{"nodes":[{"node":{"nid":"83601","title":"Biodesign Institute launches partnership with China\u2019s No. 1 biomedical research complex","body":"The world\u2019s problems rarely respect national boundaries. Diseases like autism, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer\u2019s and infections cross populations, territories, genders and ethnicities. Today\u2019s most formidable challenges require multidimensional, multidisciplinary and creative thinking and action.\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222019-09-30T14:36:00-07:00\u0022\u003E09\/30\/2019-2:36pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"A new ASU partnership was launched on Sept. 20, in Chengdu, China, when leaders from ASU and West China Hospital\/West China School of Medicine of Sichuan University inked an agreement that will bring new resources to both institutions, creating the new Biodesign Institute China, West China Hospital.","teaser":"The world\u2019s problems rarely respect national boundaries. Diseases like autism, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer\u2019s and infections cross populations, territories, genders and ethnicities.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/photo_china_9.20.19_1.jpg?itok=ajouZUrv","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20190930-biodesign-institute-launches-partnership-china-biomedical-research-complex","hide_byline":"1","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"","contributor-contact-information-name":"","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","contributor-contact-information-campus":"","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/photo_china_9.20.19_1.jpg?itok=ajouZUrv","image_alt":"","image_caption":"A new partnership was launched on Sept. 20, in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, when leaders (front, from left) Li Weimin, president of West China Hospital, and Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute, inked an agreement that will bring new resources to both institutions. Pictured in the back row, from left: Zou Ling, director of international office, West China Hospital; Chen Xuerong, professor from respiratory and critical care medicine, West China Hospital; Yang Li, director of gastroenterology department, West China Hospital; Guan Ping, international office of Sichuan University, SCU, and former dean at the Confucius Institute, ASU; Wan Xuehong, executive vice president, West China Hospital; Liu Jie, director of laboratory of infection and vaccine, West China Hospital; Wan Meihua, professor, integrated TCM and Western medicine department; Zhang Wengeng, vice director of Research Center for Precision Clinical Medicine, West China Hospital; Zhou Lingyun, lecturer from Infectious Disease Center; and Chen Jie, vice director of Laboratory Medicine Department, West China Hospital. 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President Xie presented LaBaer with a framed giant panda engraving, the national symbol of China and pride of Sichuan province, which is home to its native habitat.","related_story":"","news_units":"Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics|Biodesign China|Biodesign Institute","interests":"Biology|Bioscience|Health care|International|New American University|Life Science|Science|Research","audiences":"Faculty","locations":"Tempe campus|ASU In China","u_n_sustainable_development_goals":"","field_feed_herberger":"","field_feed_nursing":"","field_feed_knowledge_enterprise":"","content_type":"news","field_saf":"Science and technology"}},{"node":{"nid":"65381","title":"ASU\u0027s Chinese partnerships broaden educational understanding","body":"The students quivered as they stood at the front of the classroom, before their peers, speaking out loud about their research projects.\nIt\u2019s a scene that\u2019s repeated a thousand times a day across American schools, but in China this was a dramatic change from the passive way those young people had\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222015-09-09T17:46:00-07:00\u0022\u003E09\/09\/2015-5:46pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"ASU and its many partnerships with Chinese universities are building an understanding of the cultural and educational differences that can sometimes get in the way of providing students the best education. 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