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 n...

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 betwe...

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 journal...

On October 30th, a group of six 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 h...

On October 29th, Editor-in-Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for Nature Research Dr. Magdalena Skipper visited ShanghaiTech, along with Dr. Yang Xiaohong, Scientific Director of Springer Nature for Greater China and Executive Editor for the Nature Research journals and Ms. Teng Liyan, Editorial Project Specialist, Nature Research.Dr. Skipper’s first stops were at Shanghai...

SIAIS Principal Investigator Dr. Rao Zihe and his team recently unveiled the 3-dimensional structure of the African swine fever (ASF) virus, a giant and complex virus which causes a contagious and lethal swine disease all over the world. The study, entitled ‘Architecture of African swine fever virus and implications for viral assembly,’ was published in Science on Oct 17th.  Since...

From Oct 12th to Oct 21th, the CCP4/Shanghai School in Macromolecular Crystallography: From Data Collection to Structure Refinement and Beyond was held at National Facility for Protein Science Shanghai (NFPS) and ShanghaiTech University. Jointly organized by Collaborative Computational Project No. 4 Software for Macromolecule X-Ray Crystallography (CCP4), NFPS, iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech and...

On October 26th, SIST Professor Yang Yang and Assistant Professor Laurent Kneip were to speak at the Global Autonomous Driving Summit in Suzhou. The event was organized by the local government of Suzhou’s Xiangcheng district, who released an exhaustive and well-coordinated plan on urban development and attraction of emerging high-tech industries focusing on intelligent transportation. The ev...

Recently, SIST professor Wang Haoyu’s group from CiPES proposed a novel LLC-based, highly efficient hybrid hierarchical equalization structure for series-connected battery strings. The paper, titled “An LLC Based Highly Efficient S2M and C2C Hybrid Hierarchical Battery Equalizer,” was published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.  Compared with traditional equalization techniques, t...

On October 21th, the CAR T-cell therapy pioneer Dr. Carl H. June delivered the ShanghaiTech Lecture, entitled “The Development of CAR T Cell Immunotherapy,” to a packed auditorium. ShanghaiTech president Dr. Jiang Mianheng thanked Dr. Carl H. June on behalf of ShanghaiTech University and presented him with the ShanghaiTech Lecture plaque as a token of appreciation.Before the lecture, ShanghaiTec...