2 ZJU Professors Win National Award for Youth in Science and Technology

The 14th National Award for Youth in Science and Technology was jointly presented by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, the Chinese Ministry of Personnel and the China Association for Science and Technology recently. 2 Zhejiang University professors, Tian Mei and Hu Hailan, won the Award.

Tian Mei is a professor of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, a Cheung Kong scholar, the director of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and vice president of Binjiang Hospital of Zhejiang University. Her primary research interests include clinical and translational studies on positron emission tomography (PET), or PET-CT and in combination with MRI, clinical and translational studies on neuroimaging, general nuclear medicine diagnosis and treatment, in vivo stem cell or T cell trafficking using multimodality imaging (PET/CT/MRI/optical imaging). Her research provides generous support for the prevention, diagnosis and assessment of major diseases. 

Hu Hailan, a professor of both the Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies and the School of Medicine, the executive director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology and a Cheung Kong scholar. She has made outstanding achievements in cutting-edge studies into how emotional and social behaviors are encoded in the brain. Her research team has published two papers in Science, with a principal focus on the neural circuitry underlying depression and dominance hierarchy. In 2014, her team published a paper entitled “Visualizing an emotional valence map in the limbic forebrain by TAI-FISH” in Nature Neuroscience. In 2014, she published an invited review in Trends in Neuroscience.