“混不下去回国了”？颜宁回应：说这话的人多崇洋媚外啊

近日，中国科学院院士、深圳医学科学院创始院长、深圳湾实验室主任颜宁针对冷冻电镜技术的发展和一些“黑粉”言论作出回应。

Chinese structural biologist Yan Ning has publicly defended the transformative scientific value of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and AI-enabled structure prediction in response to online skepticism.

颜宁在个人微博中写道：“AlphaFold突破，无知者：‘颜宁的专业被取代了，混不下去回国了’（不是，这么说话的人有没有意识到自己心里是多崇洋媚外啊，合着潜意识就觉得出国才是升，只有混不下去才能回国，而不是因为更好的环境？都21世纪第三个十年了，某些人骨子里的那些自卑就别无知无畏地丢人现眼了）；专业人员：AI赋能，终于又能摆脱一部分重复劳动了，可惜AF还不太行，好多预测不出来或者预测不准。”

Referring to advances in AlphaFold, Yan said some uninformed commentators wrongly viewed AI as replacing her field and interpreted her return to China as a sign of limited prospects abroad.

She criticized such views as reflecting an outdated bias that equates overseas careers with success while seeing a return to China as a fallback, rather than a choice driven by better opportunities.

颜宁院士在微博中说：

“娱乐博主潜水多了，经常看到一个说法‘粉黑都满意’——这个好像也特适用于我们学科。

冷冻电镜技术横空出世（这真的是game changer），三位在该领域深耕半世纪的前辈得诺奖，无知者：‘看，他们只会利用电镜发论文灌水’；结构生物学研究人员则是喜大普奔，终于不用把宝贵的时间用在令人绝望的结晶这一步了，我们被赋能了，加速了理解生命、药物研发的进程。”

Yan said groundbreaking tools in structural biology are often misunderstood by non-specialists. She described cryo-EM as a "game changer" that has freed researchers from the time-consuming and often frustrating process of crystallization, significantly accelerating discoveries in the life sciences and drug development.

据深圳特区报、深圳医学科学院消息，近日，深圳医学科学院颜宁团队联合清华大学团队，在《科学》发表糖质结构研究重磅成果。这项成果为复杂糖质高级结构的发现、鉴定与工程化利用提供了新的方法学框架，标志着糖质结构生物学正进入原子分辨率解析的新阶段。

公开资料显示，颜宁1977年11月出生于山东章丘，2000年本科毕业于清华大学，2004年博士毕业于2023普林斯顿大学。2007年，年仅30岁的颜宁任清华大学教授、博士生导师，成为“清华最年轻教授”。

Yan received her bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 2000 and conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University from 2005 to 2007. She established a lab in Tsinghua University in October 2017, which focused on the structural and functional study of membrane transport proteins and made a series of accomplishments in eight years.

2022年11月1日，颜宁宣布回国，辞去普林斯顿大学教职，到深圳创立医学科学院。2022年12月10日，她出任深圳医学科学院院长。2023年3月，她获聘为深圳湾实验室主任，同年11月当选中国科学院院士。

At the 2022 Shenzhen Global Innovative Forum of Talents, Yan announced that she would resign from Princeton and return to China to help establish the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation.

In November 2023, Yan was appointed director of Shenzhen Bay Lab, according to the laboratory's official WeChat account.

来源：长安街知事

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