On August 19th, an article by a research group led by iHuman Institute and SLST Assistant Professor Zhong Guisheng, working with collaborators Southeast University Professor Chai Renjie and Fudan University Professor Li Huawei was published in Nature Communication, entitled ‘AAV-ie enables safe and efficient gene transfer to inner ear cells.’ They have identified a novel adeno-associated virus (A...

The Sino-German Symposium Shanghai 2019 was held successfully from September 17th to 21st 2019 at ShanghaiTech University. The symposium was jointly organized by ShanghaiTech University and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), with the support from Das Chinesisch-Deutsche Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung (CDZ, the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion). Under the theme of ‘Frontiers in tr...

On September 17, a delegation from Leiden University in Netherland visited Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS). The delegation, led by Professor Peter ten Dijke and Professor Jacques Neefjes, met with the Executive Director of SIAIS, Jiang Ge at the Y Building. Associate Professor David Baker and Assistant Professor Baoxu Pang from Leiden University Medical Center also a...

With graph attention mechanism, a ShanghaiTech team created an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) molecular representation method that can help medicinal chemists gain chemical insights from relevant drug discovery data directly.Hunting for chemicals with favorable pharmacological, toxicological, and pharmacokinetic properties remains a formidable challenge for drug discovery. To date, over ...

Recently, four papers from SIST were accepted by International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019. Among them, two papers come from Professor He Xuming’s research group, one paper comes from Professor Gao Shenghua’s research group and one paper comes from Professor Yu Jingyi’s research group. The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is one of the highest-level internat...

From August 31 to September 3, 2019, the 11th National Organic Chemistry conference was held at ShanghaiTech University. This year, the number of participants was a record high, attracting 2,700 chemical professionals, meanwhile more than 40 companies and academic institutions sponsored the academic event. The conference was organized by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Organic Chemistry Com...

After participating in an intense two weeks of orientation activities, the 398 incoming first year ShanghaiTech students attended opening ceremonies held by the Schools of Information Science and Technology, Life Science and Technology and Physical Science and Technology on September 6th. President Jiang Mianheng and Vice President and Provost Yin Jie spoke to the students, welcoming them to their...

On September 3, 2019, Dr. Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law from University of Pennsylvania, visited ShanghaiTech University and gave a public lecture on “Innovation and the Law.” Professor Yoo  introduced his unique career path starting from his days as an undergraduate physics major at Harvard who later earned a degree in Social Studies, an MBA from UCLA, and JD f...

On August 29th, 2019, a study led by a collaboration between ShanghaiTech Adjunct Professor Rao Zihe and SLST Adjunct Professor and CAS Institute of Biophysics Hu Junjie’s group was published online in Nature Communications. In the research article, “Mycobacterial dynamin-like protein IniA mediates membrane fission,” they reported the crystal structure of IniA, an isoniazid inducible protein, w...

The 2019 UPenn-SIST Joint Summer Camp ended on August 23, 2019 at ShanghaiTech’s School of Information Science and Technology. Organized by University of Pennsylvania and sponsored by ShanghaiTech University, a total of 46 students from 26 high schools including Shanghai High School, No.2 High School of East China Normal University, High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, High Sc...

The inauguration ceremony of the Bio-Electron Microscopy Facility of ShanghaiTech University was held in the atrium of Y-Building on July 30th. Founding Director of iHuman Institute, structural biologist Professor Raymond Stevens chaired the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Professor Yin Jie, iHuman Institute Overseas Distinguished Adjunct Profes...

From July 30th to 31st, the Forum on Imaging Across Scales and Cell Mapping and the Cryo-EM Facility Inauguration Ceremony of ShanghaiTech University was successfully held at the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University. Chaired by Professor Raymond Stevens, the forum hosted more than 100 participants including scholars, researchers and students from the National Center for Protein Science Shan...

On August 21st, UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean Jayathi Y. Murthy and the school’s Senior Executive Director of Development Melanie Masters Burzynski visited ShanghaiTech. President Jiang extended a warm welcome to the delegation and held a meeting with School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) Vice Dean Yu Jingyi. SIST Assis...

On August 27th, College Forum Hamburg-Shanghai “Science Parks-Attractors from Excellence, Talents and Innovation” was held at ShanghaiTech University. President Jiang Mianheng congratulated the organizers on the success of the forum and met with Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher, State Secretary Dr. Annette Tabbara, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) Administrative Director Dr. Christian Har...