After two months of preliminary competition, Geekpie from ShanghaiTech University successfully submitted a proposal to the Asia Supercomputing Community (ASC) HPC Contest. The team, comprising of five undergraduate students and led by Dr. Shu Yin, an assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University, finished first at the preliminaries and gained acceptance to the finals, which will take place in May...

A famous line from a novel by Henry Miller reads, “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” For ShanghaiTech students who have returned from study abroad, it seems that their time abroad has been both an academic and personal journey.Half of ShanghaiTech students will have the opportunity to study abroad before graduation, in a summer school program or a s...

A student leans over a worktable, sawing back and forth with a handsaw. Over the loud din, another student tells me she’s building a stool. Sawdust flies as beautiful, yet functional, wood pieces come together through the students’ patient and determined handiwork. The woodworking class is one of ShanghaiTech’s new offerings, a hands-on class to supplement the students’ current lab-heavy workl...

A team of researchers led by Professor Lin Bolin at ShanghaiTech University have discovered a new principle for efficient CO2 mitigation, and, for the first time, explicitly overturned the dominant paradigm that the use of fossil fuel power to drive CO2 chemical reductions would create more CO2 emissions than it would reduce CO2. The researchers propose a progressive strategy for gl...

Recently, a collaboration between the Ji Lab at the School of Physical Science and Technology, and Beijing Institute of Genomics’s Han Lab developed a single-base editing technique in Staphylococcus aureus and their results were published online in Chemical Science in an article titled, “Highly Efficient Base Editing in Staphylococcus aureus Using an Engineered CRISPR RNA-guided C...

Nature Microbiology recently made available as an Advance Online Publication the research findings of a collaboration between SIAIS Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from the Laboratory of ADC Chemistry and Professor Xu Jianqin from Fudan University Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on new progress on Zika virus, elucidating the role of AXL in promoting Zika virus (ZIKV) infection.ZIK...

ShanghaiTech University and Jing Medicine Technology (Shanghai) Ltd. announced an over $100 million USD strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel small molecule anti-cancer drugs. Under the terms of the agreement, Jing Medicine will receive global development and commercialization rights of anti-cancer molecules resulting from the collaboration with ShanghaiTech University. ShanghaiTec...

Polypharmacology is the next generation of disease treatment, promising more effective drugs that are less toxic and have fewer side effects. However, polypharmacological drugs, which simultaneously act on multiple targets, remain extremely difficult to develop, though maybe not for long, according to a study published this week in Cell.Apparently, the key lies in obtaining a better understanding ...

The direct conversion of solar energy to electrical power is widely regarded as a key technology to tackle the energy crisis in a sustainable manner. Among innovative technologies, metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have advanced to the forefront of solution-processed photovoltaic techniques, promising for high power conversion efficiency and low cost. Currently, the technique involving th...

Nature Neuroscience recently published a study demonstrating that the transcription of multiple genes in the brain can be simultaneously activated using CRISPR–dCas9-activator transgenic mice. This work was performed by researchers in Dr. YANG Hui’s lab at the Institute of Neuroscience and State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Techn...

It was past dusk and a group of ShanghaiTech students were prowling around in the dark at Shanghai’s Chenshan Botanical Garden using only their smart phones to light the way. Walking through a grassy area, they came upon a surprising sight. The two hedgehogs they found out on an evening stroll were probably just as surprised to see the students, who typically spend more time in the lab than in th...

Under the support of the National Key Research and Development Program titled “High stability, full spectrum, high-efficiency solar cells materials exploration and device realization,” the School of Physical Science Technology’s Ning Zhijun Group explored Lead Sulfide (PbS) as the active layer and developed highly efficient inverted structural quantum dot (QDs) solar cells. Recently, their work...