From March 16th to 19th, Richard J. Roberts, WHU’s Honorary Professor, also known as the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine was invited to lecture at WHU. When welcoming him in a meeting, Executive Vice President Feng Youmei discussed China’s higher education with him and expressed the hope of higher level cooperation in scientific research and joint lab construction.

On March 17th, Roberts headed to the Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, where he raised a series of questions to the young teachers and graduates after hearing their introduction to the research. In the afternoon, he delivered an academic report on scientific research in the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

On March 18th, Roberts lectured on the atlas of bacterial methylene in WHU’s old library. He specifically introduced methylene, bacteria’s restriction and modification system, as well as how to measure the atlas of bacterial methylene by using third generations of sequencing.

As the chief scientist from U.S New England Biolabs Incorporation, Richard J. Roberts began his study on the typeⅡ restriction enzyme in 1972 and won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his discovery on division gene and mRNA splicing. He has published more than 230 academic theses in journals such as Science, Nature and Cell. He was conferred the title of  WHU’s Honorary Professor in 2012.(edited by Sijia Hu)