On August 26th, 2020, a team led by SIAIS Distinguished Adjunct Professor Lin Haifan published new findings in PNAS in an article entitled “PIWIL1 Promotes Gastric Cancer via a piRNA-Independent Mechanism”. These findings reveal a new function and action mechanism of PIWI proteins in oncogenesis, guiding the identification of PIWI inhibitors to cure cancer.   Precision m...

On December 19th, the 14th award ceremony of Wuxi AppTec Life Science and Chemistry Award was held virtually. Yang Haitao, Deputy Director and PI of the SIAIS and Associate Professor of the SLST at ShanghaiTech was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement Award”; Xu Fei, Assistant Director and PI of the iHuman and Associate Professor of the SLST, was awarded the “Scholar Award”. Among the out...

Professor Shao Ziyu’s research group of SIST made an important advance in intelligent networking, addressing the following challenge: “How to systematically design effective predictive scheduling algorithms for intelligent networks?” Their results, of high importance to recent software-defined networking (SDN) systems, were published in an article entitled “Predictive Switch-Controller Associa...

On December 13th, ShanghaiTech successfully held the second competition of the 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit in the Y Building. The topic of this competition focused on biomedicine and healthcare, attracting a total of 11 student groups and 24 faculty groups to participate in the event. The group members included not only professors, researchers, graduates and undergraduates from SLST...

On December 12th, ShanghaiTech successfully held the first competition of the 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit in the auditorium of SPST. The topic of this competition focused on new energy, new materials and intelligent manufacturing, attracting a total of 15 student groups and 8 faculty groups to participate in the event. The group members included not only professors, resear...

In the past two years, two novel model reduction methods for high-dimensional stochastic computational models were proposed by the Visual and Data Intelligence Center (VDI Center) of SIST. The first method, proposed in the article entitled “Rank adaptive tensor recovery-based model reduction for partial differential equations with high-dimensional random inputs”, provided a new systematic comput...

Recently, iHuman Founding Director Raymond Stevens was identified as a highly cited researcher for his exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that ranked in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. This is the 7th year in a row he has achieved this accomplishment. Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world...

On November 4th, 2020, Professor Yang Haitao, Principal Investigator at Shanghai Institute of Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) of ShanghaiTech University, was honored as one of the 10 Falling Walls winners in the life sciences category. The Falling Walls Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Berlin, selected “Breakthroughs” in different categories out of a pool of 900 nominations ...

A team of scientists led by Professor Zhang Hui from SLST has identified a novel potential therapeutic strategy to treat myocardial infarction. On November 20th, 2020, a paper entitled “Overexpression of Kdr in adult endocardium induces endocardial neovascularization and improves heart function after myocardial infarction” was published online in Cell Research. &nbs...

On November 3rd, 2020, a team led by SIAIS Distinguished Adjunct Professor Fan Guoping and Research Associate Professor Zhu Xianmin published new findings in the Springer Nature Group Journal Oncogene with the title of “Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the heterogeneous tumor and immune cell populations in early-stage lung adenocarcinomas harboring EGFR mutations”. This work is ...

On November 12th, a delegation from Toshiba (China) Co., Ltd. and NEDO visited ShanghaiTech University. Toshiba (China) Chairman Yoichi Miyazaki, the Director of the First Business Promotion Department, Zhang Tong, the Director of the New Business Development Department, Ju Huijuan, the Director of the Beijing Office of NEDO, Shigetaka Takagi, together with Representative Liang Xiao met with Presi...

Professor Chen Xiuxiong, the founding director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, ShanghaiTech University, and Professor Wang Bing of the University of Science and Technology of China, have made major breakthroughs in the field of differential geometry. They successfully proved the Hamilton-Tian Conjecture and the Zero-Order Estimation Conjecture, which are the core conjectures that have b...

On October 30, 2020, a research article entitled “Structural basis of trehalose recycling by the ABC transporter LpqY-SugABC” was published in Science Advances by a joint research team led by Prof. Rao Zihe, a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS). This work reported four high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure...

Eight delegates from the Springer Nature Group visited ShanghaiTech on Nov. 5, 2020, led by the President, Arnout Jacob, and Vice President Helena Yang. President Jiang Mianheng of ShanghaiTech, together with the Vice President Jiang Ge, the Director of the Library and Information Center Zhang Xiaolin, and the Vice Dean of the School of Physical Science and Technology Liu Zhi co-hosted the meeting...