On July 15, 2019 (June 13, 2019 in the lunar calendar), Hu Hailan won Asia's first International Brain Research Award. On July 15, 2019, Beijing time, the Award Committee of the International Brain Research Organization-IBRO-Kemali Foundation announced that the winner of the 12th IBRO-Kemali International Award was Professor Hu Hailan from the Neuroscience Research Center, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China. According to Zhejiang University, the award aims to recognize scientists under the age of 45 who have made outstanding contributions in basic and clinical neuroscience worldwide, and is selected every two years. The prize is € 25,000 and the winners will be invited to deliver a keynote speech at the largest biennial European Neuroscience Annual Conference in Europe. Hu Hailan is Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Executive Director of Zhejiang University Neuroscience Center. Graduated from Peking University and the University of California at Berkeley, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2008, he returned to China as a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, China Academy of Sciences. Joined Zhejiang University in 2015. She and her team have achieved a series of systematic original results that have both theoretical significance and potential application value in cutting-edge directions in brain science such as the neural coding of emotions, the molecular mechanisms of depression, and the neural basis of social competition. This has brought good news to countless depressed patients! Professor Hu Hailan was interviewed to explain the breakthroughs and significance of the research. In the award basis on the IBRO official website, the award committee described Hu Hailan's contribution as follows: This award is in recognition of Professor Hu Hailan's work on "Basic Mechanisms of Neurobiology of Emotions and Emotional Behavior", a cutting-edge field of brain science, admirable achievements. These achievements are due to her mastery of cutting-edge technologies in systems neuroscience, and she herself is one of the pioneers of these technologies. The news that Hu Hailan won the award quickly became a hot search on Weibo: netizens praised her! Netizens also hope that there will be greater breakthroughs in the research on depression. Hu Hailan was a student student. Born in 1973, she has been a top student since her student days. She is "the best girl in mathematics in the whole grade, softly spoken, calm, beautiful and intelligent." When he arrived in high school, he won the first prize in the National Physics Olympics, and was sent to the Department of Biology of Peking University in advance for his third year of high school. A friend asked her what she would do after graduating from the Department of Biology, and she replied with a smile: "Either study cells for scientific research, or go to a soy sauce factory to make soy sauce." It was not until more than ten years ago, when she was studying for a doctorate in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, that Hu Hailan's scientific research goals began to become clear-to uncover the secrets of emotions and control the "programming" of brain neural circuits. Mastering the "programming" of brain neural circuits neurobiology is the science of studying the brain. In Hu Hailan's view, the brain is one of the most mysterious and complex structures in nature. The 21st century is the century of biology, but also the century of brain science. This field not only has too many challenges, but also too many unknowns. Later, Hu Hailan went to the University of California at Berkeley to study under Dr. Corey Goodman and received a doctorate in neurobiology in 2002. 2003-2004 He conducted postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Julius Zhu at the University of Virginia in 1998 and in the laboratory of Dr. Roberto Malinow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2004 and 2008 respectively. ¡ü Doing RNA extraction experiments in summer classes at Woodshole, Massachusetts. In December 2008, Hu Hailan returned to China to join the Institute of Neuroscience, China Academy of Sciences, serving as the leader of the neural circuit and behavioral plasticity research group and doctoral supervisor. In 2008, he was selected into the "100-Person Plan" of China Academy of Sciences; in 2012, he was awarded the National Outstanding Youth Grant; in 2013, he was evaluated as excellent in the final phase of the 100-Person Plan of China Academy of Sciences and won the Meiji Life Science Excellence Award; in 2012 and 2014, he won the Excellent Tutor Award of China Academy of Sciences twice. Along the way, Hu Hailan and her team have made many breakthroughs on the road of scientific research. What I have to mention is the feat of "one issue and two issues" in Nature in 2018. Young Team "One Issue and Two Issues" On February 15, 2018, Hu Hailan led her team to publish two Research Articles in the famous journal Nature at the same time, which caused a sensation in the industry. The article reveals the mechanism of action of rapid antidepressant molecules, promotes human understanding of the pathogenesis of depression, and provides multiple new molecular targets for the development of new antidepressant drugs, which is considered to "solve a worldwide problem." Depression is one of the most serious mental disorders, with a global incidence of 11%. Sales of antidepressants are worth tens of billions of dollars per year. But even so, traditional antidepressants are slow to take effect. The team started with the rapid antidepressant ketamine, and for the first time revealed in the paper that a special discharge mode in the lateral habenula nucleus-burst discharges is a sufficient condition for the occurrence of depression. The reason why ketamine takes effect is that it effectively prevents this cluster discharges in a brain area and discovered that T-VSCC is a new antidepressant target. In another paper published in Nature at the same time, his team revealed that another rapid antidepressant molecular target-Kir4.1, the potassium channel found in glial cells, is crucial for triggering cluster discharges of neurons. Praise for scientists whose wisdom and temperament coexist!