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Chemical biology in China takes on signal transduction

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Funding support for chemical biology is essential for its growth around the world. A new funding initiative from the National Natural Science Foundation of China provides a model of a targeted funding program in the area of signal transduction.

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Figure 2: NSFC budget distribution for health sciences, 2004–2008.
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Figure 4: Major types of signaling transductions in cells.

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  1. Hualiang Jiang is in the Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zu Chong Zhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China hljiang@mail.schcnc.ac.cn,

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  2. Jiarui Wu is in the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 218 Yueyang Road, Shanghai 200031, China,

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  3. Lihe Zhang is in the State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, 38 Xue Yuan Road, Beijing 100083, China,

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  4. Wenping Liang, Feixue Gao, Xuelian Feng, Canping Du and Yongjun Chen are in the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 83 Shuang Qing Road, Beijing 100085,China. chenyj@mail.nsfc.gov.cn,

    Wenping Liang, Feixue Gao, Canping Du, Xuelian Feng & Yongjun Chen

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