Each person in the dormitory had their own concerns.
Fan Lei winning a ten thousand dollar award made a big wave in the dormitory, but was negligible in the context of the laboratory and the research institute.
In comparison to the significant Vif gene research project under the AIDS research scope, the ten thousand dollar award seems irrelevant. The decision of the research institute to reward Fan Lei was simply due to his affiliation with Zhao Yi's lab, not because Fan Lei had made any substantial contributions; him winning the amount was just a windfall.
Zhao Yi was indifferent to the matter. Upon hearing that the institute had awarded Fan Lei with the cash prize, he simply smiled, not paying it much heed.
He had his hands full with his own agenda, which was unrelated to the lab's primary project.