Chinanews.com, Lanzhou, October 29 (Gao Kangdi) "On the day when the vaccine was successfully developed, some people jumped up and cheered, and some hid their faces and wept..." On the 28th, Ms. Gu Xiaoman, a member of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Scientists' Spiritual Report Group Recalling his father Gu Fangzhou's "lifetime event" (developing a polio vaccine).
Since its establishment in 2018, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Scientists’ Spirit Report Group has invited future generations of scientists to talk about the growth and development of their predecessors, aiming to promote the spirit of scientists into the campus and pass on the spirit of scientists.
Sponsored by the Science and Technology Communication Center of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, the 20th batch of doctoral service groups to Gansu selected by the Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The first report meeting of the Lanzhou trip event will be held at Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics. The members of the Lanzhou trip report team will go to Lanzhou University, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, Northwest Normal University and other universities to hold lectures on the 28th and 29th.
On the afternoon of October 28, the first report of the "Inheritance 2020" Lanzhou trip event was opened at Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics.
Photo by Gao Kangdi
Gu Fangzhou is a well-known Chinese medical scientist, virology expert, and the former dean of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. His research on the prevention and control of polio (poliomyelitis) for 42 years is called "Chinese Spinal Cord". Father of "Poliomyelitis vaccine".
Gu Xiaoman recalled that his father was sent to study in the Soviet Union when he was 24 years old. In 1955, polio broke out in the United States and southern China, and a kind of "backpackers" (carrying children with their luggage on their backs) Hospital, treating parents with polio). At that time, domestic knowledge of the virus was almost zero. When they heard that their children had no hope of recovery, some people would cry on the hospital chair all night.
This scene touched Gu Fangzhou, "Preventing polio is imminent."
In 1957, Gu Fangzhou and his team started vaccine research and development. The process was very boring, and it was a repeated process.
Sometimes Gu Fangzhou and his colleagues could fall asleep by shaking the test tube. What supported them to bring up their spirits was a sentence on the wall of the laboratory: Flowers for the motherland.
After a year, Gu Fangzhou and his team trained and isolated poliovirus, passed the first hurdle of independent research and development of vaccines, and went to the Soviet Union for inspection. Although the trip did not obtain substantive technology, it was clear that Gu Fangzhou's research and development. “Live vaccine” is determined to ensure the safety of the vaccine and sum up the experience from the failure of two animal experiments. For the third time, Gu Fangzhou and his colleagues drank the vaccine. In order to let the experiment continue, Gu Fangzhou let his 1-year-old son Take the vaccine, "I don't give it to my own children, it's too unjust to let other people's children eat it." This vaccine clinical trial was successful, and the domestic vaccine was proven safe.
In 1962, because the liquid vaccine was inconvenient to transport and store, Gu Fangzhou improved the vaccine technology by wrapping the liquid vaccine with milk powder and sugar to make sugar pills.
The sugar pill has become "the sweetest childhood memory of childhood" for generations.
On July 11, 2000, 74-year-old Gu Fangzhou signed the name on the report at the "Signing Ceremony of China's Poliomyelitis Eradication Confirmation Report", "I have made this little candy pill in my entire life." .
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