Home07 October 2005
Professor Nick Lemoine has been awarded this year's Yellow River Friendship Prize by the Chinese government in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the wealth and social wellbeing of the people of Henan Province". The Prize is the highest honour to be bestowed on a foreigner and this award comes as a result of the work of the Sino-British Centre for Molecular Oncology, founded through a collaboration between Queen Mary University of London and Zhengzhou University in Henan Province, China in 2006. The Centre is developing viruses to treat cancer, and is funded through grants from the National Science Foundation and the government of Henan Province. Cancer is an increasing problem in China as well as the rest of the world, and an exchange programme has been established to train Chinese scientists in cutting-edge molecular oncology technology. The work is progressing through preclinical validation studies before clinical trials at Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry and in Chinese centres.
