On Nov.1, the 6th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, "Create Youth", was successfully held by the Central Committee of the Communist Young League (CYL), Central Internet Security and Information Leading Group and other six organizations in Qingdao, Shandong province.
Guided by Mr. Li Xiaofeng from the Second Clinical College,the project from our school named "Immunological Reagent Screening Kitbasedonthe Detection of Rheumatism Etiology" won gold award in the national finals, and was awarded "The Most Influential Brand". Fu Zhenbang,thesecretary of the CYL Central Committee, Wang Xiulin,thevice chairman of Shandong Provincial Consultative Conference, and the leaders from the sponsoring organization attended the closing ceremony and presented awards for winning teams.
"Create Youth" Competition is an important platform for the youth to carry out innovation and entrepreneurship activities.In recent years, School League Committee of SXMU has beenguiding student innovation and entrepreneurship teamsin the light of "Combine medicine with engineering and make good use of the internet".
Through three levels competition in county, city and province, 310 projects from universities and enterprises eventually entered the national finals.In the end, 13 gold, 41 silver and 81 bronze awards were determined after fierce competition.The project from our school was the only one in Shanxi province that won gold award.
The "Immunological Reagent Screening Kit Based on the Detection of Rheumatism Etiology " project was based on the world's first immunoscreening technology developed by our team. By directly labeling the IL-17 receptor on the surface membranes of Th17 cells and the Foxp3 gene in the nucleus of Treg cells combined with magnetic bead quantification technology, this technology achieved a significant breakthrough in the quantitative determination of the absolute numbers of Th17 and Treg. Itwasfound that many rheumatisms are caused by the defect of immunologic tolerance of Treg cells owing to their decrease. This finding subverted the traditional misconceptions about the etiology of rheumatism, and the discovered immunomodulatory therapy had achieved ideal treatment effect. Besides, our team also cooperated with North China Pharmaceutical to complete the experiment of the new use of rapamycin.
This competition attracted many young entrepreneurs with the theme of “Today is a new era for the youth to gain achievement and pursue their entrepreneurial dreams”.During the conference, more than 30 exchange activities were held and 96 investment intentions were reached on the spot.
