In 2023, the "Top Ten Advances in China's Life Sciences" began to be recommended

First, the recommended project should meet the conditions

1. The recommended project should be innovative or advanced, have great academic value or application prospects, and have significant influence at home and abroad, and specifically meet one of the following two conditions:

(1) Knowledge innovation: mainly basic research projects, which have made important discoveries in the exploration of life science phenomena, and which are first proposed at home and abroad or whose theories are first expounded at home and abroad; The discovery has a breakthrough in scientific theory or theory, or an original innovation in research methods, and has great scientific value and has been recognized by the life science community at home and abroad.

(2) Technological innovation: including applied research and clinical research projects, projects involving life science or clinical medicine in the field of technology ideas, principles and methods have innovation, technology has substantial characteristics and significant advancement, comprehensive superior to similar technologies, has the potential to solve the current or future constraints of the national economy, social development and people's health and other key technical problems; Or has formed with independent intellectual property rights of innovative technologies, processes, materials, products, biological varieties, etc., is expected to produce significant economic and social benefits.

2. The time range for the production of landmark achievements (such as papers, patents, awards, etc.) in the recommended project should be from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023;

3. The main work in the recommended project should be completed in China or mainly in China.

2. Recommended procedures and specific requirements

1. Each society shall be responsible for recommending major scientific research and technological innovation achievements in the field, and in principle, the total number of knowledge innovation and technological innovation projects recommended by each society shall not exceed 6;

2. In principle, project recommendation is only through the society's channels. Each society shall carry out recommendation work on the basis of extensively soliciting the opinions of directors, branches, member units, etc., and be responsible for the authenticity of the declared project, the ranking of the main completion of the project and other information. The recommended project shall be publicized on the society's website with a publicity period of not less than 5 working days;

3. It is recommended that the name of the application project be as close as possible to the published paper or the authorized patent, etc. Please avoid using words that are difficult to verify such as "the first in the world or the world", "the first in China or the country", "subversive", "revolutionary", "the first" and "the only".

4. Fill in the recommendation materials -- Recommendation Form of "Top Ten Progress in China's Life Sciences in 2023" (see Annex 1), Commitment Letter of "Top Ten Progress in China's Life Sciences in 2023" (see Annex 2), Approval Form of "Top Ten Progress in China's Life Sciences in 2023" (see Annex 3), After completion, the electronic version of Annex 1, the scanned version of Annex 2 after signature and the scanned version of Annex 3 after seal and signature should be sent to the Secretariat of Life Science Association of China Association for Science and Technology via email: secretariat@culss.org.cn;

5. Recommendation deadline: December 1, 2023;

6. The consortium will announce the final selection results to the public.

7. After the application project is selected, the main person in charge of the project shall actively participate in the annual "China Life Science Ten Progress Exchange Conference and science Popularization Report Conference" organized by the consortium and the compilation of science popularization books and other activities.