At the 2022 Tencent medical me conference, five academicians and doctors revealed the latest medical progress in tumor prevention, cervical cancer screening, rheumatic immune disease relief, myocardial infarction first aid, etc.
Academician Wang Chen, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, vice president of the Chinese Academy of engineering, President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and President of the Peking Union Medical College, pointed out that the public can obtain reliable medical knowledge through the Internet, which can not only actively restore, maintain and enhance health based on medical principles; At the same time, it can also strengthen the ability to communicate with medical professionals and promote the formation of a new interpersonal relationship between doctors and patients.
Among them, Wei Wensheng, a professor at the school of life sciences of Peking University, shared a study recently published in the academic journal Cell – “circular RNA vaccine against sars-cov-2 and emerging variants”. This study reported its circular RNA vaccine technology platform. The platform can develop circular RNA vaccine against covid-19 virus and a series of variants. Current experimental data show that compared with linear mRNA vaccine, circular RNA vaccine has higher stability and can produce higher levels and more lasting antigens in vivo. In addition, according to Professor weiwensheng, this platform technology also has a wide application prospect in the prevention or treatment of infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, rare diseases, cancer and other diseases.
Rheumatology and immunology is the discipline with the most diseases in clinic. Li Zhanguo, director of Clinical Immunology Center / rheumatism Immunology Department of Peking University People’s Hospital, shared a number of original research results of his team in this field. Taking systemic lupus erythematosus as an example, Li Zhanguo’s research group first discovered the pathogenesis of the disease – the immune imbalance of cell subsets regulated by IL-2 (a kind of cell growth factor in the immune system, which can regulate the activity of leukocytes in the immune system), resulting in immune cells attacking human organs and tissues. On this basis, the new low-dose IL-2 treatment has been proved to help patients restore immune homeostasis, break the monopoly of hormone and immunosuppressant based treatment, significantly improve the survival benefits of patients, and become the internationally recognized mainstream treatment choice.
Cervical cancer is the only malignant tumor with definite etiology. The progress of HPV vaccination and screening technology makes it possible to eliminate cervical cancer. According to Qiao Youlin, distinguished professor of the school of group medicine and public health of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, with the breakthrough of HPV nucleic acid detection technology, cervical cancer screening has realized the transformation from cell morphology to molecular biology. Based on the latest second-generation hybrid capture technology (HC2), he led his team to initiate CareHPV rapid screening technology. The sensitivity of CareHPV is close to that of HC2. At the same time, it has the advantages of shorter time, higher economic benefit and simple equipment. The study, published in the journal Lancet Oncology, helped prevent and treat cervical cancer.
For acute myocardial infarction, the second leading cause of death in China, Professor Huo Yong of the first hospital of Peking University also shared the latest construction results of the emergency system for the disease. Combined with the characteristics of acute myocardial infarction, he worked with several teams to jointly promote the construction of the national chest pain center system and open up the green channel of pre hospital operation and in-hospital first aid, which can effectively shorten the “total ischemic time” of patients and speed up the rescue. In addition, based on the identified high-risk factors of acute myocardial infarction, patients can also realize the co management of three highs (hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia) through drugs to achieve effective prevention.
In addition, Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent group and CEO of cloud and intelligent industry group, shared his thoughts on the development of medical and health: first, innovative research represented by biomedical engineering will become the core force to promote medical development and improve health level. Second, group health promotes the innovative development of public health, and the integration of medicine, health and health will become the most effective “prescription”. Third, digital technology helps to improve the quality and efficiency of medical treatment and become an indispensable productivity in the development of medicine in addition to talents, drugs and devices.
