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Fang Ziye was genuinely flustered. Professor Zhang Limin alone made Fang Ziye feel unable to confront him directly.

Moreover, those seated in the conference hall were numerous academicians and leading figures from various medical specialties and fields—

Ma Jun, Hao Xishan, Ding Jian, Zhang Limin, Tang Jie, Bi Dong, and Wei Yuquan, Academicians!

Professors Gu Yuandong and Qiu Zhenghua provided significant guidance and support to Fang Ziye, which made Fang Ziye realize that the vision, perspective, and ability to handle affairs of these influential figures far surpassed his own.

Given the special nature of this meeting, it's impossible for Fang Ziye not to be flustered. And now, for some unknown reason, Xie Heng has pushed him into a corner, making it seem like he can't remain silent.

Fang Ziye explained simply: "Currently, our small team has only some ideas for chemotherapy of orthopedic tumors, namely, using a micro-circulation device in the case of chronic osteomyelitis with multiple infections, employing a method of interrupting circulation, breaking down the whole process into smaller parts..."

"Using this method, we have successfully treated several terminal cases of osteomyelitis with multiple infections and systemic metastases in clinical practice."

"So our team made a bold guess that the miniature circulation device might be effective in treating orthopedic tumors."

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Fang Ziye saw Xie Heng's subtle smile. Professor Zhang Limin and the others also turned around, their eyes scanning Fang Ziye from head to toe with extremely complicated expressions. Many of them seemed to want to say something but held back.

After all, everyone just stated that China's basic research in oncology is still in its early stages. Some theories need to be refined before they can be advanced towards treatment, and this takes time...

However, Fang Ziye suddenly jumped out and said that orthopedic tumors are no longer subject to the control of other tumors and can form their own lineage.

It can't be said to be 'sudden'. Xie Heng knew about these things, which meant that the other 'leaders' sitting on the stage also knew, but there was no official announcement or press release.

After Fang Ziye finished speaking, Zhang Limin still decided to speak cautiously: "Professor Fang, is the research topic your research group mentioned a direction, or are you already conducting animal experiments?"

"Is this theory just a guess within your research group, or has it already formed a relatively closed loop?"

"Have these questions been carefully discussed and verified regarding whether this treatment plan can indeed be applied in clinical practice?"

Zhang Limin's actions, though seemingly argumentative, were actually aimed at protecting Fang Ziye, ensuring that Fang Ziye refrained from making baseless statements or boasting at meetings of this level.

Especially in an environment where other teams don't dare to speak up, if you suddenly step in and say you can solve a specialized tumor, it will make the others lose face.

Similarly, if it's confirmed that you accepted the relevant task but were unable to complete it or provide a convincing explanation, then the joke has gone a bit too far.

After hearing Professor Zhang Limin finish speaking, Xie Heng said, "Professor Fang, how about this: you could explain in more detail to the experts present the principles of orthopedic tumors and the microcirculation device, and let them also help review the feasibility of this research direction."

Xie Heng did not deliberately stir up trouble, but rather objectively handed over the right to speak to Fang Ziye temporarily.

Fang Ziye reorganized his thoughts, but did not reply to Xie Heng. After about half a minute, he returned to Professor Zhang Limin's topic, bowing slightly. "Professor Zhang is indeed a professional teacher. He immediately hit the nail on the head."

"Currently, our research direction has only undergone internal discussions, and at most, it has been recognized as feasible by our teachers in the bone tumor department at specialized academic conferences."

"But whether it will be successful remains to be seen, and we'll have to wait for the data to tell. Right now, all I can say is that our team is very much looking forward to its successful and effective application in orthopedic tumors; it's just a hope..."

Fang Ziye was cautious, but not overly modest.

It wasn't that Fang Ziye wanted to show off, but rather that he had truly seen hope in this research topic and couldn't be irresponsible towards it.

"So you led the team that improved the miniature circulation device, making it stand out from the whole-body circulation device? But that's just my memory..."

"Miniature circulatory devices are currently mostly used for emergency care, so why are they being used for orthopedic tumors?"

"How can it be used for orthopedic tumors?" The speaker was Academician Tang Jie, a thoracic surgeon who has long been dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and esophageal cancer.

He was very familiar with the relatively new domestically produced microcirculator, because a while ago, a company had specifically consulted him about the possibility of improving the pulmonary circulator to extend the transport time of the prosthesis in lung transplantation.
Tang Jie did not agree to this research, but he knew that many people had this idea and thought, which was based on the successful improvement of the limb micro-circulation device, and this device was of great help in the preservation of severed limbs.

The experts present are all highly qualified and have made significant progress in basic research, but they are not specialists in bone tumors, or even in orthopedics.

Orthopedic tumor treatment is still in its infancy within the broader field of oncology—this is an undeniable fact.

At very important national conferences on oncology, there are virtually no orthopedic specialists participating. The main reason is that orthopedics does not include internal medicine, so there are not many people who conduct in-depth research and exploration into the basic principles of orthopedics, and their understanding is limited.

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye could only reiterate the concept of "breaking down the whole into parts" in chronic osteomyelitis, starting from the operating principle of the microcirculation device, as well as the principle of high limb amputation.

He then summarized: "Based on the current research data from our research group and my professor's team, the micro-circulation instrument can successfully disconnect the circulation cross section, which can be roughly divided into the following parts."

"Hips, mid-thigh, knee, mid-calf, and ankle."

“Similar to these anatomical structures, our upper limbs also have corresponding segments.”

"Therefore, during chemotherapy, if we consider the distal ends of these segments as a whole, then the tumors located in these areas are essentially detached from the body's circulation."

"Our miniature circulation device incorporates a dialysis unit, allowing the chemotherapy drugs to be metabolized and absorbed naturally after each cycle..."

"Therefore, our team made a bold guess that our orthopedic tumor chemotherapy can bypass the metabolism of human organs and organs, and unrelated organs can be spared the effects of chemotherapy drugs."

"This can minimize the side effects of chemotherapy..."

"Because the current chemotherapy regimens limit the dosage and types of drugs based on their side effects, but with this transformation, the range of chemotherapy drugs that can be used in orthopedic tumor chemotherapy will actually be relatively broadened."

"And the dosage will be several times higher than current chemotherapy drugs..."

quiet!
Quiet!

still.

You can hear the needle drop.

Fang Ziye noticed that many people, regardless of whether their hair was white, gray, or black, all had their mouths slightly open.

Frozen expression, astonished, incredulous, and a little bit of a headache...

Everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door, and don't care about other people's frost.

This is the only mindset everyone currently has.

No? Your orthopedics department?
Your orthopedics department?

You orthopedic doctors are really despicable...

You were already relatively unknown and your research wasn't very deep. Now, you're taking a completely different approach from the conventional path of international oncology research. You've gone off on a completely different track and headed straight for the 'North Pole', haven't you?
Most others are focused on developing tumor-specific targeted therapies, which are essentially drugs for treating specific diseases.

Your orthopedics department is doing something else, directly removing orthopedic segments from the human body. What are you going to do about tumors from other specialties?

Since there's no way to learn from each other, will they really become independent entities, each heading in completely different directions?
Moreover, these things do seem to make some sense.

No one spoke, no one clapped, and even everyone's breathing became very still.

This reflects the personal cultivation of highly qualified and influential individuals.

Fang Ziye felt that sometimes it wasn't a good thing to be surrounded by high-caliber big shots, because they wouldn't give you feedback or any response, and you wouldn't know whether you should continue talking.

However, Fang Ziye still said: "Currently, our team's clinical application of the micro-circulation device is only for the treatment of multiple infections. By breaking down the multiple infections into smaller parts, the infection can be quickly controlled."

"The relationship between antibiotics and infection treatment is actually very similar to the effect of chemotherapy drugs on tumors; it's a rather unconventional form of chemotherapy!"

"However, all of this is still under investigation, so our team can only predict whether the results will be reliable. We are currently conducting animal experiments..."

"Thank you for listening, experts." Seeing that everyone's reactions were not quite right, Fang Ziye didn't waste any more words. He bowed slightly and temporarily ended his speech.

Only when Fang Ziye began his closing remarks did a few spontaneous claps finally appear, but the applause was sparse.

Some people stopped clapping after seeing that others weren't, while others started clapping after hearing others clap.

The applause was scattered for about ten seconds before falling completely silent.

Professor Zhang Limin and the others remained silent, but Xie Heng seemed to have found a breakthrough and took over the conversation: "Experts, we don't mean to make things difficult for you. We are here to seek your advice and hope to find a possibility by pooling our wisdom."

"I hope everyone can give full play to their professional initiative and find a suitable solution in their respective fields."

"Whether it's copying drugs, developing popular targeted therapies, or, like Professor Fang, finding a new and potentially feasible treatment method, these are all viable options."

"Treatment can take many forms, and so can cancer treatment."

"As far as I know, some tumors can be cured by simple resection, some by radiotherapy, some by chemotherapy alone, and some require a combination of adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy with surgical resection."

"There are also some tumors that can be cured through interventional embolization surgery..."

"There are three thousand great paths, but they all lead to the same destination."

"Currently, our country is facing bottlenecks in the supply of medical drugs and equipment. We fully understand the responsibilities and difficulties faced by the experts."

"We must recognize..." Leaders are all good at writing 'short essays,' at least from a 'macro' perspective, they can say some trivial things.

To want both, to acknowledge the current difficulties and accept the current situation, but also to want this and that...

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye felt relieved.

Fortunately, Xie Heng didn't push himself to the brink of ruin, nor did he constantly try to impress others in an unconventional way. Instead, he attracted a lot of attention in a perfectly timed way.

For example, several professors sitting near Fang Ziye had already started to slack off and directly added Fang Ziye on WeChat.

Moreover, he wrote down his company, name, major, etc. on a piece of paper, and Fang Ziye answered them one by one.

We're in a meeting right now, so we can't use QR codes or anything like that; we'll have to search manually.

Fang Ziye didn't dare to be arrogant, thinking that he shouldn't add friends while in a meeting. Meetings aren't always full of valuable information, and it's necessary to take breaks sometimes...

After an unknown amount of time, Xie Heng finally said, "In our medical industry, there are many patients with every disease, and they are all closely related to the lives, health, and property of our people."

"The country attaches great importance to this, but we must also recognize the positioning of our country's medical industry, so we will not impose tasks on it, but the country has always been supporting the transformation of our country's medical industry."

"China remains the world's leading manufacturing nation in the medical industry."

"What is a craft country? It means that we only do things, but the raw materials for doing things, medical equipment, medicines, etc., are mostly imported, and we don't have our own patented products. This needs to be developed slowly."

"The country has always provided special funds to support this area, so if you experts have good research directions, you should not worry about insufficient funding."

"The National Health Commission and the National Natural Science Foundation have always had such special funds. We hope that everyone can pool their wisdom and efforts to take at least the first step towards independent patents and moving from manual manufacturing to exporting high-end products."

"That concludes this morning's meeting. I hope that my remarks this afternoon will spark some good ideas..."

"The meeting is now adjourned. Thank you for your hard work, experts." Xie Heng quickly announced the end of the morning session's 'nonsense' and discussions on the big picture, leaving only the discussion of specific matters to follow.

No matter how much you repeat yourself, it's useless. Scientific research in any country in the world is not achieved simply by repeating yourself.

Take China's high-speed rail, for example. Did it start up just by talking?
Before Xie Heng and the others had left, Zhang Limin stood up and said, "Professor Fang Ziye, wait a moment."

Fang Ziye had just started packing up his notebook and hadn't even stood up to leave yet.

He raised his head.

However, after looking around, he realized that Professor Zhang Limin's words had stopped the physical movements of several professors who were a little far away from him but had not had a chance to contact him before.

However, their gaze was not one of obedience, but rather one of scrutiny: should I listen to what this newly elected academician has to say?
Professor Zhang Limin is a newly elected academician. Can you say that his research experience is a level higher than others, forming an order-of-magnitude gap?

I'm sorry, no, so I need to assess whether I should offend you.

However, the title of academician was ultimately more useful, so no one said anything.

After all, many people had seen Professor Zhang Limin and Professor Fang Ziye having a private conversation before the meeting started.

This proves that the two had a certain personal relationship.

If you interfere in other people's private relationships, it's like handing food to Zhang Limin. Aren't you just asking for trouble? "Hello, Teacher Zhang!" Fang Ziye quickened the pace of closing his notebook.

When Fang Ziye looked at Zhang Limin, he noticed that not everyone was moving in his direction. If Fang Ziye was not mistaken, the person following Zhang Limin was Academician Wei Yuquan.

Academician Wei Yuquan, whom Fang Ziye remembers vividly, was born in 59 and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 04, which means he reached this point at the age of 45!
Another person is Zhan Qiming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

These are all big shots.

"Teacher Zhang, Teacher Zhan, Teacher Wei..." As the three approached, Fang Ziye quickly bowed in greeting.

To be honest, Fang Ziye originally came here to be a nobody and never thought he might be sitting in the center position. Moreover, before he came, Dean Chen Song told him not to show off.

But there was nothing he could do. That Xie Heng was determined to show off, and he directly called him out by name. Fang Ziye couldn't just stay silent.

Wouldn't that just confirm that I'm completely incompetent for coming to this conference?
Fang Ziye was still thinking about taking shots...

"Professor Fang is very young?" A thick Sichuan accent pierced the ears; it was Professor Wei Yuquan's voice.

He wore glasses, was slightly overweight, had very black hair, thick eyebrows, flat eyes, sharp gaze, and thick lips, but his whole demeanor exuded an air of righteousness.

"Teacher Wei, thank you for your praise." Fang Ziye smiled again, as if his eyebrows had been beautified.

Zhang Limin smiled and said, "Teacher Wei, Teacher Zhan, can you guess how old Xiao Fang is this year?"

"Thirty-seven?" Wei Yuquan tried to guess that Fang Ziye was younger, since Fang Ziye did look quite young.

"Seven or eight years younger!" Zhang Limin couldn't be completely sure either. He didn't know if Fang Ziye's birthday had passed or if he was thirty.

Upon hearing this, Professor Zhan Qiming, who was usually all six-foot-tall, with a straight posture and a smile on his face, froze!

"Ahem!~" He had a wide nose and uniquely shaped eyes, which were like fish eyes. He looked very refined, but at this moment he couldn't be refined at all. He opened his mouth wide in a comical way.

Professor Wei Yuquan wasn't much better off; his once handsome features could only be described as oddly shaped...

"Professor Wei, Professor Zhan, this Professor Fang is actually the friend I mentioned to you two before who is not in this field. He is Fang Ziye, a PhD from Zhongnan Hospital affiliated with Wuhan University."

"That young man who was trying to hit the old man was also lacking in martial ethics," Zhang Limin complained at the time.

Professor Wei Yuquan, known for his upright character, composed himself after listening and began patting Fang Ziye on the shoulder with his right hand: "That's quite a tall guy!"

The words "very high" coming from Professor Wei Yuquan's mouth immediately startled Fang Ziye.

Is this something an academician said or something a street thug said?

However, academicians are still human. "High-handed" is a common saying in China. It doesn't mean that you can't say "damn it" just because you're an academician. It just means you should try your best to maintain your composure.

"Let's go, let's go eat!" Zhang Limin saw that Fang Ziye was frozen in shock and knew the psychological pressure Fang Ziye was under at the moment.

When I was Fang Ziye's age, I would tremble in the face of well-known professors in my field, let alone in front of the leading scientific research figures in China.
"Hehehe...hehehe..." Fang Ziye could imagine his own expression; it looked just like a lapdog.

Fang Ziye was originally confident, but after attending the academic conference led by Professor Zhang Limin, he discovered that these big shots had very flexible thinking, but due to practical reasons, some of their ideas could not be put into practice.

"Does Professor Fang have a girlfriend?"

"A girl from our Sichuan province?" Wei Yuquan asked as he walked out of the conference room.

Fang Ziye quickly replied, "My wife is from City Yu."

The girls in Yu City and Rongcheng were similar in many ways. Upon hearing this, Wei Yuquan stopped talking about changing girlfriends, lest he have to give Fang Ziye a favor when he died.

"The girls from Sichuan and Chongqing are all very nice, beautiful and generous. Professor Fang has a good eye..."

"Well, Professor Zhang Limin, Professor Zhan Qiming, and I are all engaged in..." Professor Wei Yuquan was quite polite and took the initiative to introduce the industries they were engaged in.

After Wei Yuquan introduced himself, Professor Zhang Limin formally introduced Fang Ziye to their respective social positions and professional fields.

Academician Zhan Qiming is an expert in molecular oncology, primarily engaged in research on tumor molecular biology and translational medicine. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011.

He is the chief expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Innovation Group, the chief scientist of the National 973 Major Basic Research Project, and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council.

In recent years, the genetic mutation background of esophageal cancer has been comprehensively and systematically revealed at the genomic level, providing a theoretical and experimental basis for understanding the pathogenesis of esophageal cancer, finding molecular markers for the diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, and identifying drug targets for clinical treatment.

Academician Wei Yuquan is mainly engaged in basic research, key technology development, product research and development and clinical treatment of tumor biotherapy. Regarding tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy, gene therapy and targeted drugs, he discovered that blocking HSP70 expression can induce apoptosis of cancer cells.

Utilizing active immune anti-tumor angiogenesis provides a new approach for tumor vaccines and anti-tumor angiogenesis therapy. It combines xenogeneic homologous genes with xenogeneic immune rejection and autoimmune responses to explore tumor immunogene therapy, which can overcome tolerance to self-antigens. Furthermore, the phenomenon of lymphocytes killing autocrine cancer cells within the tumor microenvironment was observed, and the induction and enhancement of lymphocyte activity in killing autocrine cancer cells were investigated.

Both of them are engaged in relatively basic tumor research, which is actually not the same track as Fang Ziye.

If the three academicians followed the internal cultivation path, Fang Ziye followed the external path of the Vajra Palm technique, believing that great strength can produce miracles.

You're developing new drugs, right? I'll just use the old ones. I treat bone tumors, and it doesn't matter how good the drugs are; as long as there are any available, that's good enough.

Because my patients can tolerate the duration of medication, the side effects are minimal.

Soon, the group arrived at the restaurant.

The restaurant is large and has several floors, so diners can sit in their own groups.

After the meeting, there were many people having lunch, so no one disturbed the three of them.

"Professor Fang, who in your team has the strongest execution ability? I've heard some of your previous ideas come up as completely unrealistic and flawed, yet they actually come to fruition in reality?" Professor Wei Yuquan is straightforward and speaks rather bluntly.

Treating tumors by directly cutting off circulation—is that even a normal person's way of thinking?
Even if Fang Ziye's theory is based on evidence, relying on the cyclic amputation theory of high-level limb amputation, others are in the terminal stage.

It was a desperate measure, a last resort, so they took a risky approach and had to amputate the limbs high up in order to save the life.

What you've done is completely cut off the local blood circulation.

In any case, from their perspective, this kind of thinking is outrageous. Their ancestors opened the door to outrageousness, and outrageousness sent them to the underworld!

However, Fang Ziye's team actually succeeded in making it.

"I have some friends and myself, and we are all capable of execution, so we tinkered around with this and that and achieved a little bit of success."

"These results are not enough in the eyes of the teachers," Fang Ziye said modestly.

"No, no, no." Zhan Qiming immediately shook his head, rejecting Fang Ziye's modesty.

He held a phone in his left hand and chopsticks in his right, and said, "You also pioneered limb-sparing surgery and functional reconstruction surgery for severe injuries?"

"Did you lead the team to improve the micro circulator?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Limin's heart skipped a beat: "Professor Zhan, where did this news come from? I couldn't find it online."

“I asked a friend at Zhongnan Hospital directly!” Zhan Qiming said.

"Du Yingshan from the Bone Tumor Department of Zhongnan Hospital, we used to be friends."

"It seems that your output is quite impressive, Xiao Fang, but you are a little inexperienced and haven't had time to fully develop your skills."

"You've given us all a big problem today. You've removed the tumor from your orthopedic department, overtaken others on a curve, and established your own independent department. What are we specialists supposed to do?"

Currently, improvements to the micro-circulatory system are ongoing.

However, apart from limb circulation devices, circulation devices for other organs are difficult to develop, and even if they are developed, they are difficult to apply in clinical practice.

This is almost impossible to replicate.

If there's a question, you have to answer it, even if the answer isn't perfect: "Professor Zhan, I didn't think that much about it at the time."

"Moreover, individual abilities are limited, and there's no time to think about all that."

"That's me. I've encountered some patients who came to my workplace seeking my help, but at the time I had no solution."

"It was a child, so I immediately refused!"

"How is he now? I don't know if he's still alive, and I haven't followed up with him."

The various coincidences and serendipities in this world are beyond description.

If it were now, and he met that little boy's parents again, Fang Ziye would definitely be able to help them find a solution.

But that was last year, when Fang Ziye had just been discharged from the hospital and was at a loss!
Helpless, even if he had a cheat code, he could only refuse.

Professor Zhang Limin said, "Professor Fang is right not to think so much, right, Professor Zhan?"

Zhan Qiming is very famous at Kyoto University. He was the former vice president and also conducted basic research, focusing on oncology. He had previously mentored Professor Zhang Limin.

"Just kidding!"

"Professor Fang, if you can really make the treatment of bone tumors a completely new field, break the existing pattern of tumor treatment, and directly shatter the mature status quo of existing bone tumor treatment, that would be a good thing."

"Hopefully it will be very useful."

“Every cancer patient is actually…” Zhan Qiming is not without compassion, but he has no choice.

Who doesn't know the market value, economic value, and social benefits of targeted cancer drugs?
Why can't it be developed?

Because you don't do cancer research, your view of Professor Zhan Qiming and others is like a frog in a well looking at the moon in the sky. If you were involved in cancer research, you would find that seeing these people is like an ant trying to see the blue sky.

If cancer research were so easy, all cancers in the world would have been conquered long ago.

Some people say that modern medical treatments are like "pig farming," which reflects a sense of "persecution."

These people have absolutely no idea how devastating tuberculosis outbreaks can be, how unpredictable life and death can be, or how terrifying epidemics of diseases like schistosomiasis and malaria can be...

Some people would rather believe that the food they eat is safe, green, and harmless than believe that many of the doctors in white coats in modern hospitals are actually treating them.

They would rather believe that diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes can be cured completely than that these diseases are incurable.

"Keep it up, Professor Fang. I hope to hear good news from you soon."

"It's good to break through each tumor as soon as possible."

"I hope there can be more people like Academician Wang Zhenyi so that our country's medical and health undertakings can flourish," Academician Zhan Qiming encouraged.

“Professor Zhan, you overestimate us. Our team is just getting started,” Fang Ziye said.

"Yes, Academician Wang has been researching leukemia for seven or eight years. Do you expect to achieve results in seven or eight days or seven or eight months?"

"Are you treating yourself like a human being, or are you treating these old professors and seniors like human beings?" Zhan Qiming's question was clear and crisp, with a smile on his face, and he wasn't really trying to make things difficult for Fang Ziye.

"Is your research group's funding sufficient right now? If not, you can take this opportunity to ask for some more," Zhan Qiming asked.

Although Fang Ziye is not in the same field as him, Fang Ziye's field is really unlikely to affect Zhan Qiming's position, nor can it cause him any 'crisis'.

Therefore, he was willing to help.

"It's enough for now, and we'll have some more special funds coming in gradually!" Fang Ziye said with a smile.

Thanks to the good fortune of the two senior academicians from the sanatorium and the orthopedics department, special research funds arrived for the research group right after the hearing last month, without any delay.

Furthermore, they stated that anyone could ask for anything under five million, they should be cautious about asking for around twenty million, and for fifty million, a meeting would be needed before giving it to them...

Fang Ziye was sitting. He had originally planned to stand and act like a lackey, but it seemed he didn't have the opportunity. He already had the 'qualification' to barely speak on equal terms with the academicians!
(End of this chapter)