Dr. J. Michael Bishop, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989, and Dr. Elizabeth F. Neufeld who won the American National Medal of Science in 1982 visited Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) on May 28. Their visit was warmly welcomed by Dr. Chen Jin, director of XTBG.
Looking around the living collections, museum, and new research center, the medical scientists gave positive comments on the development of XTBG.
Dr. J. Michael Bishop is a joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989. (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 was awarded jointly to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes").
Dr. J. Michael Bishop
Elizabeth F. Neufeld (born 1928) is best known as an authority on human genetic diseases . Her research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), provided new insights into mucopolysaccharide storage disorders (the absence of certain enzymes preventing the body from properly storing certain substances). Dr. Elizabeth F. Neufeld won the National Medal of Science (1994) for her work investigating the cause, consequences and treatment of human genetic diseases due to deficiency of lysosomal enzymes. Her current research focuses on the Sanfilippo syndrome type B, and exploring ways to get therapeutice enzymes or genes across the blood-brain barrier.
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
