"Innovation can be seen everywhere in SIP, and researchers can concentrate on their research work," Yang Yili, who worked in the USA for 20 years, commented on SIP this way. He was honored as Science and Education Leading Talent at the 7th JLDHTP meeting.

Yang went to study at Johns Hopkins University in the USA in 1989, and had been working at National Institutes of Health since graduation. For over two decades, he had devoted himself to such four sectors as the signal transduction of lymphocyte, the molecular mechanisms of apoptosis, molecule-targeted drug development and the treatment of development related tumor.

He was brought to SIP by fate in 2015 and began to work at Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine (SISM), a facility jointly founded by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Jiangsu Province, Suzhou and SIP.

At SISM, he and his colleagues make joint efforts to explore an innovative management mode, integrate the eastern and western ideas of systems biology, and carry out multi-discipline collaborative innovation in basic medicine, clinical medicine and preventive medicine.

"We are also trying to realize the rapid transformation from lab research findings to clinical application and industrialization, and achieve our objective of building an internationally influential open translational medical research institute and the incubation base for biomedicine innovation industry."

Although still a newcomer to SIP, Yang has fallen in love with the prosperous land of innovation and entrepreneurship. "The nation's best research, living and working environment and atmosphere is touchable in SIP, and I feel this is the base camp from which I can climb to new heights on the way of research, transformation and entrepreneurship."