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CAS Vice President LI Jiayang and his counterpart at the Max Planck Society Herbert Jäckle are present at Uli Schwarz Laboratory renaming ceremony held on 16 October at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology (PICB) in Shanghai.
Uli Schwarz Laboratory renaming ceremony was held on 16 October at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology (PICB) in Shanghai. CAS Vice President Prof. LI Jiayang and Vice President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) Prof. Herbert Jäckle were present at the ceremony to unveil its nameplate.
Prof. Uli Schwarz (1934-2006), a renowned biologist and former directors of the CAS Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies (SIAS) and the Max Planck Society (MPG) Institute for Developmental Biology, had devoted himself to S&T cooperation and exchanges between China and Germany since the 1980s.
Prof. Schwarz also did a lot of work for the establishment of PICB in 2005, which is the first overseas institute co-sponsored by MPG. By recruiting competent scientists from across the world, the institute has forged fruitful cooperation with world-class institutions and is taking on important research projects.
With an objective of integrating experimental science with computational and theoretical biology, PICB have decided to consolidate its biological lab with the MPG guest lab. The new lab is named after Prof. Schwarz to mark his outstanding contributions to the rewarding partnership between CAS and MPG
Also present at the ceremony were Prof. PEI Gang, president of Tong Ji University, CHEN Xiaoya, president of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Heinrich Pfeiffer, former president of Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Ms. Ula Schwarz, wife of the late Prof. Uli Schwarz.