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Deng Hongkui wins the 2024 Future Science Prize in Life Sciences

2024-08-16

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August 16 news, the 2024 Future Science Prize was announced today, Peking University Changping LaboratoryDeng HongkuiProfessor Gained LifeScience Award

National Academy of SciencesacademicianWang Xiaodong, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that this is to commend Professor Deng Hongkui for his outstanding work in using chemical methods to reprogram cells into pluripotent stem cells and change cell fate and state.


Wang Xiaodong said that before Professor Deng Hongkui, there were two reprogramming methods that could produce pluripotent stem cells; and Professor Deng used chemical methods to reverse the state of cells. Wang Xiaodong gave an example, taking type 1 diabetes as an example, mature cells in the body can be used to make stem cells to repair the body's pancreatic system and reduce the patient's need for insulin.