The banquet after the ceremony was even more lavish and lively. Tang Shun and Song Zimo were surrounded by waves of celebrity scholars, with congratulations, questions, and collaboration proposals following one after another.
"Did your Professor Yang really not come to receive the award just because of a case?" an academician from the Royal Society of the United Kingdom asked incredulously.
"To him, the treatment window for that nine-year-old boy is more important than any ceremony," Song Zimo answered.
The academician was silent for a moment, then raised his glass: "This may be the most scarce scientific spirit of our time. A toast!"
Halfway through the banquet, a well-dressed middle-aged man quietly approached. He introduced himself as the Vice President of Research and Development for a leading European pharmaceutical company and offered his business card.
