During the 2015 Queenstown Molecular Biology (Shanghai) Meetings held last week in Zhangjiang, four young scientists received the presentation prizes sponsored by Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TiPS) to the Young Investigators’ Forum. The evaluation committee was consisted of Professor Sunghoon Kim (Chairman, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea), Professor Debbie Hay (The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand), Professor Min Guo (The Scripps Research Institute, Florida, U.S.A.), Professor Kazuya Kikuchi (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan) and Professor Kristian Strømgaard (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark). On March 25, 2015, Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening, delivered 4 award certificates to the four individuals as detailed below.
Linhai Chen (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences): Discovery of a negative allosteric modulator of GABAB receptors

Yan Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University): Discovery of a novel analgesic from Corydalis yanhusuo

 Xiao Luo (The Chinese National Compound Library): The insulinotrophic effect of insulin-like peptide 5 in vitro and in vivo

Shuyong Zhang (The National Center for Drug Screening): Weight-loss herb Hoodia gordonii regulates insulin secretion and food intake via GPR119