On the afternoon of November 24, 2008, the 11th Interdisciplinary Lecture of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry was held in the library lecture hall of the Institute. This lecture was presided over by Academician Lin Guoqiang, the director of Academic Committee of the Institute and the specially-invited lecturer was Academician Wang Kui at the Department of Medicine of Peking University, who gave a lecture titled “Chemical Foundation of Biological Effect of Rare Earth —— Exploit Bioinorganic Chemistry at Cell’s Level”. Parts of researchers and more than one hundred staff and students attended the lecture.
Firstly, Academician Lin Guoqiang thanked Academician Wang Kui for his lecture in the Institute upon invitation, introduced the experience of Academician Wang Kui briefly and issued the certificate of interdisciplinary lecture of the Institute to him. Academician Wang Kui is one of the antecessors of bioinorganic chemistry research and one of the pioneers of cell inorganic chemistry in China. His research group researches the chemical foundation of biological effect of inorganic substances at cell’s level, tracks the chemical matters occurred during the process of cell response and researches their relationship with the process of pathology and toxicology, thus illuminates the mechanism of intervening life process by inorganic substance and researches inorganic drugs.
Academician Wang Kui talked from the debate background about the safety of agricultural use of rare earth and introduced the development of cell bioinorganic chemistry to us. Firstly, he introduced the basic concept of cell inorganic chemistry research briefly and introduced the problems and disputes related to medicinal use and safety of rare earth from the aspect of the dispute about whether rare earth element Gd is related to NSF and whether Ce is related to EMF as well as the safety of lanthanum carbonate in the 21st century, then He introduced the absorption, transfer, distribution and accumulation of rare earth in organism, chemical species of rare earth, how does rare earth promote the proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of cell, etc.
After the lecture, Academician Wang Kui answered the questions that we were interested.
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