University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

It was in the lecture hall of the International Conference Center at the UCAS Yanqihu campus that I saw Professor Zhou Qi for the first time. Professor Zhou Qi, member of CAS, an stem-cell expert and reproductive biologist, was then giving a lecture on “the mysterious stem cell” to more than 500 middle and primary school students from Beijing. In the mixture of passion, interest and stiflingly scorching summer air, Professor Zhou Qi tranquilly talked.

Cong Huan, 31 years old now, still looks like a student. Sometimes he talks with confidence and assurance, and sometimes he is a little shy. However, it is this “big boy” that studied in the United States at the Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology for about 10 years, and was selected into the 11th batch of young talents for the “Thousand Talents Program” in 2015.