Chapter 607: Level 6 Skill Is Awesome!~

Lan Tianluo seemed slightly nervous on stage, but once he formally began speaking, his mature and steady demeanor made him seem like a different person.

The content Lan Tianluo shared overlapped with what Fang Ziye and the others reported yesterday, but Lan Tianluo had organized it, presenting it in a data-driven form that was more thorough and impressive.

It was like this: when not formally writing papers, Fang Ziye and the others had not disturbed Lan Tianluo, nor had they asked him to make extra tables.

Or to create data-driven images and table-style presentations.

Lan Tianluo was also very busy.

Steel should be used on the blade's edge; Lan Tianluo was already exhausted just doing data analysis for the paper.

Anyone who has experienced the pain point of data analysis knows its bittersweet agony.

Therefore, during the academic report, having Lan Tianluo painstakingly visualize simple data would undoubtedly waste a lot of time and count as ineffective effort.

Data visualization is the best form for popularizing science to laypeople.

In Lan Tianluo's PPT, most were images, with few textual descriptions, mostly just outlines.

Today's hearing report was not an academic report, so no one interrupted, and the proceedings went very smoothly; Fang Ziye, the order-keeper brought in to hold the fort, had nothing to do...

However, after Lan Tianluo finished his report, although there was some applause, everyone's enthusiasm was not particularly high.

Even members of the National Natural Science Foundation review committee did not have many orthopedic colleagues, so they might not understand the 'actual' significance of this project deeply enough.

During the intermission right after Lan Tianluo finished his report, Vice President Yuan Yufeng immediately found Fang Ziye: "Ziye, your team lacks this kind of reporting experience, so the content of your report is actually not what everyone is interested in."

"Here's what we'll do: later, you'll shorten the speaking time for the last two members, and I'll give you a summary later."

Hearing this, Fang Ziye was stunned for about a second, then immediately nodded: "Thank you, Teacher Yuan."

"Do you need us to provide the PPT?" Fang Ziye asked.

Although Yuan Yufeng was over fifty, he still looked handsome and graceful; he shook his head: "No need, I have notes."

Fang Ziye immediately went to tell Jie Han and Luo Tingzhu about this.

Jie Han immediately agreed: "Professor Yuan Yufeng is the Vice President and has been exposed to more occasions; perhaps our reporting format is more suitable for professional academic reports."

"In other aspects, we absolutely cannot compare to Teacher Yuan's experience."

Fang Ziye said: "Then we must learn well."

"In the future, the audience our team faces might also be non-professionals; we need to understand what content interests them. Only then can we successfully deliver a good report."

Academic exchange with professionals and reporting to non-professionals are similar in form, but the specific content must be corrected.

This basic principle applies worldwide.

Jie Han and Luo Tingzhu quickly sped up their reporting pace, concisely finishing the content originally scheduled for one and a half hours in forty-five minutes.

By this time, it was exactly the lunch break.

During this period, Yuan Yufeng had also already discussed similar matters with Deng Yong, Dean Wang Xinghuan, and others.

It was exactly 12:15 PM; Yuan Yufeng smiled and said: "Distinguished leaders, distinguished professors, distinguished experts, Professor Fang's team has finished sharing about professional content and the basic theories of research."

"However, just now, Professor Fang specifically asked me to give a summary of their project."

"To avoid disturbing the time of the distinguished experts and leaders, we therefore shortened the reporting time of the second and third speakers."

"It is now noon mealtime; please, distinguished leaders and distinguished experts, dine in order. We will resume precisely at 2:00 PM this afternoon. Thank you for your hard work." Yuan Yufeng held the microphone while orderly arranging everyone to leave front and back.

Fang Ziye was arranged to meet Old Professor Qiu Zhenghua and Old Professor Gu Yuandong, with Professor Du Xinzhan and Teacher Deng Yong responsible for accompanying and receiving them.

In the cafeteria, Old Professor Gu Yuandong spoke first: "Ziye, did your team not specially arrange a summary-style description before?"

Fang Ziye nodded frankly: "Teacher Gu, your letter came too urgently; we didn't have time to prepare for this aspect."

"When we invite other teachers to give academic reports, we only thought Teacher Gu and the others would come; we didn't expect the leaders would also come."

The Health Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, and other units were all superior leadership-level units of Zhongnan Hospital; Fang Ziye didn't know how to address them, so he simply used "leaders" instead.

"Actually, it's fine, more or less the same." After Old Professors Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua looked at each other, they themselves became embarrassed first.

The platform of Zhongnan Hospital was still too small, and its vision too narrow; its experience and expertise were not sufficiently abundant.

This was an objective fact that must be respected.

However, during the afternoon session, after Vice President Yuan Yufeng went on stage, the atmosphere in the entire lecture hall changed directly.

Yuan Yufeng wore formal attire, his figure as standard as a model; holding the microphone, he came to the center position and bowed to everyone.

"Thank you, distinguished leaders, for gracing Enshi with your presence to attend the hearing of Professor Fang's animal trial-clinical project at our Zhongnan Hospital Orthopedics Department."

"First, I would like to specially introduce our Professor Fang to all distinguished leaders and experts."

"If distinguished experts have understood our medical industry, they will surely discover that nowadays, in all emergency departments, emergency resuscitation rooms, ICUs, and 120 transfer vehicles across the nation, a new instrument called the Microcirculation Instrument is equipped."

"As everyone knows, with the development of technology, traffic accidents and other violent traumas occur frequently, and the incidence of limb amputation remains high! ~"

"Orthopedic limb replantation surgery is one of the limb-preserving surgical techniques first developed by our Eastern Han, pioneered by the late Academician Chen Zhongwei, and has a history of sixty years to this day."

"During this period, it saved countless amputee patients from the suffering of disability. Academician Chen's contributions and achievements must be great."

"However, due to some objective reasons and historical factors, the limb replantation surgery of hand surgery has relatively large limitations."

Yuan Yufeng immediately opened the title page of the temporarily made PPT.

"Surgical indication: surgical indication must be replantation within six hours of limb amputation; if this time is exceeded, the survival rate of limb replantation surgery will drop exponentially!"

"The earlier, the better."

"This objective constraint has persisted in the medical circle for nearly sixty years."

"However, starting from last October, this original constraint was broken; after Professor Fang's team successfully developed and applied the Microcirculation Instrument to clinical use."

"This six-hour time window has been extended to 200 hours, or even longer."

"This also makes it so that, from last year to this year, the disability incidence rate caused by limb amputation has directly dropped from the original forty percent to five per thousand, or even lower."

"It varies depending on the medical level of each hospital!"

"This data is very gratifying; the social contribution of the Microcirculation Instrument and its help to amputee patients are enormous! ~"

Speaking up to this point, Yuan Yufeng turned to the second page and continued: "One very obvious thing is that Professor Fang's team has the most profound understanding of the microcirculation instrument."

"Therefore, in terms of the use of this instrument, Professor Fang's team is the most professional and also the most official."

"At the same time, we must understand another technique..."

Yuan Yufeng quickly finished laying out the background, then said: "The peak age for bone tumors is adolescence, which is related to the human rapid growth period; this cannot be changed."

"Every year in our country, a large number of adolescents with tumors lose their lives because of this. Among them are no small number of especially outstanding children."

"Since the late 1980s, the treatment of bone tumors has fallen into a plateau period..."

"Even after undergoing systemic treatment, the prognosis discussed is mostly five-year survival rates and ten-year survival rates."

"This actually proves that the corresponding treatment methods are still not perfect enough; our medical circle defines it as: the imperfection of chemotherapy regimens!"

"So they must be improved! ~"

"There are multiple directions for improving chemotherapy. The first is developing new chemotherapy drugs, giving them fewer side effects, stronger chemotherapy effects, achieving all-round, no-dead-angle 'functional extinction' of tumor cells!"

"Extinction is not killing, but starving this current generation of cells to death!"

"This is a relatively traditional concept!!!"

"Please note, this is the traditional concept!"

"I'll emphasize it once more." Yuan Yufeng's professional content wasn't extensive, but what he said, everyone could understand.

"Traditional things have both merits and limitations."

"Chemotherapy treating tumors is proven, useful, and one of the effective treatment methods."

"However, chemotherapy has its limitations: its impact on human bodily functions is too great and too broad, making patients unable to accept 'in principle' thorough, complete chemotherapy."

"More colloquially put, the essence of chemotherapy treatment is injuring the enemy eight hundred, self-damaging two thousand!!!"

"This isn't a joke; this is the medical circle's consensus."

"We've all seen bone tumor patients after chemotherapy — emaciated, bald, pale."

"The principle is that while chemotherapy drugs act on tumor cells, they also produce large-scale killing effects on our human bodies."

"The so-called three thousand great Daos, different paths same destination, the great Dao is utmost simplicity."

"Professor Fang's extremely genius thinking mode was born in the subtle interstices."

"He might raise a question: if chemotherapy drugs don't pass through the whole body but only through the local area, wouldn't that avoid the drugs' wide-range killing of the human body?"

"The answer is affirmative! ~"

"Between two points, the straight line is shortest! ~"

"Precision strike — if precise enough, its efficiency far exceeds carpet bombing."

"Therefore, if analogized to marching and warfare, Professor Fang's current research project is a precise and effective strike."

"Strike only the bad, not the good. Encircle and bind the battlefield! ~"

"This is not only a revolutionary breakthrough for bone tumor treatment, but also provides a leading role for the treatment and chemotherapy regimens of all other tumors."

"The combined use of the microcirculation instrument and chemotherapy will be unique, pioneering, a project that will rewrite medical history!"

"It is also one of the projects for our Eastern Han medical field to occupy the world medical summit."

"If it succeeds once, it will not only produce huge sociological benefits for the prognosis and treatment of domestic bone tumor patients, but also generate huge economic benefits in export, foreign trade, and other fields."

"The most, most, most important thing is that it is simple and convenient to use; basically any team with certain basic skills can collaborate to carry it out! ~"

"Good effects, easy to use, great significance..." Yuan Yufeng spoke eloquently and at length.

Fang Ziye watched somewhat dazedly, then he discovered that some of the other leaders listening to these words were instead spirited and energized.

So, actually, these leaders weren't here to hear what principles their own teams developed; what they wanted to hear was actually practical significance, grand talk.

Don't focus on key points; the key points are money, sociological benefits.

Because the tumors they've experienced aren't only bone tumors, but also gynecological tumors, liver tumors.

They focus on benefits, efficiency, how to use it; besides treatment, there's no other aspect of value.

Research is relatively limited; you can't cast a wide net and invest in every project — that kind of investment would be too large.

Yuan Yufeng really could talk; without much professional content, he relied on his few notebooks and spoke for a full one and a half hours before gradually wrapping up.

"One very obvious thing is that, based on this, our Han City University, our Zhongnan Hospital, will not only establish benchmark guidelines for bone tumor treatment in orthopedics."

"We can also, relying on this, establish a large-scale bone tumor treatment center, bone tumor teaching tumor, tumor treatment research center, and tumor research extraction R&D center in the Central China region."

"We already have such preliminary preparations; our Han City University, our Zhongnan Hospital, including our Hubei Provincial Health Commission, will all provide support."

"However, additional policy support and funding support still require help from all you leaders and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Committee."

"Let the project be catalyzed one step faster, let tumor patients enjoy the direct benefits of this project earlier."

"Let our research team, with even more single-minded focus, launch a general offensive against the high mountains of the three major medical difficulties of the twenty-first century officially named."

"I have finished my presentation; thank you all leaders for listening."

Yuan Yufeng finished and prepared to step down, but after putting down the microphone, he picked it up again: "I'll still show all you leaders one more cluster photo of bone tumor patients..."

Yuan Yufeng opened another document on his computer.

At some unknown time, a string of images was sent on Yuan Weihong's WeChat.

Another cute little girl, only four or five years old, from lively and innocent to pale and powerless, eyes vacant, finally lying flat, covered with a white cloth.

There were ignorant infants crying loudly, unable to cry out, unable to open their eyes, chubby babies turning into skinny babies...

There were adolescents in their prime, holding basketballs, wearing jerseys, then holding basketball models, wearing patient gowns, gradually wasting away, like old men.

There were patients' parents, elderly, crying heart-rendingly, eyes swollen red, accompanying loudly crying children crying continuously, who knows how many pairs of eyes shedding tears...

There were young adults, middle-aged...

There were amputees, who died after amputation.

Yuan Yufeng said: "This is a set of images shared with me by our bone tumor specialty's Professor Du Yingshan."

"Location of occurrence: Hubei Province, Han City, Zhongnan Hospital, Bone Tumor Specialty."

"Its other location of occurrence: Eastern Han, Hospital, Bone Tumor Department."

"Thank you everyone! ~" Yuan Yufeng walked toward the audience area.

Applause thundered instantly!

The applause lasted roughly half a minute before a person Fang Ziye did not recognize, but whose nameplate read Xiang Chao, picked up the microphone and asked: "Professor Fang, I just listened to your team's report, and also listened to your hospital Dean Yuan's summary."

"But I myself am not a professional; listening to it, I feel the application scope of this microcirculation instrument is relatively narrow, currently only usable for orthopedic tumors, right?"

"Professor Fang, you yourself are a professional; have you considered whether this kind of microcirculation instrument and the concept of microcirculation could also be used for other tumors?"

Fang Ziye could determine with certainty that the other party was a fairly standard layman leader.

However, greed is human instinct; Fang Ziye also did not feel his suggestion was excessive.

Fang Ziye shook his head: "This requires experts from other fields to conduct further research."

"Our hands and feet, in the essence of medicine, are organ attributes; the definition and nature of internal organs and limb organs are completely different!"

"In principle, if an improved microcirculation instrument suitable for internal organs could be made, with self-circulation, it is also not impossible."

"It's just that the other aspects involved would be more numerous; for instance, with the thyroid, if thyroxine cannot be secreted into the human body, would it cause harm to the human body, and so on..."

"Here, I am not a professional person."

"Not much involvement." Fang Ziye did not make sweeping claims.

Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing.

Being brave enough to admit one's own insufficiencies and flaws is one of the signs of maturity.

"That is to say, it can be refined in this direction." Xiang Chao nodded, then asked again:

"Professor Fang, has your team made any estimate on the time your research project can be successfully applied clinically? In your report, I did not find a concrete time reflected."

Fang Ziye shook his head again: "This leader!"

Fang Ziye did not know Xiang Chao's position; afraid of calling it wrong and offending him: "We can only constrain the time within one year; this mainly still depends on the specific data expression in the animal experimental models."

"Only then can we cautiously proceed to the next process."

"According to our country's Life Sciences Department's relevant regulations on clinical trials, it is clearly stipulated that at least three phases of animal trials and three phases of clinical trials must be conducted; only after the data results are outstanding and have passed acceptance can it be directly applied clinically."

"So, this time node, our research group cannot control well! ~"

Upon hearing this, Xiang Chao put down the microphone.

However, immediately a person from the Ministry of Science and Technology spoke up: "Professor Fang, according to my understanding of your report, your clinical project this time does not involve new drugs, right?"

"It's only the improvement of auxiliary instruments, so the drugs used are all ones that have already passed clinical testing!"

"There will only be an increase in dosage; this procedure is relatively easier to go through."

"I just consulted with some experts from the Health Commission; deputy chief physicians and above in the medical field have a certain degree of autonomous quantification authority based on clinical experience."

"The project's estimated results are very good; on the procedural aspect, we will follow regulations and will not create bottlenecks."

"Of course, the premise is that the data cannot have problems, and absolutely cannot be falsified."

"In this aspect, history has suffered losses before." This person did not say it clearly, but from the information he grasped, he knew that a large amount of 'live experiments' existed in the past!

Eastern Han was also one of the victims; that was a humiliating history.

Drugs cannot be casually applied directly to living bodies! This is world common knowledge!

"Yes, leader, precisely because data cannot be falsified, especially involving the quantification of drugs applied inside the body, maybe 1.5 times or 2 times the drug amount, the drug's effect would become completely different! ~"

"So, when our team conducts quantitative analysis, we will also be extremely cautious; therefore we even more cannot have an accurate time estimate."

"But based on our preliminary research results, as well as some already mature tumor chemotherapy treatment cases, it should be within one year that we can push this project to clinical phase two research."

"Regarding procedural filing, ethics committee approval, etc., we have already submitted to our hospital's Ethics Committee, as well as relevant departments of the Military Hospital; they are already reviewing the specific processes." Fang Ziye reported.

Speaking to this point, another person from the National Health Commission team then looked toward Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua, and consulted: "Academician Gu, Academician Qiu, you two are the most authoritative experts in orthopedics; how do you view Professor Fang's project?"

A Bone Tumor Department doctor immediately handed over the microphone.

Actually, if following conventional meeting preparation, everyone should have a microphone; however, this is a temporary emergency meeting, preparation could not be this thorough.

After all, at the beginning, Han City University and Zhongnan Hospital did not attach particularly high importance to this project; it was only after it fermented internally within the Bone Tumor Specialty that the two academicians nominated the hearing.

Gu Yuandong took the microphone, patted it: "Actually, as orthopedic specialty personnel, it is not good for us to express biased opinions."

"But according to my personal understanding, this new use of the microcirculation instrument belongs to the combined use of mature instruments and mature drugs."

"Its project progress speed will be very fast, and relatively safe."

"After all, limb high-level amputation surgery has already been maturely applied clinically, representing that the functional reserve our human body itself possesses is enormous."

"Here, I want to specially emphasize one point."

"I work at Huashan Hospital; I am a Hand Surgery doctor; I previously only came to Han City University for exchange; Han City University, Zhongnan Hospital are not my alma mater, so there is no conflict of interest." Gu Yuandong stated his position very cautiously.

This is not me promoting my cronies!

"Thank you, Academician Gu." Seeing Gu Yuandong put down the microphone, the Health Commission person nodded in thanks.

Qiu Zhenghua then said: "I personally have some contact with bone tumor research and treatment, including my current research projects, all are bone tumor related."

"However, my research direction differs from Professor Fang's research direction; we are activating potential targets for developing new bone tumor chemotherapy drugs, aiming to discover new targeted therapy drugs."

"However, the Great Dao has three thousand paths; different paths lead to the same destination!"

"The concept Professor Fang proposed, I feel is truly unexpected, yet reasonable."

"It almost perfectly avoids the relevant drawbacks of chemotherapy, bringing this already mature treatment plan to its extreme! ~"

"Perhaps, this is the most perfect embodiment of adapting measures to local conditions and to the disease."

"I personally feel that Professor Fang's project, once it breaks through and faces the world, will be a blessing for our orthopedics, a blessing for orthopedic tumor patients, a blessing for our Eastern Han! ~"

"Absolutely, and foreseeable! ~"

"Because Professor Fang has already brought us a miracle before, that is Limb Replantation Surgery, breaking through the original time restriction."

"Analogous to firefighting and emergency rescue; if there is a thing that can completely localize the fire, can give two hundred hours of time for professional firefighters to rush to the fire location, how great is this significance, presumably each leader may understand even more clearly than I."

"Similarly, the application of the concept of breaking down the whole into parts in this project is to separate orthopedic tumors from the human body based on the particularity of their anatomical characteristics."

"After treatment is completed, the parts are then reassembled into a whole."

"I was originally abroad, but after I heard our team members report on this project, I flew back at the first possible moment."

"I didn't even rest in between."

"Because I know the significance of this matter is extremely great, I had to come; regardless of whether I needed to avoid suspicion, I still had to come."

"Moreover, the term 'avoid suspicion' doesn't even exist here."

"This is my view on this project; it will change the overall landscape of orthopedic tumor treatment, and even change the approach to all tumor treatment."

"Therefore, I proposed together with Professor Gu that the state and relevant departments must attach great importance to this matter."

"To a certain extent, funding, talent, and policy support should be given accordingly, so the project can be perfected earlier and exert its due benefits."

Qiu Zhenghua came from Jingdu, and seemed even more capable of "formal" small talk than Gu Yuandong, so the content he expressed was somewhat more comprehensive than Gu Yuandong's.

Speaking up to here, Yuan Yufeng also chimed in: "Various leaders, various experts, before I came I received the entrustment of our school's president; this project will be one of Han City University's key projects for the next several years, and will have special fund support."

"We will also report to the Ministry of Education as appropriate, and request that Professor Fang be appropriately equipped with relatively complete research assistants, research-related personnel, allocated sufficient Master's Student and Doctor quotas, and equipped with corresponding laboratories."

After Yuan Yufeng finished speaking, he asked: "Dean Wang? Professor Fang is our Zhongnan Hospital's professor; this support should have no difficulty, right?"

Wang Xinghuan immediately nodded: "Professor Yuan, our hospital's Orthopedics Department is originally a National Key Specialty, and also has a Key Laboratory, it's just that the laboratory's level is not high enough."

"Our Zhongnan Hospital has always attached great importance to scientific research, and is already building a new Experimental Building; according to last year's plan, Orthopedics already has an independent experimental floor."

"However, some other assistance is still needed……"

Fang Ziye directly discovered he had no way to get a word in edgewise.

Han City University was professional to the top level in the aspect of asking for money and asking for policy; basically in one round after another, they listed out all the details of the platform Fang Ziye's team needed to build in the hospital.

Summarized as follows.

First, funding.

Second, platform.

Third, laboratory expansion and renovation.

Fourth, team manpower; they want to ask the Ministry of Education for more Master's and Doctor quotas, allocated to Orthopedics.

Fifth, the National Key Laboratory assessment, should that also be put on the agenda?

Sixth, if the opportunity is suitable, can our Zhongnan Hospital's Orthopedics be evaluated as a National Key Discipline?

This is Han City University.

From top-secret matters down to the discipline's small steps, they know every step clearly — which step should be taken how.

If there's a ladder, climb it; if there's an opportunity, make a fuss for it.

……

Four o'clock sharp.

Fang Ziye, along with a pile of bigwigs, saw off the expert team one by one, politely showing smiling faces, watching them board the administrative special cars and leave.

After this, Fang Ziye and the others saw off the school leaders in turn.

School affairs were busy; it was impossible for them all to stay in Enshi just because of Fang Ziye; they also had to go back, arrange things, and have others reorganize a plan.

To see if this time they could elevate Han City University's relatively weak Clinical College, use some concrete plans to let the Clinical College reach the extent of feeding back Han City University's "reputation."

These are all long-term plans of several years or even over a decade; they cannot explode directly just because of this one point.

However, the reason disciplines and colleges can become more awesome is precisely a chain reaction of exploding point by point!

……

After this, Fang Ziye again together with Lan Tianluo, Luo Tingzhu and others, personally saw the two old academicians Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua to the airport!

All team members bowed deeply to the two elders.

Gu Yuandong helped Fang Ziye up, then looked at Nie Mingxian and Liao Jia, saying: "Being able to see your team members come from various fields, we actually feel quite gratified."

"Currently, the barriers erected between specialties are too strong; many of us have the desire to break this barrier, but the difficulty is not small."

"However, we have actually all foreseen that the integration between specialties is the future form of medical development, and also one of the mainstream developments."

"Hope you young people can gradually peel away this layer of estrangement, release a leading and exemplary effect, so more people, like you, form combinations based on interest."

"The future belongs to you young people; actually we now, if we want to have too breakthrough results, our energy can't quite keep up."

Speaking to here, Gu Yuandong looked at Fang Ziye again, patted his shoulder, and said: "Multi-party cooperation is part of the future workstation."

After speaking, Gu Yuandong and Old Professor Qiu Zhenghua both entered the airport.

Went straight in, with no more hesitation or lingering.

However, Nie Mingxian and the others all turned their heads to look at Fang Ziye.

Nie Mingxian asked: "If I remember correctly, our country only has Academician Workstations, not Professor Workstations, right?"

Lan Tianluo heard this but shook his head: "No no no, Brother Nie, now there are already Professor Workstations too, it's just that their gold content is far inferior to Academician Workstations."

"This month Magic Capital has already trialed quite a few Professor Workstations."

"I think Teacher Gu's meaning is to let Senior Brother participate more in cooperation, exert a leading effect."

"Teacher Gu and Teacher Qiu both saw it; Senior Brother Fang's truly formidable place has shifted from here to here!" Lan Tianluo pointed at his hand, then pointed at his skull.

Fang Ziye smiled without answering.

In his heart he screamed wildly.

Level 6 skill, awesome!

(Chapter End)