On April 10, 2020, a joint research team led by Rao Zihe, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at SIAIS (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies), ShanghaiTech University, Wang Quan, Assistant Professor at School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) and SIAIS, ShanghaiTech University and Lou Zhiyong, Research Professor at Tsinghua University, published their research findings in Sc...

Recently, professors Rao Zihe and Yang Haitao at SIAIS (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies) of ShanghaiTech University, together with their collaborators, have determined the high-resolution crystal structure of main protease (Mpro) from COVID-19 virus and identified drugs that may have promise against COVID-19. Invited by ...

Researchers from SIAIS of ShanghaiTech have been engaged in the race against COVID-19 since the epidemic broke out in January 2020. To accelerate the research work of specific drugs, a symposium on COVID-19 research work was held at SIAIS on March 24. The symposium was hosted by Dr. Jiang Ge, the Executive Director of SIAIS, Vice Provost of ShanghaiTech. Attendees included Dr. Yin Jie, Vice P...

Digital electronic computer is the driving force that fuels our modern civilization. Modern computation has allowed the development of ever-increasing computing power by size scaling following the Moore’s Law. However, since the size scaling of CMOS technology has shown evidence of approaching a limit due to increased power density at small technology nodes, conventional digital computation using...

The COVID-19 has been spreading to most part of the world since the end of 2019.  ShanghaiTech University alumni are took quick actions to fight against the outbreak. Let ’s take a look at the epidemic-fighting stories of our Alumni. Voices of encouragement from overseas alumniAt this difficulty time, our alumni working and studying in all parts of the world are thinking about memb...

Recently, a joint research team led by Rao Zihe, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at SIAIS (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies), ShanghaiTech University, Wang Quan, Assistant Professor at School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) and SIAIS, ShanghaiTech University and Lou Zhiyong, Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, reported a 2.9 Å cryo-EM structure of the RNA-d...

Researchers from the iHuman Institute at ShanghaiTech University, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, SIMM), East China Normal University, University of Southern California, and the Danish biopharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk, have determined the first “peptide-free inactive structure of the full-length human glucagon like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) at atomic re...

Recently, different research teams led by Professor Sun Bo from SLST and Professor Xi Xu-Guang from French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have collaboratively published a research article entitled “Human RPA activates BLM's bidirectional DNA unwinding from a nick” in the journal eLife, revealing a novel unwinding model of a DNA-repair-i...

Groups of professors Liu Ji-Long，Zhuang Min, and Lu Pengfei from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University have jointly developed a new method CRUIS, or CRISPR-based RNA-United Interacting System, for capturing RNA-protein interactions on specific RNAs. It is a hybrid of two molecular machineries, CRISPR-based RNA-targeting Cas nuclease (dCas13a) and a proximity-...

Recently, Prof. Shui Wenqing’s group from iHuman Institute and SLST has made a breakthrough in bioactive screening from herbal extracts. Based on their previous work in developing the affinity mass spectrometry (MS) technique for ligand screening (Chemical Science 2018, Analytical Chemistry 2019), they combined affinity MS-based screening with compound isolation and ...

Recently, Professor Liu Yu’s group from Center for Intelligent Power and Energy Systems (CiPES) of SIST, proposed two accurate fault location methods on long and complex transmission lines. These two papers were published online in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, the best peer-reviewed journal in the field of power system protection, transmission and distribution. High-voltage long...

Recently, scientists from Xu Fei's lab at iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University with their collaborators made a new breakthrough in the field of human cell signaling research. They successfully resolved the 3D protein structures of the first human orphan GPR52 receptor and presented a full structural landscape covering the receptor’s different functional states: ligand-free state, ligand-...

Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs), which integrate both topology and magnetism within one system, have greatly broadened the research scope of quantum materials and spintronics. In contrast to the traditional magnetic atom doping method, MTI heterostructures, which can be realized by the combination of a topological insulator and a high-temperature magnetic material, have unique advantages. I...

A team of scientists led by Professor Lu Pengfei from SLST has unexpectedly identified that the traditional tight junction protein Occludin does not act as a barrier in epithelial tissue as expected. Instead, Occludin plays a vital role in the regulation of extremely basic and important protein production and secretion. On February 13th, 2020, the work from Lu's lab was publishe...