Qiao Jie won the "UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Research Award"

UNESCO At 18:30 on April 23, 2024, the United Nations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Africa The UNECA conference center held an award ceremony to award Chinese scientists Qiao Jie The 8th UNESCO- Equatorial Guinea The UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences recognizes its pioneering contributions in the field of life science, especially the pioneering construction of the world's first high-precision whole genome sequencing map of human female eggs.

Qu Xing, Deputy Director General of UNESCO, Monique Ensanzabaganwa, Vice President of the African Union, Ayeli Rige, Ambassador of Ethiopia to the African Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Clement Ngonga Nguema Nguemene, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, attended the award ceremony and delivered speeches in turn, It reviewed and emphasized the important positive significance of the award for accelerating scientific progress in Africa and other regions of the world.

The award ceremony was held at the conference center of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

UNESCO said in its official website announcement that as an expert in reproductive medicine, Qiao Jie has developed human understanding of reproductive physiology and the mechanism behind infertility. She led the team to reveal a series of black boxes in the regulation of human gamete and early embryo development at multiple levels, and has continued to explore the causes of infertility and clinical diagnosis and treatment for many years, especially found the key role of intestinal microbes in female reproductive disorders.

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In addition, Qiao Jie has made a series of theoretical and technical breakthroughs in the protection and preservation of female fertility and the development of new methods of preimplantation embryo genetic diagnosis, which has pushed precision medicine into the field of reproductive health. In addition, she is also committed to sharing and exchanging experiences with countries around the world, especially developing countries, establishing shared databases, promoting cutting-edge technologies, and making outstanding contributions to human health and reproductive well-being.

Qu Xing, Deputy Director General of UNESCO, and Clement Ngonga Nguema Ongwyne, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, respectively awarded Qiao Jie a certificate of award and a trophy.

When delivering his acceptance speech, Qiao Jie said that he was lucky to live in an era of rapid technological development. The construction of interdisciplinary knowledge and cutting-edge technology support platform enables him, as a clinician in the field of reproductive medicine, not only to help patients directly, but also to deeply study the mechanism, explain the mysteries of life, and share with scientists around the world. This is a matter of special pride. Qiao Jie also thanked his colleagues, students and family members from Peking University for their support and help. He also thanked UNESCO, the award-winning organizations and the evaluation expert group for their great recognition of the achievements he has made in the past 37 years of working in reproductive medicine. In the future, he will lead his team to continue to devote themselves to scientific research and innovation to provide better medical services for patients Make greater contributions to human health.

Award certificates and trophies

Qiao Jie and other three winners in 2024 took a group photo with Qu Xing, Deputy Director General of UNESCO (second from right), and Clement Ngonga Nguema Onguine, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (fourth from right)

Qiao Jie took a group photo with Qu Xing, Deputy Director General of UNESCO (fourth from the right), Ambassador Hu Changchun, Head of the Mission to the African Union (fifth from the right), and political representatives of relevant countries, representatives of the United Nations and UNESCO, representatives of the African Union Commission and other winners of this year

Qiao Jie participated in the round table meeting of the 10th African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development as the main speaker

After the award ceremony, the 10th African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development roundtable was held, with the theme of "Opening up scientific progress in the field of life medicine: the impact of the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Life Science Research on the transformation of life medicine research in Africa".

Qiao Jie and three other winners in 2024 and two previous winners jointly discussed the key areas of future life science research and innovation, cross disciplinary cooperative research issues in life science, as well as policy support, funding mechanism and ethical considerations. The meeting was chaired by Professor Wagida Anwar, Chairman of the Evaluation Committee of Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Research Award. Qiao Jie shared and emphasized the importance of scientific and technological development in the field of life medicine and the standardized use of technology at the round table.

As an important part of the 10th African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, the award ceremony and round table of the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Research Awards are an important exchange platform to fully listen to experts from all over the world on how life science research can improve human life and well-being. As the only representative of Chinese scientists, Qiao Jie, from the perspective of scientific research, teaching, medical treatment and other fields, made great efforts to show China's attention to the field of life medicine science and representative achievements in some fields in the exchange process with international scholars, and clearly expressed the positive attitude of in-depth exchanges, mutual benefit and win-win results with Africa and other regions of the world, It fully demonstrates the general pattern of Chinese scientists building a community for the healthy development of human life with the innovation of life medicine science and technology as the link.

The UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Research Award was established in 2008 to award outstanding life science research that has made important contributions to improving the quality of human life. The research subjects can be individuals or institutions. The award is funded by the government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. So far, 25 individuals/institutions have won the award. This year, in addition to Qiao Jie, the other two winners are Professor Faraj from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Cairo University, Egypt, and Professor Stilianopoulos, a Greek from the University of Cyprus. They won prizes for their contributions to metabonomics research and cancer treatment respectively. Chinese scientists Tu Youyou and Shi Yigong have won the award.