International Masters Frontier Forum at SYSU Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, the “Father of Cloning”, gives the speech of From Dolly to Personalised Medicine

The International Masters Frontier Forum was held by Office of International Cooperation & Exchange of SYSU, Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen), and the Seventh Affiliated Hospital, at Swasey Hall, Guangzhou South Campus, SYSU, on September 20, 2018. Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, the “Father of Cloning”, was invited to give a lecture entitled “From Dolly to Personalised Medicine”. The lecture was hosted by Prof. Wenbin Deng,  dean and professor of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen) of Sun Yat-sen University. About 300 faculties and students from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen), the Seventh Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, and School of Life Sciences attended the lecture.

Prof. Wenbin Deng hosted lecture

Welcoming speech by SYSU VP Dr. Haipeng XIAO

Prof. Xiao Haipeng, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen University, delivered a welcome speech and hoped that Professor Sir lan Wilmut would join in Shenzhen campus of SYSU, to build the transformation platform of stem cell and support the "Double First Class" construction of SYSU.

During the lecture, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut told the teachers and students the story of creating Dolly. Stem cell technology has developed over the past decade, that will promote the new era of medicine to rebuild, regenerate, "manufacture" and replace tissues and organs, and bring new hopes to most medical problems faced by human beings, such as cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, treatment of diseases such as diabetes, malignant tumors, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, congenital genetic defects, and various tissue and organ damage. In the Q&A session, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut won a burst of applause by answering students' and teachers' questions with patience and care.

Professor Sir lan Wilmut gived the speech of From Dolly to Personalised Medicine

Sir Ian Wilmut, a British, is the inventor of cloning and has been praised as the “Father of Cloning”. He got the doctor’s degree from Cambridge University. Now he is a professor of Emeritus of MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. He received many honors, such as OBE, Queen's Birthday Honours in 1999, Knighthood New Year Honours in 2008, Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000, Foreign Associate of the National Academies of Science USA in 2004, and Shaw Prize in 2008.