule magnets may find their use in microelectronics

##正##In a project funded by NSFC,Xue Haibin and his colleagues at Shanxi University have made progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet,which combines the classical macroscale properties of a magnet with the quantum properties of a nanoscale entity.Their findings were reported in the Journal of Applied Physics in October 2010 for research on the statistics of how electrons move through a single-molecule magnet to better understand the magnet's inner level structure.     

Vice President Shen Wenqing Meets with NSERC Executive Vice-President

NSFC Vice President,Prof.Shen Wenqing met with Ms.Margaret McCuaig-Johnston,Executive Vice-President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC) on August 9,2012. Prof.Shen extended his welcome to Ms.Margaret McCuaig-Johnston for her visit to NSFC and then gave a brief introduction on NSFC.Speaking of the tie between NSFC and NSERC,Prof.Shen said that the MoU between the two organizations was signed in as early as 1987,with intention to promote exchange     

Zhu Zuoyan Met with Rockefeller University Life Professor Cai Nanhai

On Feb.1,2007,Prof.Zhu Zuoyan met with Prof. Cai Nanhai, life professor of Rockefeller University and Foreign Member of CAS. Prof.Cai,as a life professor at Rockefeller University,is renowned in the field of plant molecular biology and has published a series of papers in world top scientific journals.Over the years,he has been keeping close at- tention to the development of China's basic research.Many Chinese biologists have visited and worked in his laboratory.     

Role of Lymphatic Trafficking and Biodistribution

Funded by NSFC,Dr.Ma Yifan and his team of Center of Bio-sensing of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of CAS,made new progress in nano-vector vaccine and adjuvants system research. This achievement is to be published in SCI Journal Vaccine. Lymph nodes(LNs) are peripheral lymphoid organs essential for vaccine-induced immune responses. Although cationic liposomes have been documented as a novel adjuvant and vaccine delivery system,     

Prof. Chen Yiyu Visited France and Germany

Prof. Chen Yiyu, President of NSFC, paid a successful visit to France and Germany from July 12 to 23,2004.During his visit in France, Prof. Chen visited the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), the Institut Pasteur and the High Normal School (ENS). Both sides have presented the latest de