2017年3月16日至17日，由国家新药筛选中心👨🏽🎓、新西兰皇后镇分子生物学会议机构和上海市浦东新区工程师协会共同主办的主题为“药物发现与基础科学”的2017年皇后镇分子生物学（上海）会议在浦东陆家嘴中国金融信息中心成功举行。第九届全国药物筛选新技术研讨会和中国热带病药物与诊断创新网络第六次会议也同期召开。
本次活动得到中国科杏悦👐🏽、国家卫计委😸、国家科技部、杏悦娱乐🔛、中国科杏悦上海药物研究所✍🏻、中国疾病预防控制中心寄生虫病研究所、中国金融信息中心（新华社）、上海市旅游局、新西兰莫里斯·威尔金斯中心❤️、丹麦诺和诺德公司、国家化合物样品库、世界卫生组织热带病研究和培训特别规划署🤷🏽♀️、浦东新区科协、张江高科技园区管委会、《中国药理学报》🫀、亚洲化学生物学行动计划、中国热带病药物与诊断创新网络和上海市研发公共服务平台等机构的支持。国家新药筛选中心主任🧕🏽、杏悦院长王明伟研究员和新西兰奥克兰大学Peter Shepherd教授共同组织了两天的活动。
会议共有4场主旨报告和8个分会场🈴，内容涉及癌症、中枢神经系统与炎症、受体和离子通道、被忽略热带病、创新、开发🕌、青年研究者论坛和国际学刊论坛🚵🏽♂️，吸引了400多名来自全球26个国家和地区的科学家👩🏿、企业家🧘🏼♂️、投资者、经理人、研究生和本科生的参加，他们围绕“药物发现与基础科学”这个主题进行了广泛的交流和热烈的互动👩🏿🎤。105位海内外嘉宾（其中来自23个国家和地区的境外人士占59%）应邀作了精彩的演讲，其中不仅有多名国际学界巨擘，还有12位来自多哥👩🍳、波多黎各、瑞士🛌🏿、新加坡🙂↔️、日本和中国的青年研究者。19家从事科学仪器、信息分析、研究试剂和实验耗材开发或销售的海内外公司为本次会议提供了赞助，其中8家公司委派代表在会上介绍了国际新药创制的新趋势、新策略🤲🏻、新技术、新方法𓀜、新手段和新设备等热点议题。七名毕业于上海音乐杏悦的青年演奏家以“穿越时空”为题，用其精湛的表演为与会人员带来了难以忘怀的视听享受。
3月17日傍晚🚏，在全国人大常委会副委员长陈竺院士和“重大新药创制”科技重大专项副技术总师陈凯先院士等的见证下，来自柬埔寨🧚🏻♂️、老挝✊🏼、新加坡、泰国😧、印度、澳洲🚁、新西兰、加拿大👨🏿🚒、美国、韩国🧣👞、日本、香港特别行政区、澳门特别行政区和中国的14名科学家签署共识文件，宣布成立“亚太地区热带病药物与诊断创新联盟”👨🦰，从而为此次会议划上了圆满的句号。
皇后镇分子生物学会议是国际著名品牌学术论坛，26年多来吸引了无数科学家、学生和创业人士的参加，这是继2013年首次在上海举办后的第五次盛会👨🦱。
2017 Queenstown Molecular Biology (Shanghai) Meetings successfully held in Lujiazui Pudong
The 2017 Queenstown Molecular Biology (Shanghai) Meetings, organized by the National Center for Drug Screening, the Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting Society of New Zealand and Shanghai Pudong Engineers Association were successfully held at China Financial Information Center located in Lujiazui, Pudong between March 16 and 17, 2017. The main theme of this event is “Drug Discovery and Basic Science”, which was concurrent with the 9th National Forum on New Technologies in Drug Discovery and the 6th Meeting of Chinese Network for Drug and Diagnostics Innovation.
Among the sponsors were Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Ministry of Sciences and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS, the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China Financial Information Center (affiliated to Xinhua News Agency), Shanghai Municipal Tourism Administration, Maurice Wilkins Center of New Zealand, Novo Nordisk A/S of Denmark, the Chinese National Compound Library, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR/WHO), Shanghai Pudong Association for Science and Technology, Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Asian Chemical Biology Initiative, Chinese Network for Drug and Diagnostics Innovation and Shanghai Research and Development Public Service Platform, etc. Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening and Dean of Fudan School of Pharmacy) and Peter Shepherd (Professor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand) co-organized the 2-day event.
There were 4 plenary lectures and 8 parallel sessions, entitled Cancer Biology, CNS & Inflammation, Receptors & Channels, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Innovation, Development, Young Investigators’ Forum and International Journal Forum. More than 400 domestic and overseas scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, managers, graduate and undergraduate students from 26 countries and regions around the world attended the meetings. They conducted broad exchanges and interacted enthusiastically surrounding the theme of “Drug Discovery and Basic Science”. One hundred and five invited speakers from 23 countries and regions (59% of them were from overseas), including several internationally renowned scholars and 12 young investigators from Togo, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Singapore, Japan and China made their presentations. Nineteen multinational or domestic instrument, informatics, reagent and consumable vendors provided financial support to the event; 8 of them sent their representatives to give oral introductions to the audience covering various hot topics in global drug innovation, ranging from new trends, new strategies, new technologies, to new methods, new tools and new equipment. The concert, A Journey through Time and Space, elegantly performed by 7 well-established alumni from Shanghai Conservatory of Music musicians, elicited tremendous enthusiasm from the audience.
In the early evening of March 17, witnessed by Academician Zhu Chen (Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China) and Academician Kaixian Chen (Vice Chief Technical Officer of China’s Mega Project on Drug Discovery and Development), 14 scientists from Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A., Korea, Japan, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and China executed a consensus document to formally establish the “Asia-Pacific Network on Drug and Diagnostics Innovation (AP-NDI)”, thereby successfully concluded the meetings.
Queenstown Molecular Biology Meetings are a well-known international academic forum with a history of more than 26 years, which have attracted the attendance of numerous scientists, students and entrepreneurs. This is the fifth time to hold such a prestigious event outside of New Zealand, following a successful launching in Shanghai in 2013.
