• Congrats to the Winners of techIES 2022 International Session on Biomed!
    First Prize: “DOVE”Second Prize: “Rediscovering in silico MHC-I peptide misses as new starting points for future therapeutics”Third Prize: “Identifying promising non-coding silencers as druggable hits and targeting the dark side of the genome”
    2022-12-02
  • ShanghaiTech graduate students win the Best Paper Award in IEEE APCCAS 2022
    In the 2022 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (IEEE APCCAS) held in Shenzhen from November 11 to 13, a paper co-authored by ShanghaiTech graduate students won the Best Paper Award. The paper is entitled “Hierarchical and Recursive Floorplanning Algorithm for NoC-Based Scalable Multi-Die FPGAs”, whose co-authors are second-year master student Luo Jianwen, fifth-year Ph.D. ...
    2022-12-01
  • SIAIS researchers report the cryo-EM structure of eukaryotic NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex
    Recently, a group led by Distinguished Adjunct Professor Roger Kornberg and Research Associate Professor Zhang Heqiao of the laboratory of structure biochemistry at SIAIS, published a paper entitled “Structure of the NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), reporting a near-atomic resolution structure of the NuA4 co...
    2022-11-28
  • Yu Jingyi elected 2023 Optica Fellow
    Recently, the Optical Society of America (Optica) announced the list of 2023 elected Fellows. A total of 109 scholars from 24 countries and regions around the world were selected. Professor Yu Jingyi of ShanghaiTech was elected for his contributions to computational imaging systems. Prof. Yu has long been engaged in the fields of computer vision, computational imaging, computer grap...
    2022-11-25
  • Progress made in the field of biological 3D quantitative imaging
    Staphylococcus aureus is a widespread Gram-positive pathogenic bacterium and is regarded as the main cause of skin and soft tissue infections. Due to the widespread use of antibiotics to kill bacteria, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have emerged. Functional metal nanoclusters can specifically detect S. aureus and exhibit antibacterial activity, which is favored as a “green” sterili...
    2022-11-24
  • Progress made in the research of pressure-induced superconductivity in thallium-based topological materials
    The discovery of topological states and topological phase transitions has reshaped our understanding of physics and materials over the past few years. The topological transition from a normal insulator to a topological insulator (TI) can be realized by chemical or mechanical pressure. The topological transition was first predicted and demonstrated in Tl-based chalcogenides TlBi(S1−xSex)2 by i...
    2022-11-24
  • Life Dean's Lecture given by Nobel Laureate James Rothman
    In November, Life Dean's Lecture of ShanghaiTech came again as scheduled. The Life Dean's Lecture is a special edition of the SLST Seminar held once a year, where distinguished experts in life sciences are invited to share the frontier scientific advances with faculty and students. This year, James Rothman, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Distinguished Adjunct ...
    2022-11-24
  • Progress made in AI-aided discovery of anticancer drug targets
    Synthetic Lethality (SL) is a type of genetic interaction in which the simultaneous inactivation of two genes leads to cell death, while the inactivation of one gene alone does not affect the viability of the cell. In a pair of SL genes, if one gene has a cancer-specific mutation, the other gene can be a potential drug target because perturbation of the latter gene can selectively kill cancer cell...
    2022-11-15
  • SLST researchers report two NAMPT-targeting PROTAC compounds
    As an important small molecule metabolite, NAD+ is widely involved in a series of biochemical reactions in cell energy metabolism, such as glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, and fatty acid oxidation. Tumor cells proliferate faster and are prone to DNA damage, requiring more NAD+ consumption. NAMPT is a key rate-limiting enzyme for NAD+ synthesis. Aberrant overexpression of NAMPT...
    2022-11-10
  • ShanghaiTech team wins the gold medal in iGEM 2022
    On October 28, ShanghaiTech won the gold medal in the 2022 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) global finals among 350 teams from around the world. It is ShanghaiTech’s  sixth gold medal in this global student competition since its participation in 2016. The winning project is called “Mini Bioproduction Circle System on Mars Base (MBCS-Mars)”, conducte...
    2022-11-07
  • ShanghaiTech wins its 1st medal at Head of Shanghai River Regatta
    The two-day 2022 Head of Shanghai River Regatta was just concluded last weekend. The ShanghaiTech Boat Club participated in the 4.2-kilometer chase and 500-meter city dash of the regatta. In the men’s 4.2 km chase, ShanghaiTech team placed third and won the bronze medal with a time of 17 minutes and 23 seconds, the best result since ShanghaiTech’s first participation in the regatta. In the mixed...
    2022-11-01
  • New synthetic strategy for phosphorus-based polycyclic aromatic molecules
    Organic π-conjugated molecules (OCMs) have become promising candidates in the fields of organic catalysts, bio-imaging/sensing, and organic optoelectronics. Recently, introducing main-group elements (such as B, N, S, Si, P, etc.) into molecular backbones has become a powerful strategy for fine-tuning photo-physics, redox characteristics, molecular organizations, and optoelectronic functionalities...
    2022-10-31
  • CEO and Consul of Swissnex in China Dr. Philippe Roesle visits ShanghaiTech
    On October 24, 2022, Dr. Philippe Roesle, CEO and Consul of Swissnex in China, Switzerland’s Science Consulate in Shanghai, visited ShanghaiTech University. Vice President Jiang Ge held a meeting with him.After extending a warm welcome to Philippe Roesle and his delegation, Jiang Ge briefed the internationalization strategy of ShanghaiTech and mutual visits and joint events with Swiss institution...
    2022-10-28
  • The robustness problem of handwritten digits recognition well solved by ShanghaiTech researchers
    The great advances in deep learning techniques bring us a large number of sophisticated models that approach human-level performance in tasks such as image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing. Despite its success, deep neural network (DNN) models are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Even with adding human-unrecognizable perturbations, the predictions of the ...
    2022-10-18