James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, Zhejiang University

James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences , is a research institute of . It's located in , Zhejiang Province, and belongs to Zhejiang University in the People's Republic of China.

Introduction

The institute was named after the DNA structure co-discoverer Dr. James D. Watson. The institute was founded on October 6, 2003, when Jame D. Watson visited China, and it was also in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the great discovery. Dr. Watson also wrote the title for the institute.

The institute was consulted from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where Dr. Watson was the president. It's located in the Zhijiang Campus, Zhejiang University, close to the Qiantang River and has a very beautiful landscape.

The institute mainly offers , currently there're about 80 and PhD candidates. At present, the scientist Yang Huangming is the acting director of the institute.