The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) of ShanghaiTech University won the Shanghai Intellectual Property Innovation Award (Utilization Category) at the Awarding Ceremony of the 22nd Shanghai International Intellectual Property Forum. The award was jointly presented by Shanghai Vice Mayor Xie Dong and World Intellectual Property Organization Deputy Director General Wang Binying. Deputy Secret...

From everyday clothing and electronic devices we use, to vaccines in the medical field and building materials that transform cityscapes, polymers have permeated every corner of modern life like air itself. However, the vast majority of traditional polymers have random structures, single functionalities, and are difficult to recycle and reuse, leading not only to enormous resource waste but also to...

Α concert jointly presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra was held at the Conference Center of ShanghaiTech University οn the evening of October 17. Hosted by ShanghaiTech, this performance marked an exciting upgrade in the collaboration between the two orchestras—from last year’s chamber music partnership to a full symphonic co-performance—bringing the a...

Why do fields like physics, biology, and psychology operate independently, yet always seem to describe a shared world? Robert Prentner, assistant professor at the Institute of Humanities, offers an answer in his new paper: the unity of science isn’t about simplifying everything to physical laws, but stems from the transcendental unity of consciousness. Drawing on Daoist philosophy, this is like a...

From October 2 to 3, the 2025 Head of Shanghai River Regatta (HSRR) kicked off on the Suzhou Creek. The event featured two major categories: the 4.2-kilometer Chase and the 500-meter City Sprint, attracting 50 participating teams and over 650 athletes to compete in a spectacular “race on water.” The ShanghaiTech Boat Club has competed in this regatta for five consecutive years, and this year bro...

A team comprising students from the School of Creativity and Art (SCA), the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), and the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University, showcased five techno-art works at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, held from September 3 to 7 in Linz, Austria. One of their works, “txt2img⁻¹,” stood out with its unique perspective an...

Professor Shen Dinggang from the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at ShanghaiTech University received the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award (EIA) at the 2025 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), becoming the first Chinese scholar to win this honor since the award was established 17 years ago. The MICCAI Society is the premier c...

Associate Professor Peng Xu from the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University has published a new monograph, The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama, with the University of Michigan Press (2025). This landmark study offers an interdisciplinary history of sound, performance, and female agency in Chinese theater. By centering on courtesans as key agents of theatr...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Xu Wenqing from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech, in collaboration with other researchers, published a significant study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled “De novo design of protein binders to stabilize monomeric TDP-43 and inhibit its pathological aggre...

On September 10, the group led by Assistant Professor Yu You from the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech, along with collaborators, published a research paper titled “Printed sensing human-machine interface with individualized adaptive machine learning” in the journal Science Advances. This work introduces a advanced 3D-printed flexible human-machine interface technology....

Translated and edited from the article originally reported by China Science Daily.Recalling the story about her university time when she asked to skip a required English course so she could listen to a signal processing course offered by the computer science department, Bai Fang—now an associate professor at the School of Life Science and Technology and assistant director of the Shanghai Inst...

Imagine a single word evolving from a simple translation of “self-government” into the unbreakable spirit of India’s fight for freedom, a term so powerful that English couldn’t fully capture it. That’s the captivating story in a recent paper, “Swaraj (circa 1885-1922): Gandhi and the Early History of an Untranslatable Signifier,” published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, by Ass...

A research team led by Assistant Professor Yang Bei at the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) and Professor Chen Jia at SLST, ShanghaiTech University, has achieved a significantprogress in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) editing. Their study, published in Molecular Cell, revealed the first structural snapshots of...

At the SensUs 2025 Competition held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, at the end of August, the MakeSense team from ShanghaiTech, in its first-ever participation, delivered a stunning performance. Competing against top-tier global teams, MakeSense clinched the Analytical Performance Award (Global Champion) and the Innovation Award (Global Runner-Up), while also earning the SensUs Gold Medal...