On the afternoon of June 19, Yan Li, Secretary of Changzhou Municipal Committee of CPC, met with the delegation headed by Michael Levitt, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers. In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes. Besides, the work of Karplus, Levitt and Warshel is ground-breaking in that they managed to make Newton’s classical physics work side-by-side with the fundamentally different quantum physics.

Leavitt's visit this time is to establish a studio at Changzhou Industrial Technology Research Institute of Zhejiang University, where he will also serve as the chief scientist of the Nanomedicine Research Center. The center focuses on the applications of graphene and its derivatives in biological nanotechnology.

Yan said that Changzhou has been practicing the strategy of development through science and education for a long term, during which the city has carried out extensive UNISPAR cooperation with a large number of universities and institutes at home and abroad. Among them, Changzhou National High-tech District (CND) and Zhejiang University co-founded Changzhou Industrial Technology Research Institute of Zhejiang University. He hoped that Levitt will bring into Changzhou the latest theory and technology of biology, and realize technology transfer as soon as possible based on the advantages of Zhejiang University, so as to promote better and sounder development of Changzhou’s new materials and bio-pharmaceutical industries.

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