Many natural biological systems—such as biofilms, shells and skeletal tissues—create multifunctional and environmentally responsive multiscale assemblies of living and non-living components. Such living materials grow, self-repair, and adapt to the environment, possessing many living attributes that are unattainable for most artificial materials. Taking inspiration from nature and leveraging the p...

Recently, SPST Yang Xiaoyu’s group have achieved highly enantioselective synthesis of tertiary 2-amidoallylic alcohols, and their research was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition with the title of “Kinetic Resolution of Tertiary 2-Alkoxycarboxamido-allylic Alcohols by Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Intramolecular Transesterification.”Chiral alcohols are important building blo...

Li Yike, a senior computer science student in the School of Information Science and Technology and a finance minor still remembers her first week on campus. “I felt curious about everything!” Li is always on the search for something new to try, and that may be why she decided to attend ShanghaiTech, even though the new university’s campus was still very much under construction. “I like to do n...

As one of just the second undergraduate class to graduate from ShanghaiTech, Xie Zhiqiang feels the immense influence he and his classmates have had on the development of the university. “We students shaped something here at the school,” he says with pride. His four years here were about constantly challenging himself and discovering new things. Entering as a freshman, Xie started out as a ...

When the undergraduate Class of 2019 crosses the stage to receive their diplomas this month, they represent the best ShanghaiTech has to offer. The paths they took converged for four years on campus together, and now they prepare to head off in different directions. School of Life Science and Technology graduating senior Zhang Yuxi’s college experience didn’t start out so well. She felt dis...

Gao Hanwen, a senior from Shandong Province, remembers visiting ShanghaiTech as a high school senior for Open Campus Day. In a one on one interview with professors, he asked them about scientific research. “All of the physics I knew was from the exam, was from the book and that's totally different from the research. So, in the one hand, I am very interested in physics. I was confused whe...

The first Symposium on Frontier in PROTAC Drug Discovery and Development was held on May 16th by the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) at the Conference Center of ShanghaiTech University. This symposium received wide attention and enthusiastic response from the more than 600 attendees from enterprises and academia in China and abroad. Notably, more than half of the att...

On May 2nd, Advanced Science published a collaborative study from Drs. Liu Jia, Jiang Biao Laboratories of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) and Dr. Jiang Xianxing from the School of Pharmaceutical Science at Sun Yat-Sen University, entitled “Photoactivatable Fluorogenic Labeling via Turn‐On “Click‐Like” Nitroso‐Diene Bioorthogonal Reaction”. Their study devel...

SLST Professor Shen Wei’s lab, in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science & Technology Professor Li Haohong’s Lab, have discovered a novel mechanism of predatory hunting and reward feeding. Their research, published on May 23rd in an article in Nature Neuroscience entitled “Zona incerta GABAergic neurons integrate prey-related sensory signals and induce an appetitive drive to...

A team of scientists led by SLST’s Dr. Zhang Hui and CAS Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology’s Dr. Zhou Bin, has discovered a new mechanism for neonatal heart regeneration. Their findings suggest that cellular senescence that occurs after heart injury plays an essential role in neonatal heart regeneration. Their work, entitled “CCN1-Induced Cellular Senescence Promotes Heart Reg...

On May 26th, ShanghaiTech University signed a tripartite agreement with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, formalizing a new strategic partnership that will strengthen communication across cultures and disciplines and boost the integration between science and arts.“At ShanghaiTech, we develop students’ academic potential in science and technology and nurture thei...

SPST scientists Professor Osamu Terasaki, Dr. Peter Oleynikov, Dr. Alvaro Mayoral and Dr. Ma Yanhang, have collaborated with Professor Kyung Byung Yoon to report a new layered vanadosilicate for removal of 90Sr from highly Na+-rich liquid nuclear waste. The paper was published in Energy & Environmental Science with the title of “Removal of 90Sr from highly Na+-rich liquid nuclear waste w...

A team of scientists led by SLST’s Dr. Qi Wei from and Dr. Song Baoliang from Wuhan University has identified Gpnmb as a liver-secreted factor promoting lipogenesis in white adipose tissue and aggravating obesity and insulin resistance. Using neutralizing antibody, they also demonstrated that reducing circulating Gpnmb brought therapeutic benefit to obesity and diabetes in animal models. This stu...

SEM Assistant Professor Zhou Xiaoyu, in collaboration with Peking University Associate Professor Zhang Yanlong and Singapore Management University Professor Wang Heli, studied empirically how Chinese firms translate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities into financial market value through multiple paths. Their research was recently published in the Academy of Management Journal, e...