On February 17, at the invitation of Prof. Zhao Hongyu, Ted Trimble led an NCI delegation to visit the National Facility for Translational Medicine (Shanghai) under construction at SJTU and to discuss cooperation affairs.

During the exchange meeting, Sun Jielin, Deputy Director of Translational Medicine Office, reported on the general situation and achievements of the National Facility for Translational Medicine (Shanghai) to the NCI experts from the aspects of interdisciplinary research, translational medicine technology platform, national facility operation planning, and international cooperation. Ted Trimble, Director of the Center for Global Health (CGH) of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), then gave a presentation entitled “Partnership in Cancer Research”, introducing the advantages and priorities of NCI’s global cooperation, and illustrating NCI’s cooperation projects in China in terms of training and capacity building, bilateral large-scale activities. Lyu Hui, Director of SJTU-Yale Joint Center, also introduced the operation of SJTU-Yale Joint Center as a collaborative research platform since its establishment in 2014 and the current international research collaboration projects in which the Center is involved. The two sides then had in-depth discussions on key issues, laying the foundation for their follow-up research cooperation.