On March 22nd, Yale University Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost for International Affairs Pericles Lewis visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. He was accompanied by Ms. Fawn Wang, director for East Asia at Yale’s Office of International Affairs. President Jiang welcomed the Yale delegation and expressed the hope that ShanghaiTech and Yale University coul...

School of Life Science and Technology Associate Professor Tiffany Horng published a review article entitled "Metabolism as a guiding force for immunity" in Nature Cell Biology in January 2019, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic Assistant Professor Hu Zeng to publish a review article. This article reviews recent studies that have elucidated how the metabolism of immune cells plays an ...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Guan Ji-Song at the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech has decoded the role of retrosplenial cortex in contextual fear conditioning, retrieval and extinction with in vivo two-photon imaging and TRAP. They discovered the extinction memory engrams in retrosplenial cortex and artificially controlled the level of fear by manipulating different memory ...

On March 21st, ShanghaiTech welcomed an international delegation of promising young Scholars as the first stop of the 2019 Rhodes China Trip. 17 Rhodes Scholars hailing from 8 countries with specialties ranging from law, politics and medicine to public policy, toured the campus and participated in activities to promote extensive cultural, academic and personnel exchange.  ShanghaiTech Pr...

On March 16th, iHuman Institute successfully hosted the first “iHuman-SIAIS-SPST Joint Symposium.” This symposium, held in the auditorium of Y building and attracting 100 people to attend, was aimed at promoting the collaboration among the different schools, disciplines and research areas.iHuman Institute Research Associate Professor Tao Houchao hosted the joint symposium. ShanghaiTech Provost a...

Recently, three papers from SIST Assistant Professor Liu Yu’s research group were accepted by the 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), the most prestigious and the largest conference sponsored by IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES).First year graduate student Wang Binglin adopted the dynamic state estimation method to protect the VSC-HVDC transmission lines in the paper ‘V...

On March 12th, President Jiang Mianheng met with SIAIS Distinguished Adjunct Professor Michael Levitt during his stay in Shanghai for research work at ShanghaiTech. SIAIS Executive Director Jiang Ge and Levitt’s Co-PI Francesco Zonta attended the meeting.Professor Levitt briefed his research at ShanghaiTech on antibody structure prediction, virtual antibody screening, whole cell and simulation. P...

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are embryonic-like stem cells derived from adult somatic cells by a reprogramming process. They have a number of potential applications in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, including precision medicine. However, their potential clinical application is hampered by the low efficiency, high costs, and heavy workload of the reprogramming process...


On March 7th and 8th, University of Pennsylvania Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar and Penn Global Director Amy Gadsden visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng.University of Pennsylvania is one of ShanghaiTech’s important partners. Penn Engineering is currently working with School of Information Science and Technology on faculty development and student exchanges.President Jiang and...

Gender equality in STEM fields is a global hot topic. ShanghaiTech’s female researchers may make up a smaller percentage of the total faculty, but they are making their mark at ShanghaiTech with their groundbreaking research and leadership.  Shui WenQing  School of Life Science and Technology, iHuman InstituteiHuman Assistant Research Professor Shui Wenqing says research has p...

Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology ((SHIFT), in cooperation with Intel and iExec, demonstrated smart city service powered by 5G and blockchain at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 on February 25th to 28th in Barcelona. The demo presented a unified and decentralized smart city service platform based on 5G connection and blockchain technology. The robot rescue service developed by SHI...

In a new paper published in Developmental Cell, a team of researchers from ShanghaiTech University, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Tsinghua University, Johns Hopkins University and National Institute of Biological Sciences developed a powerful strategy and valuable reagents to systematically probe histone functions in Drosophila melanogaster.Associate Professor Gao Guanjun from the Sc...

The 5th ShanghaiTech-SIAIS Bioforum was successfully held November 13th to 16th at ShanghaiTech University, with the theme of “Advances in Integrative Biology of Cellular Processes.” The main topic discussed was breakthrough Technological Advances in Protein Research (Cryo-EM, Optogenetics, DNA-encoded Chemical Libraries). Over 500 attendees from universities, research institutions and corp...

As iHuman and SIAIS faculty and students stood in front of international and domestic media in the Ren Building auditorium for a press conference in late January, they spoke proudly of the hard work that had gone into their research, which resulted in the recent publishing of two groundbreaking research studies in the same issue of the prestigious Cell journal. What was also apparent at the p...