Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"How are you going to raise money for me?" Yang Rui smiled and said, "Even if the participation rate of 1% of the Human Genome Project is 100 million yuan."

Speaking in today's season, billions of dollars is actually talking less.

As far as planning is concerned, one percent of the planned expenditure of 3 billion US dollars is 30 million US dollars, which is more than 100 million yuan.

Moreover, this 3 billion yuan is actually an experimental expenditure, not a project expenditure.

Among them, what is missing includes the expenses of various technical authorizations, the expenses of existing instruments and equipment, and the biggest personnel expenses.

This is the little trick played by the Americans, or Dalbecco and others.

The three major scientific projects in history, the Manhattan Project, needless to say, was a secret project during World War II. It cost tens of thousands of people to build atomic bombs in the desert. Many, but for the sake of war, there is no way. Everyone can only admit it with their noses pinched. Everything is for victory.

The Apollo moon landing program was a project during the Cold War. The so-called Cold War is just a war with less gunpowder. In the end, the United States was able to win the Cold War thanks to this project-the entire semiconductor industry can be said to have been conceived by the Apollo Moon Landing Project, which also expanded the United States. The national power gap between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union. Even in that year, the Apollo moon landing project was recognized by the people of the United States. Although the money spent was gone, it was still very confident.

The birth of the Human Genome Project was not so smooth.

In fact, Americans are more supportive of the Cancer Conquer Program launched in the late 1970s. In order to conquer cancer, Americans are really willing to spend any money. It feels like everyone has lost their lives.

Even in terms of money, spending money on scientific research is more cost-effective than spending money on super expensive medical insurance bills.

However, cancer is very difficult to conquer. It took 10 years to spend 1 billion dollars to conquer cancer, and finally failed. By the way, if there is any old Chinese doctor in China who can really conquer cancer, he must be mentally ill , selfish, preferring to prescribe medicine from 9 to 5 instead of lying down to make money.

The social security agencies or pharmaceutical companies in any country are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase formulas to overcome cancer, even if it is only for one type of person, see Gleevec. And his contribution will also change the history of mankind. He is as famous as Yuan Druid, and even sang by children in the rebellious period: Think about if Jobs is still alive, the Apple mobile phone can occupy at least hundreds of billions of minutes of human time.

Compared with the Cancer Conquer Program, the Human Genome Project is much more basic and indirect, and it costs much more.

It is difficult to get Americans to support a project that does not produce immediate results, and it is even more difficult to get a project that does not produce immediate results and costs a lot of money.

Therefore, including Watson, Dalbecco and others, no one dared to announce the real budget of the Human Genome Project. Even so, they gave up only fooling the richest American father in the universe, and set their sights on the whole world.

What are the benefits of the largest international project in human history?

The main thing is money.

First of all, it spreads the expenses equally. Any country that participates will have to pay for it. Even for a country, spending hundreds of millions of dollars is a bit painful. This is a pure expense, and it will be difficult to see the benefits in the future. of.

Another important aspect is that internationalization saves initial investment and saves daily expenses.

For example, the salaries of personnel are paid by the participating laboratories themselves.

Of course, after the Human Genome Project is launched, some subsidies will be given, but that is a drop in the bucket.

In the whole plan, if a team is randomly pulled out, it will be on the scale of hundreds or thousands of people. What is the daily expenses of a 1000-person scientific research ape? Although the salaries of scientific research apes are low,

But if all kinds of social security and office expenses are included, an average of US$50,000 per person per year is indispensable. It is equivalent to saying that 50 million US dollars cannot cover the expenses of a team for one year. The whole plan will take 10 years, and the expenses of a team alone will be more than 500 million US dollars, and 3 billion US dollars is only enough to cover the salary expenses of 6 teams!

However, the money has been hidden from the beginning.

The instruments and equipment used by these teams have been configured by various countries before, and they cannot be counted in the expenditure of the Human Genome Project.

This is the main reason why the Human Genome Project can use $3 billion to cover the entire project. Of course, from a technical point of view, more than expected technological progress has saved funds more directly.

But in any case, if you want to participate in such a project, you need to prepare a lot of money.

The top is at least a world-class laboratory, top scholars and world-class researchers, and abundant funding are all indispensable.

Yang Rui said that the funding of hundreds of millions of dollars barely reached the threshold.

This is also the reason why he dared to say that he did not need money from the treasury.

At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, it was the most difficult time for China's economy. The central government really couldn't afford money, let alone hundreds of millions, and 10 million was enough.

Among other things, now even various military institutes cannot get funding, how can such a basic project as the Human Genome Project get a large amount of central funding.

Yang Rui and Professor Cai are both teachers and friends, and they don't want him to make things difficult. They just laughed it off and said: "The reporters' words are not rough, and our country is still very difficult. The Human Genome Project is very important to me, and it is very important to many people. It is very important for everyone, but not for everyone. There is no reason to use the money from the treasury. I want to find some from state-owned enterprises, some from local governments, and some multinational companies. If it is not enough, I can talk to Dahl Let Beko talk to them and see if there are any foundations in the world that can provide some money."

Yang Rui did have other plans, but as far as changing money was concerned, it was really just these few parts.

State-owned enterprises spend money loosely. Especially state-owned enterprises that have to hand over most of their profits, many of them are adhering to the idea of ​​turning in money for nothing, and throwing money desperately when they are booming. Being able to collect some money from state-owned enterprises will definitely not affect the national economy and people's livelihood. At most, it will affect a few luxury suppliers so that they cannot quickly save money and emigrate overseas.

The same virtue applies to local governments. Later generations will see that a certain ministry spends money suddenly at the end of the year, in order not to reduce the budget next year. That's because the central government has more money after the tax reform. Before the tax reform, local governments were the ones spending money suddenly, especially in the coastal provinces with the most wealth.

Not to mention multinational companies and foundations, they make money in China and contribute to China's scientific research, which is perfectly legitimate.

Professor Cai frowned, and said, "I know you want money from state-owned enterprises, and money from local governments, do you want money?"

Yang Rui hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

"Have you ever participated in a wine bureau that costs 10,000 yuan for a glass of wine?" Professor Cai calmed down, and the topic of the question was quite sharp.

Yang Rui smiled wryly: "I seldom participate in wine games."

"That's right, because you don't have to ask them for money." Professor Cai sighed, "With your current prestige, it's easy to apply directly to the ministries and commissions for funding, but it's not so easy to get money from local governments. .”

Yang Rui was stunned for a while, and had to admit that Professor Cai's words made sense.

The aura of the Nobel Prize is not invincible. At the level of the central government, his aura is very powerful, but if he does not want money from the national treasury and asks a local government for money, it is not certain whether he can use the aura of the Nobel Prize.

"Are you impulsive?" Professor Cai laughed.

Yang Rui thought for a while, and said: "Although it was a decision made on the spot, I have actually considered this decision a long time ago. The country is not yet rich, and it needs to develop the economy, support these many people, and maintain the domestic and international situation. …It is unnecessary to take money from the treasury for the Human Genome Project.”

Although mosquito legs are also meat, you can't cut off the legs of pet mosquitoes, can you?

What Yang Rui didn't say was that if he took a large sum of money from the national treasury for funding, the funding for other domestic biology projects would definitely decrease.

Otherwise, scholars in other disciplines such as physical chemistry will have to make trouble.

And Professor Cai also knew this, and said slowly: "It's better to leave it to us to collect money from the local government."

"Hey, is it okay?" Yang Rui couldn't help but said, "This is hard work."

"Everyone is familiar with something. What is troublesome for you is easy for some people." Professor Cai said with a smile, and then said in a solemn tone: "Everyone is counting on you to introduce the Human Genome Project. "

For scholars, participating in international projects is naturally the best thing.

Yang Rui said without hesitation: "It's okay to introduce the Human Genome Project, but the proportion of who can have it can't be determined by the relationship."

Professor Cai understood: "It depends on how much money you can find."

"Well, it's quite fair." Yang Rui laughed with Professor Cai as he spoke.

After sending Professor Cai away, Yang Rui packed up again, got into a car, and headed to Huarui Laboratory.

As its own independent private laboratory, Sinovel's capital is considered strong in the entire Southeast Asia region, and its personnel of various instruments and equipment are steadily surpassing the biological laboratories of most international universities.

However, what private labs fear most is bottomless projects.

In essence, a private laboratory is the same as a company. In a world where you die without cash flow, everyone has to avoid bottomless projects.

Yang Rui happened to know where the entrance of the cave was.

"Let's start a pre-research project first." Yang Rui clapped his hands and called everyone in the laboratory together, without saying a word of mobilization, he said: "The current method of gene sequencing is too old-fashioned, I want a new model .”

"Gene sequencing? Is it appropriate for us to do this?" Tu Xian and others are willing to participate in the Human Genome Project, but private participation in this thing is still a bit of a talk.

"Appropriate." Yang Rui said without a word: "I have already announced that I will not use treasury money. In this case, there is no reason for other laboratories to pre-research gene sequencing methods before the special funds arrive. I use my own It’s right to do it with money.”

"Okay." Tu Xian and others nodded.

Huang Mao took out the notebook and said, "Then start a new project, what's the name of the project?"

"Shotgun." What Yang Rui thought in his heart was the famous "Shotgun Method".

If the human genome project is compared to the Apollo moon landing project, the shotgun method is the manned spaceship!