施一公,西湖大学 z-bio 2025-08-13 2988

　　According to the official Weibo of West Lake University, on August 12, nine top mainland universities and institutions including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Xiamen University, Sun Yat-sen University, West Lake University, Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences, jointly initiated a life science open alliance with six top Hong Kong and Macao universities, including the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and the University of Macau. It is led by West Lake University and relying on the newly founded main magazine "Vita" of various units of the alliance, it will build a series of high-level journals in the form of "main journal + sub-blog", with Professor Li Dangsheng, the former editor-in-chief of Cell Research journal, and Shi Yigong himself as editor-in-chief. The main journal of Vita will adopt an open access model, explore new evaluation mechanisms, and strive to become an international top academic journal that conforms to the rules of publishing and purifies the academic ecology.

　　On August 12, the Life Science Open Alliance, jointly initiated by the Mainland and 15 universities and research institutions in Hong Kong, including West Lake University, was officially established in Hong Kong. Fudan University President Jin Li, West Lake University President Shi Yigong, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology President Ye Yuru will lead the first board of directors of the alliance to carry out various work.

　　At the "Roundtable Meeting of the Presidents of the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao University" held on the same day, the main leaders of nine mainland high-level universities and new research institutions including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Xiamen University, Sun Yat-sen University, West Lake University, Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences, and the presidents of six Hong Kong and Macao University, including the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and the University of Macau jointly launched the Life Science Open Alliance.

　　On behalf of the Alliance, President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ye Yuru, published the "Global Openness and Cooperation Initiative for Life Sciences", calling on the life science community around the world to fully respond to UNESCO's open science recommendations, adhere to the openness, cooperation, exchange and coordination of global life science research and innovation, and jointly promote human health and well-being.

　　The Initiative proposes that the Life Science Open Alliance will focus on promoting international cooperation in four aspects in its future operations:

　　First, cooperate to cultivate talents, jointly explore outstanding talents who can protect and promote human future health needs, and strengthen global exchanges between students and scholars in the field of life sciences;

　　The second is to collaborate on key issues and innovation, focus on the ultimate scientific issues and cutting-edge areas in the field of life and health, continue to strengthen global scientific research cooperation and collaborative innovation, and strengthen the transnational innovation network of life sciences;

　　The third is open and sharing of resources, and jointly promote the compliance, openness and global sharing of scientific research literature resources, scientific research facility resources, scientific research data resources and biological sample resources;

　　Fourth, multi-modal promotion of transformation, guided by human health needs, join hands with the global scientific and industrial community to break the barriers of bankruptcy teaching and research, and jointly promote the accelerated transformation of research results, so that more public can enjoy the results and dividends of cutting-edge research in life sciences as soon as possible.

　　The Life Science Open Alliance will rely on Fudan University to establish a secretariat to coordinate the operation of the alliance; rely on the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to set up a Hong Kong representative office to give full play to the advantages of convenient international exchanges in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; the alliance will have several special committees to create a series of high-quality public products that can be easily shared by the global life science community. In the early stage, it will focus on high-level international journals, scientific research data exchange platforms and biological resource libraries.

　　Among them, high-level international journals will be sponsored and published by Higher Education Press and led by West Lake University, and will be built on various units of the alliance. Shi Yigong, convener of the journal construction special committee and president of West Lake University, introduced at the alliance board meeting that the new main journal "Vita", will build a series of high-level journals in the field of life in the form of "main journal + sub-blog", and invite Professor Li Dangsheng, the former editor-in-chief of Cell Research journal, and Shi Yigong himself to serve as editor-in-chief. The main journal of Vita will adopt an open access model, explore new evaluation mechanisms, and strive to run a top international academic journal that conforms to the rules of publishing, purifies academic ecology, serves life science innovation and high-level development of disciplines.

　　At the same time, the Life Science Open Alliance will also actively explore the use of new technologies such as blockchain to empower, prepare to build an academic preprint release platform, record the entire process of scientific research results from submission, review, peer review to formal publication, and simultaneously submit scientific research data to achieve "data first, results can be checked."