A committee of twelve internationally renowned scientists carried out the first quinquennial review (QQR) on the development and progress of the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) from 15th-18th November 2019.The committee was warmly welcomed by University Council Chairman Li Ruxin. Vice President and Provost Yin Jie introduced the brief history of ShanghaiTech University since its estab...

In November, SIAIS Professor Katsuhiko Mikoshiba and Research Associate Professor Kozo Hamada of Cell Calcium Signaling laboratory published a review paper entitled ‘IP3 Receptor Plasticity Underlying Diverse Functions’ in Annual Review of Physiology. The paper reviews recent progress on the IP3 receptor structure and function, and the authors propose a new concept of how protein plast...

On November 28 2019, a delegation led by University of Waterloo President Hamdullahpur visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. Other delegates from University of Waterloo included Ian Rowlands, Associate Vice-President, International; Troy Glover, Professor and Chair, Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences; Zhongchao Tan, Associate De...

ShanghaiTech’s newest institute is the most international of the university’s schools and institutes. While the university boasts 17% international faculty overall, almost 50% of the faculty of the Institute of Mathematics come from outside of China. This is a real boon for IMS Founding Director Chen Xiuxiong, who has worked very hard to bring in the highest caliber of faculty to the fledgi...

On November 10-14th, the 2019 ShanghaiTech BioForum was successfully held at ShanghaiTech University. For the first time, the BioForum was jointly organized by the three life science institutions of ShanghaiTech University - School of Life Science and Technology (SLST), Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) and iHuman Institute (iHuman), which compose the “ShanghaiTech Li...

On November 22-23, ShanghaiTech University invited an international evaluation team of eight people composed of distinguished experts and scholars in the field of information science and technology to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of SIST’s development and construction. On the afternoon of the 23rd, the evaluation team gave their overall assessment to President Jiang Mianheng, Chairman of th...

A ShanghaiTech delegation recently headed by President Jiang Mianheng traveled to Japan to visit companies and institutions, including Keio University, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science jointly founded by Tokyo Women’s Medical University and Waseda University, Kyushu University, Osaka University, Kyoto University, ...

IMS Founding Director Xiuxiong Chen has been honored with the rank of Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York Board of Trustees in November.   The honor caps off an extraordinary year for Professor Chen. He received the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry by the American Mathematical Society in January, together with Simon Donaldson and Song Sun, for their resolution of a...

A tumor immunogenicity score (TIGS), a novel cancer immunotherapy biomarker, was proposed by a research team from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) led by Assistant Professor Liu Xuesong. The study describing TIGS was published online in the journal eLife on November 26th. This tumor immunogenicity-based biomarker could guide the treatment to transform some immunotherapy non-re...

A study published in Genome Biology systematically compares a panel of BEs for the first time and BEable-GPS is the first database to profile the accessibility of BEs to target pathogenic SNVs. BEable-GPS and its embedded toolsets will provide researchers a great resource for their experimental designs to model or correct disease-related mutations.This study results from a collaboration between tw...

Since society began to industrialize, the interaction between economic growth and inequality has raised challenging questions. In the past few decades, inequality has been rising in almost all parts of the globe. Does economic development inevitably lead to inequality? A study by SEM Assistant Professor Yang Xiyi and her coauthors found that China’s industrial clustering can simultaneously promot...

From November 11th to 13th, ShanghaiTech University invited Philadelphia Orchestra and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra to carry out a three-day event to bring orchestra music onto campus. Leaders, guests and artists from the two world-renowned orchestras had a comprehensive dialogue with teachers and students from ShanghaiTech. Not only did they present an elegant chamber music concert, but had lo...

Research teams led by Professor Sun Bo from SLST and Professor Shen Bin from Nanjing Medical University have completed a high-resolution quantitative map of Cas9/sgRNA/DNA interactions (Figure 1). On November 13, 2019, their study was published as a research article entitled, “The post-PAM interaction of RNA-guided spCas9 with DNA dictates its target binding and dissociation,"  in the j...

On October 30th, a group of 6 Nobel laureates visited ShanghaiTech during their trip to Shanghai for the World Laureates Association Forum. They were: Michel Mayor (recipient of 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery with Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz of the first known extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star), Randy Schekman (2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awardee for his...