This year, seven young Chinese scientists nominated by the HHMI "International Youth Scientist Award" are Chen Lingling, a researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Guohong and Wang Yanli, two researchers at the Institute of biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liu Ying, a research of the Peking University, Qi Hai, a professor of Tsinghua University and Jie Wei, a researcher of the Institute of ancient spine of Chinese academy of sciences.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), founded in 1953, is one of the largest non-profit private medical research institutions in the world. Up till now, there are 17 Nobel laureates working in the agency, representing the level of life science research and related fields in the US.