Cancer is one of the biggest killers threatening human life and chemotherapy, which kills cancer cells with molecular drugs that are toxic to cells, is one of the main ways to treat cancer. For metastatic tumors, chemotherapy is the most effective method. However, chemotherapy drugs can also kill a large number of normal cells, causing severe toxic side effects and seriously damaging the physical ...

On April 12, Professor Matthew Freeman FRS, head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at University of Oxford, visited ShanghaiTech.ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng, together with SLST undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs welcomed the professor at a lunchtime gathering where they shared their ideas about potential collaborations. Before lunch, Vice President and Provost Yin J...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Hu Ji from ShanghaiTech’s SLST and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine’s Dr. Xu Tian-le has discovered a new mechanism of itch processing.Itching is an interesting experience consisting of two seemingly opposing components: pruritogen-induced aversion and scratching-induced hedonic feelings. In this study, the joint research team reported on the midbr...

In a News and Views commentary entitled "To BE or not to BE, that is the question", Dr. Jia Chen at School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) of ShanghaiTech University, together with Dr. Bei Yang at Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) of ShanghaiTech University and Dr. Li Yang at CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) of Chines...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Yang Bei and Dr. Ian A. Wilson from ShanghaiTech’s SIAIS and Dr. Lu Lu and Dr. Jiang Shibo from Fudan University’s School of Basic Medical Sciences have developed a pan-coronavirus (pan-CoV) fusion inhibitor EK1. EK1 targets the HR1 domains of various human coronavirus (HCoV) spike (S) proteins to prevent the host-HCoV membrane fusion process and inhibits the host...

SPST Assistant Professor Liu Wei’s research group recently published an article titled “High-rate and large-capacity lithium metal anode enabled by volume conformal and self-healable composite polymer electrolyte” in Advanced Science.Lithium-metal batteries can provide a major leap in energy density for the applications of electric vehicles and smart grid, in light of growing demands for large-...

Recently, SPST Assistant Professor Zhang Yuebiao’s group reported a guest-dependent dynamic Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs). In this Issue, they developed a facial and scalable method to produce homogeneous and highly-crystallinity COFs. For the first time, scientists discovered the crystal contraction and expansion of COFs based on gases and guest molecules. Their study, “Guest-Dependent Dyn...

Recently, a research group led by SPST Assistant Professor Liu Xuerong discovered delocalized dimer orbitals in an iridate material Ba5AlIr2O11 using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). They observed delocalized states resulting from the competition between the intersite hopping and strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of the electrons. Their study opens new directions to study the electr...

On April 3rd, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Provost Nick Miles visited ShanghaiTech with Vice-Provost for External Relations Shen Weiqi, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning May Tan-Mullins, Vice Provost for Research Patrick Y.K. Chau, Associate Provost for Innovation and Advancement Cui Ping and Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering Wu Tao. ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianhen...

On March 23th, SIAIS and iHuman Institute successfully hosted the “Single Cell Genomics Symposium,” bringing together 100 people from universities and institutes around China including ShanghaiTech University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai General Hospital, Tongji University, Fudan University, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Zhong Guisheng, a...

On March 29, a delegation from the Russian Academy of Sciences headed by RAS President A.M. Sergeev visited ShanghaiTech University. President Jiang Mianheng, joined by Vice President and Provost Yin Jie, Office of the President Director Gao Lin and Office of Research Administration Vice Director Wang Jiang, extended a warm welcome to the delegates. The two groups discussed S&T developmen...

A team of scientists led by SLST Professor Dr. Hu Ji has discovered a new mechanism of stress coping and published their research, titled "Reward Inhibits Paraventricular CRH Neurons to Relieve Stress" in Current Biology. People encounter stressful stimuli every day.  Chronic, long-term stress can lead to various pathologies, including cardiovascular disease, inflammation, meta...

In March, Chairman of the Harvard China Fund and Professor at Harvard Business School William C. Kirby visited ShanghaiTech. President Jiang Mianheng and Vice Provost Jiang Ge discussed the development of top universities and innovation research universities with Professor Kirby.President Jiang said that ShanghaiTech values its relationship with Harvard and hopes to establish cooperation with Harv...

On March 16th - 17th, China Thinks Big (CTB) was held successfully at ShanghaiTech. Inspired by the Harvard Thinks Big competition, China Thinks Big carries forward the idea of innovative research and social practice at Harvard University, encouraging teenagers to “Think Big, Start Small” and help them to discover their interests by exploring important global issues and focusing on localize...