Vol 2 Chapter 606: It belongs to the world

Amidst a burst of warm applause, the brief report came to an end.
But Tu Youyou didn't mean to leave at all. She helped the microphone and said to everyone in the audience: "Professors, please wait a moment."
"Next there will be a press conference where I will announce all the experimental data and the results of the experiment."
While talking, Tu Youyou waved to the assistant beside him, and the assistant turned and left.
When she reappeared, dozens of media reporters were already behind him.
They had microphones in their hands and cameras on their shoulders, and the lens was directed at Professor Tu on the podium.
The shutter keeps beating like raindrops.
At this moment, the audience was silent, everyone was stunned, looking at Tu Youyou blankly.
She actually wants to announce the results of the experiment to the world? This is incredible.
All of you here are the big cows in academia, and they all know any rules of academia.
You can publish all the theoretical results at the report meeting, but you cannot disclose it to the media.
I think that once the academic conclusions are made public in the face of the media, it means giving up academic results.
Tu Youyou and his team will not be able to apply for the patent rights for dihydroartemisinin.
This is not just a loss of millions, but a loss of hundreds of millions, billions, and even tens of billions!
Thinking of this, the professors suddenly couldn't calm down.
"Professor, before making it public, I would like to ask, have you applied for a patent?" asked a professor from the Department of Life Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Yes, Professor Tu, we do not object to your disclosure, but before you publicly apologize, please be sure to submit a patent application."
"Artemisinin is our treasure of China..."
"..."
For a while, everyone discouraged.
It's not that they are making a fuss or having a small belly, but that artemisinin is too important. It involves tens of billions of patent usage costs, and they can't be distracted.
Of course, Qin Luo was the same as everyone thought. After all, that was tens of billions of expenses, which was not a small sum.
It's better to keep it in your own pocket than to benefit foreign pharmaceutical companies.
But some people think this way, it doesn't mean everyone thinks that way.
Tu Youyou nodded and thanked everyone for their kind reminders, and then said: "I understand your kindness, but the purpose of my press conference today is very simple."
"I am going to make the patent public."
Qin Luo:? ? ?
Everyone:...
Media reporter: Kawi, Kawi.
"Professor Tu, we want to know the reason." Someone in the crowd asked.
Give up tens of billions of wealth, this thing is simply incredible!
"The reason is very simple. The reason why I have devoted my whole life to the research and development of artemisinin has never thought about how much money I will use it to earn, how much honor and praise I get, and my only purpose is to save people!" Professor Tu said slowly. : "If you hold patents in your hands and charge patent fees, you can indeed earn a lot of wealth, but in order to earn back the patent fees, various pharmaceutical companies will directly transfer the patent fees to artemisinin."
"The rich can naturally use artemisinin, but what about the poor?"
"Have you ever thought about what is the population of malaria? How many rich people are among them. Once I patent artemisinin, how many people will be under the devil of malaria?"