Academia Sinica today issued a press release stating that the 9th lecture of the "Taiwan Bridge Project" yesterday invited Professor Kurt Wüthrich, the 2002 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, to deliver a speech titled "The Molecules of Life, AI and Human Health."

During the discussion on the AI wave, Wüthrich pointed out that AI is rapidly changing the research paradigm of structural biology. By using AI models to predict protein structures, results that originally took years of experiments can now be significantly shortened.

In the midst of the AI wave, Wüthrich believes that "human development" is even more critical. People should not limit themselves too early, but should think independently and adapt to the environment. Only by continuously adjusting will they not be left behind by the times.

He believes that the core of university education is to lay a foundation for students that can support their 40 to 50-year career development, not just to impart constantly updated tools, but more importantly, to cultivate the ability to continuously learn and reinvent themselves, in order to stand firm in the volatile 21st century.

Wüthrich also shared in his lecture the technological breakthroughs of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in analyzing biomolecular structures and its application in precision medicine, helping scientists more efficiently identify potential candidate molecules and accelerate the initial screening process of drug development.

Academia Sinica stated that the "Taiwan Bridge Project" is jointly promoted by Academia Sinica, 11 domestic academic and research institutions, and the World Peace Foundation, dedicated to promoting in-depth exchanges between Taiwan and top global scholars. Since November last year, more than 10 Nobel laureates, spanning fields such as peace, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, and literature, have been invited over a year to continuously deepen international academic cooperation and expand the horizons of frontier research. (Edited by Huang Mingxi) 1150408

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  • Source: CNA (Central News Agency)
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