2015年11月9日下午，美国Scripps研究所教授Tamas Bartfai博士与我院本科生和研究生进行了座谈。本次交流是“我与大师面对面”系列讲座的第二场活动，由复旦大学药学院院长王明伟主持。院长助理付伟和张雪梅、药化教研室青年教师及各年级学生40余人参会。
古人有云：“知之为知之”。Bartfai博士认为在科研生活中，理解和知道是两回事。他告诫同学不要想当然地忽视“简单”的事，只要关注根本性的问题，即使在最热门的领域也能有所发现。对于药物开发来说，不仅仅要考虑安全问题，更要考虑社会问题。在谈到药物化学的发展前景时，他侃侃而谈，讲到激动之处，更会用丰富的肢体语言进行阐释，极富激情和魅力。最后，Bartfai博士向所有参会的同学赠送他所撰写的两本有关药物发现的著作：《药物发现：从病床到华尔街》和《药物发现的未来：谁来决定治疗哪些疾病》，并亲笔签名。
In the afternoon of November 9, 2015, Dr. Tamas Bartfai (Professor of the Scripps Research Institute, USA) met with several dozens of undergraduate and graduate students at School of Pharmacy, Fudan University. This is the second session of an academic salon series entitled “Face-to-Face with the Master” chaired by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Dean of the school. Drs. Wei Fu (Assistant Dean) and Xue-Mei Zhang (Assistant Dean), young teachers from Department of Medicinal Chemistry and students from all grades totaling around 40 attended this event.
The ancients said “Do not pretend to know what you do not know; know what one really understands”. In the life of scientific research, Dr. Bartfai thinks that knowing and understanding are two different things. He alerted the students that they should not take it for granted to ignore the “simple” thing, as long as focusing on the fundamental questions, even in the most competitive field you may still discover something. For drug development, one should balance safety concern with social issues. In discussing the future prospects of medicinal chemistry, he spoke with excitement accompanied by body languages that express his enthusiasm and passion. In the end, he gave his two books as gifts to all the students who participated in the salon with his signature: 1) Drug Discovery from Bedside to Wall Street; 2) The Future of Drug Discovery: Who Decides Which Diseases to Treat?
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