Pengpai News has learned from the China Association for Science and Technology that on October 19, the 2024 World Life Sciences Conference, co-hosted by Hainan University and the Life Sciences Society of the China Association for Science and Technology, officially opened at the Boao International Conference Center in Hainan.
This conference, themed "One World, Shared Health," will explore how to leverage life science research and technological innovation to address global challenges such as major diseases and population aging. Positioned at the forefront of new productive forces, China is driving deeper global cooperation with life sciences as its core focus.
Over 60 distinguished academicians, including Chinese Academy of Sciences members Wu Weihua, Yang Weicai, Gao Fu, Kang Le, Meng Anming, and Wei Fuwen, as well as Nobel laureates Randy Schekman, Barry J. Marshall, Erwin Neher, George Fitzgerald Smoot III, and Lasker Award winner Chen Zhijian, are attending the conference to present their findings.
During the opening ceremony, Wu Weihua, the conference's Chinese co-chair and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, stated in his address that life sciences have developed into one of the most dynamic frontier disciplines in natural sciences. This conference provides an academic platform for scientists from around the world to showcase cutting-edge achievements in life sciences and explore the field of health.
Randy Schekman, the foreign co-chair and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, emphasized in his speech that the theme of the conference, “One World, Shared Health,” not only highlights a commitment to life science research but also underscores the urgency of addressing global health challenges.
Hainan University's President and Chinese Academy of Sciences member Luo Qingming noted in his remarks that currently, the university has nine colleges related to life sciences, including the newly established College of Life and Health Sciences, College of Biomedical Engineering, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Pharmacy, and the College of South Breeding in the past five years.
This year's conference has introduced a new "World Life Sciences Conference Online Meeting Center," creating a perpetual platform for the World Life Sciences Conference by combining online and offline sessions. Attendees can access relevant conference information and participate in online exhibitions via the Suishi meeting app. Among them, the Frontier Achievements Exhibition on Anti-Aging—focusing on scientific applications—will be held as an online closed-door meeting. Notable participants will include Nobel laureate Fitzgerald Smoot, Professor Fang Xiaodong from BGI, Professor Liu Zhi from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Academician Wang Songling from the Anti-aging Promotion Association, who will cover topics such as "The Future of the Anti-Aging Industry," "Applications of Multi-Omics Technologies in Aging and Health," "Gut Microbiota and Aging," and "Novel Drug Development and Clinical Applications of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells."