SIAIS hosted a successful 2017 ShanghaiTech-SIAIS BioForum at ShanghaiTech’s brand-new conference center from November 13th to 16th.In the opening ceremony, ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Yin Jie and chairman of 2017 BioForum and BBRC editor Professor Ernesto Carafoli delivered opening addresses. Yin Jie welcomed the guests and introduced ShanghaiTech’s development, current situati...

In a recent study, Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from SIAIS and Professor Ma Da from Fudan University developed an acid-labile acyclic cucurbit[n]uril (CB[n]) molecular containers for controlled drug release. Their study was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.Pathological conditions such as tumors often lead to acidic microenvironment, making acid-labile drug carriers attr...