Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"Director Mei, Chief Tie, come here, sit down and have a drink of tea." Yang Rui turned a corner of the large warehouse into an office area, and set up a set of old tables, chairs and benches to entertain guests.

The guests in the laboratory are naturally the donors.

With Yang Rui's previous style, he was unwilling to waste time entertaining investors. How troublesome it is to welcome and send them... However, it is really easy for the genetic engineering laboratory to raise funds, but it is so easy for Yang Rui at this time. Gained interest in relaxing tea.

Furthermore, the more funds raised, the more efficient the lab is. It’s the same experiment, your centrifuge spins faster than others, your PCR is more convenient than others, don’t you want to save time? If more skilled experimenters can be hired, the progress of the experiment will be more guaranteed. And these all depend on a huge amount of funds.

The laboratory is not a company with regular income, and funds are raised in bursts. The funds raised should not only consider short-term expenses, but also long-term expenses. Funds are needed to dare to update equipment and increase manpower.

Otherwise, once the funding chain is broken and the laboratory is facing life and death, the most uncomfortable event of cutting projects will inevitably occur.

Even in the 21st century, there are still only a handful of laboratories that dare to invest in scientific research in units of one billion. It doesn’t mean that if you receive 1 billion yuan this year, you can do billion-level scientific research. In reality, the bigger the investment, the longer it will take. Not to mention projects like the Human Genome Project, which are cloning For the Yang project, the scientific research time can be counted as ten years, if there is a slight obstacle, it has not run for 20 years.

For such a long time, I can’t even guarantee that I received 1 billion yuan this year, and I will start a project of 100 million yuan this year, which will last for ten years-the long-term global inflation will make the fifth year’s funds The demand has risen to 140 million yuan. By the eighth year, the original cost of 100 million U.S. dollars will become 170 million U.S. dollars. This is equivalent to reducing the cost by half in disguise. If there is no preparation in advance, the 10-year project will die in the eighth year. Not wronged.

Yang Rui needs to make preparations for the genetic engineering laboratory in advance.

First of all, he knows very little information about genetic engineering, and secondly, he has little time and energy to invest. In this way, if the genetic engineering laboratory is to survive 10 or 20 years later, he needs Additional resources are reserved for genetic engineering laboratories.

To be fair, genetic engineering laboratories need to reserve more resources than ion channel laboratories.

Because the ion channel laboratory has Yang Rui's long-term management and intervention, the ability to use resources and transform resources is stronger.

Some people may say, who can control what will happen 20 years later...

It is a pity that this is the systematic risk of scientific research. If a laboratory does not have an expected life span of 20 years, it has no value at all.

Among other things, it takes ten or twenty years for a laboratory to be upgraded to be qualified to recruit doctoral students or postdoctoral students, and this just shows that this laboratory is at the forefront of related fields, or The frontiers of related fields in the third world.

And to train a doctoral student, at least three years, as long as six or seven years, 20 years, but only seven generations of doctoral students, the total number of students will not exceed 20.

In other words, if it is self-produced and sold, it took this laboratory 20 years, but it has just touched the edge of a first-class laboratory.

If Yang Rui creates a laboratory that can't reach the level of a first-class laboratory, why should he waste time, and simply use his time and resources to play in the entertainment industry.

Anyway, the social value that a second-rate experimenter in a second-rate laboratory can generate is similar to that of a starlet.

Funders are actually a kind of resource.

From the perspective of laboratory managers, those who are willing to donate now should also have a tendency to donate in the future.

Especially large state-owned groups such as China Animal Husbandry and Qingmu,

They invest millions of dollars in their own laboratories every year, including labor expenses and infrastructure costs, and there are tens of millions a year.

With so much money, compared to the results they produce, it is really not as good as buying. Its nature is the same as that of state-owned enterprises' own kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools-will the quality of teaching be better? not necessarily. But the cost is several times higher than that, and its core is nothing more than a word of convenience.

When state-owned enterprises are responsible for their own profits and losses and survival is not easy, state-owned enterprises will be less able to bear this kind of "convenience", or this kind of willfulness. If Yang Rui's genetic engineering laboratory can seize the opportunity, it will be able to save a lot Great resources.

And "earning foreign exchange bull" is a very good opportunity.

This kind of concept is not something you can have if you want to, especially if it is limited to the field of genetic engineering, there are really not many projects that can make money.

Projects such as cloning Dolly the sheep sound like applications, but they are actually basic research. It is difficult to find commercial organizations to donate to them. In fact, when the British cloned Dolly the sheep, they kept it secret. It was not announced until after the success. The response of the British government was also very fast, and the laboratory's funding was immediately reduced.

Yes, it is a reduction rather than an increase, because the politicians’ fear of human cloning is magnified relative to the fear of ordinary people. In order to prevent the laboratory from going further, the reduction of funding was passed almost without any reaction.

From a scientist's point of view, this is simply meaningless stupidity, and this situation has actually occurred more than once in scientific research laboratories.

If the project is poorly done, reduce the funds; if the project is not as good as expected, reduce the funds; if the project is not as good as the politicians expected, reduce the funds; if the project is good enough, reduce the funds; if the project is particularly good, reduce the funds ...and the reduction of substitutions, the reduction of changes in the world, the reduction of economic crisis,...

All in all, it is not easy for laboratories to find a stable source of funding, and it is unreliable to rely solely on the government or a certain donor.

Yang Rui pretended to be pouring tea, but what he was thinking about was how to pour cyanide into the gold mine.

Director Mei and Director Tie are still facing each other indifferently, no matter how you look at it, they don't look like friends who haven't seen each other for many years.

Fortunately, everyone is a scene person. After half a minute of embarrassment, the new director Qu laughed and said: "Director Yang, I came here today to try your lunch. I heard that Your buffet is better than the Roman restaurant in Wudaokou."

"It was made by a chef invited from the Roman restaurant." Yang Rui smiled and said, "Good vision."

The Roman restaurant he was talking about was the buffet joint venture between Yang Rui and Shi Gui, located above Yang Rui's bowling alley in Wudaokou. Yang Rui needs two or three chefs to help, so it's not a problem.

Now, the genetic engineering laboratory, which has its own funds, has been completely separated from the ion channel laboratory of Peking University. It is too late to recruit chefs, so it is better to invite foreign aid.

Field Chief Qu raised his thumb and said again: "I guess it will cost a lot of money."

"It's quite expensive. Our researcher's daily food standard is tentatively set at 3 yuan, not counting the cost of staple food." Yang Rui didn't intend to hide it. When he recruited researchers, he used this to attract people. Interested People who want to ask can always ask.

Director Qu took a deep breath and said, "If you eat 3 yuan a day, don't you have to eat 90 yuan a month?"

"There are more than 4 days of vacation in a month." It is still a six-day work week, and people all over the country are like this.

"That still costs more than 70 yuan." Qu Yuan looked around and said, "With such a small scale, we need to eat 300 to 400 yuan a month, not counting the chef and other expenses."

"It doesn't count."

"The food is much better than ours." Director Qu said, raised his hand, and said with a smile, "I don't mean anything else, just a sigh."

Yang Rui nodded with a smile, glanced to the right, and said, "Director Mei actually had the same problem as you before."

"En? Really?" Director Qu gave Director Mei a gentle look, as if he had found the Allies.

Director Mei was in a bad mood, and his tone was also cold: "That's right, when I said that to Yang Rui last time, I forgot what Director Yang said to me. , you can give money if you like it, if you don’t like it, I’m not willing to take it. Director Yang, is that what you mean?”

Director Qu's expression changed drastically, and he also looked at Yang Rui.

"That's not what I said." Yang Rui was speechless.

"Last time I asked about the progress of the experiment, and the answer was almost the same." Director Tie added, this time standing on the same side as Director Mei.

Director Qu looked at Yang Rui again.

Yang Rui shrugged: "They got it wrong."

"What does that mean?" Director Tie hurriedly asked.

"Our laboratory is very happy to receive a donation, but we are not obliged to provide information, let alone accept any request or control from the donor." Yang Rui sorted out his language and answered in this way.

"It's okay to give money, but no nonsense." Director Mei suddenly looked at Director Qu gloating a little, and said, "You didn't know when you gave the money, did you?"

"I know." Director Qu's face was a little green, and he said, "However, I just said that the laboratory should save a little in some places. That's right."

"You can't say that." Director Tie sighed, pointed at himself, then pointed at Director Mei, and said, "We represent Qingmu and Zhongmu, and we invested a total of 1.6 million. Tell me, are we qualified to say it? "

Seeing that Director Qu was a sign of losing his temper, Yang Rui quickly interjected: "We still pay attention to listening to everyone's opinions and suggestions..."

"It's just never implemented." Director Mei suddenly wanted to laugh.

Director Tie directly laughed out loud.

"You guys." Qu Chang stood up angrily, if Yang Rui and Director Tie were not both in good shape, he would have made a move immediately.

"What are you guys talking about? You chatted so happily." Another two people came in from outside the warehouse, stomping their feet as they walked: "This capital city is an evil gate. It's still warm in the city. Once outside the city, It's too cold."

"Bai Chu, Chairman Qiu." Yang Rui greeted, these two were also the benefactors who gave the money two days ago.

The two exchanged greetings with a smile, rubbed their hands together, and said, "Stop sticking around, you guys talk about your stuff, we'll follow behind."

"We're talking about eating. The laboratory buffet is pretty good, I heard." Director Qu's face changed quickly, and the unhappiness just now could no longer be seen.

Upon hearing what they said, Director Bai immediately remembered the recent legend, and asked, "I heard that the buffet in the genetic engineering laboratory is of a high standard?"

"That's right." Field Chief Qu nodded.

"How much does it cost this month?" Director Bai asked curiously.

Director Qu deliberately said: "It's only a few hundred yuan."

"A few hundred yuan is not a lot."

"You don't care if you are less or less." Director Qu changed his face again, and he was serious.

Director Bai was taken aback by what he said, and said, "I don't care?"

"Director Yang's rules, you give money as you like, don't care if you give money or not, you have no right to chatter." Director Qu suddenly felt a sense of revenge. After saying this, the whole person's mood All comfortable.

... (To be continued.)