On September 20, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University and the College of Pharmacy of Sun Yat-sen University (Shenzhen) jointly held the ‘International Masters Frontier Forum at Sun Yat-sen University’ on the Southern Campus of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Sir Ian Wilmut, the Father of Cloning, was invited to present on the topic - From Dolly to Individual Medicine. His presentation covered a description of the origin of Dolly, the cloned sheep, and a profound introduction to the development of stem cell technology. As for participants, more than 300 teachers and students attended this event. Deng Wenbin, the Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Sun Yat-sen University (Shenzhen), presided over the meeting. More than 300 teachers and students attended this event. Xiao Haipeng, the Vice-President of Sun Yat-sen University, Pan Yihang, Vice-President of Sun Yat-sen University and other professors and researchers also participated in the meeting.

International Masters Frontier Forum at Sun Yat-sen University

On September 21, Sir Wilmut and his research team visited the Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. Mainly, they joined to discuss on future collaborations, including treatments based on stem cell technology for malignant tumours, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and biological 3D printing for tissue and organ repairment. Sir Wilmut and his research team were notably impressed by the current development, the vision of scientific research and the second phase construction plan of the Seventh Affiliated Hospital. Additionally, Sir Wilmut raised a high hope of cooperating with the hospital and the College of Pharmacy (Shenzhen) to establish a platform for stem cell technology research and its application transformation.

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Sir Ian Wilmut is the Chairman of the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1997, the Ian Wermuth scientific research group announced to the world the birth of "Dolly", the very first cloned sheep. It initiated a new era that a sheep for the very first time was successfully cloned with mature differentiated somatic cell nuclei (breast cells) through nuclear transfer technology. This breakthrough is a great leap in scientific achievements and in cloning domain, which is highly praised by the Science, a magazine of the United States, ‘one of the world's top ten scientific and technological advances in 1997 also one of the most eye-catching international news’.