Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the list of 2020 National Multi-Million Talent Project, Prof. Li Shaowei was included and awarded the honorary title of " Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions".
Shaowei Li was a Professor of School of Life Sciences / School of Public Health, a PhD Supervisor, Head of Vaccine Group, National Center for Infectious Disease Diagnostic Reagents and Vaccine Engineering and Research, selected by the Ministry of Education in 2011 for the New Century Excellent Talents Program, a member of the 9th Biochemical and Biotechnology Drug Committee of Chinese Pharmaceutical Society, and an editorial board member of theInternational Journal of Biologics. As a core researcher, he participated in the development of the world's first hepatitis E vaccine and China's first cervical cancer vaccine. He was awarded the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of National Technology Invention Award, the Collective Award for Outstanding Achievement in Qiushi, the Sanofi Young Biopharmaceuticals Award of Chinese Pharmaceutical Society, and the 10th Zijin Science and Technology Innovation Award, etc. He has published more than 80 SCI papers, engaged in the edition ofContemporary Vaccinology(2nd edition) in 2020, and obtained 21 granted invention patents. In 2017, Prof. Shaowei Li and Prof. Ning Shao Xia were both included in Nature Biotechnology's Top 20 Global Translational Researchers of 2016,becoming the first Chinese scientists selected.
The "National Multi-Million Talent Project" is a brand talent selection project organized by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, in conjunction with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the China Association for Science and Technology, to select and cultivate young and middle-aged academic and technical leaders in China. The project selects talents who can lead leapfrog development at the frontiers of science and technology. So far, a total of 25 people from our university have been selected into the National Multi-Million Talent Project.