By Li Han
Staff writer of the Tsinghua News Center
The Sino-UK Symposium on Developmental Biology and Human Diseases opened in Tsinghua May 6.
The Symposium, which ran through May 8, was hosted by the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology in Tsinghua.
Members of the Royal Society in UK, including Professor Philip W. Ingham from the University of Sheffield, Professor James C. Smith and Professor Michael E.Akam from Cambridge University, Professor David Ish-Horowicz from Cancer Research UK, and Professor Peter W. H. Holalnd from Oxford University attended the symposium.
Also attending the symposium were Professor Meng Anming from Tsinghua University, Professor Zhang Yongqing from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Zhang Bo from Peking University.
Experts from both China and UK discussed and gave reports on developmental biology and human diseases at a meeting held on May 8. About 150 researchers and students from universities and research institutes in Beijing attended the event that day.