• AMR Conference held at ShanghaiTech
    On November 9, the AMR Conference co-sponsored by the journal Accounts of Materials Research (AMR) and ACS Publications came to a successful conclusion.  With the theme of “Materials for a Better Future”, this conference focused on the frontier hot topics and future directions of nano and porous materials research. The conference invited well-known domestic and foreign scholars in...
    2023-12-08
  • SLST teams with Correctseq report new cures for β-hemoglobinopathies
    CorrectSequence Therapeutics (Correctseq), a biotechnology company incubated from ShanghaiTech using innovative base editing technology to help people with severe diseases, today announced that the company and the research teams from ShanghaiTech University, Wuhan University, Fudan University and Children’s Hospital of Fudan University published an article entitled “Base editing of the HBG ...
    2023-12-05
  • ShanghaiTech holds the International Session of the 6th ShanghaiTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit
    On November 24, the International Session on Biomed of the 6th ShanghaiTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (techIES) took place in the University Auditorium, adopting a hybrid format. Leaders from the Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center, Office of Tech Transfer, and Office of International Affairs (OIA) attended the event. Dr. Nie Yan, Deputy Director of OIA, delivered an opening s...
    2023-12-01
  • Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center Phase I construction project welcomes new progress
    The Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center is a research-oriented hospital approved by the Shanghai Municipal Government and directly subordinate to the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission. It is being built and managed by ShanghaiTech University.  On September 30, 2022, the Center broke ground on the block next to the university campus in Zhangjiang. The construction currently underway...
    2023-11-28
  • A covert channel built on fsync with storage developed by SIST professor
    Recently, Assistant Professor Wang Chundong’s research group in SIST independently discovered a covert channel based on the fsync function within computer storage and named it Sync+Sync. The result was published in an article entitled “Sync+Sync: A Covert Channel Built on fsync with Storage”, and was accepted by USENIX Security 2024, one of the top four international conferences in the field of...
    2023-11-28
  • Congrats to the Winners of techIES 2023 International Session on Biomed!
    First Prize:Lumos: Non-Invasive Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring, Amanda Watson, University of VirginiaSecond Prize:Revolutionizing RNA Editing: Unlocking the Power of Novel RNA Oligonucleotides for Enhanced and Selective Editing Efficiency, Kaixin Lyu, EDIRNA (HONG KONG) LIMITEDThird Prize:Haptics Enhanced Medical Training in Extended Reality, Jiaming Qi, National University of Singapore
    2023-11-24
  • Philadelphia Orchestra Campus Event held as part of the celebration of 50-year musical friendship
     The Philadelphia Orchestra Campus Event was held at ShanghaiTech University on November 17, as part of the commemorative activities marking the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s first visit to China, as well as the implementation of the cooperation agreement between both institutions. The Campus Event included three parts: a dialogue themed “Music and Creativity”, a master class and a c...
    2023-11-23
  • Columbia University Delegation Visits ShanghaiTech
    On November 6, a delegation from Columbia University led by Dr. Soulaymane Kachani, Senior Vice Provost, visited ShanghaiTech. President Jiang Mianheng and Vice President Jiang Ge met with them and discussed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).Left: Dr. Soulaymane Kachani     Right: President Jiang Mianheng Jiang Ge extended a warm welcome to the delegation, an...
    2023-11-22
  • Breakthrough Discovery by ShanghaiTech researchers published in Nature
    Methamphetamine (METH), commonly known as crystal meth, is one of the most abused substances, posing a serious burden on human health and society. Currently, there are no approved drugs available for the treatment of METH addiction. METH addiction primarily operates by modulating dopamine release and reuptake, a widely known mechanism. Recent studies indicated that METH can directly bind to Trace ...
    2023-11-16
  • Undergraduates win Gold Award in the global finals of iGEM
    The global finals of the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) 2023 came to an end on November 5. The ShanghaiTech team, “ShanghaiTech-China”, won the Gold Award for their project—LAMPS (Luminous Algae Material Presenting System)—a sustainable light source with an advanced design. This project was also named as one of the Top 10 Undergrad (the world’s top 10 undergradu...
    2023-11-16
  • The 8th iHuman Forum held in October
    The event lasted for three days. iHuman hosted its 8th iHuman Forum from October 18 to 20 in the Conference Center. The Forum aims to be a platform for researchers to present and exchange their latest advances in the fields of structural biology, chemical biology, computational biology, medicinal chemistry and cryo-electron tomography. The opening of the forum was presided over by Raymond Stevens,...
    2023-11-07
  • ShanghaiTech welcomes the delegation from Mahidol University
    On the morning of October 26, a delegation from Mahidol University led by President Banchong Mahaisavariya and Vice President Nopraenue Sajjarax Dhirathiti visited ShanghaiTech, accompanied by representatives of the Chinese  Academy of Sciences (CAS) Innovation Cooperation Center Bangkok. Jiang Ge, Vice  President of ShanghaiTech extended a warm welcome to them. Zhu Chouwen,  Direct...
    2023-11-03
  • SCA holds one of the forums of WDCC 2023
    The Design for Health & Wellbeing Forum, one of the forums of the World Design Cities Conference 2023 (WDCC), an international design conference hosted by Shanghai, with its goal to be the “City of Design”, was convened on September 29 at Shanghai Huangpu Riverside. This forum was organized by SCA, co-organized by Shanghai Industrial Design Association (SIDA), and supported by BME. Leading e...
    2023-10-27
  • SIST paper wins ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
    At the 61st Annual Conference of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the paper submitted by Associate Professor Tu Kewei’s group, entitled “Do PLMs Know and Understand Ontological Knowledge?”, was honored with the Outstanding Paper Award. SIST graduated student Wu Weiqi ’23 is the first author, doctoral student Jiang Chengyue ’19 is the second author, and Prof. ...
    2023-10-17