On January 19, two ShanghaiTech’s research findings were selected among “China’s Top 10 Advances in Life Sciences in 2022” as the list unveiled by the China Association for Science and Technology. The “world’s first ‘Perturb-Atlas’ for deciphering gene function” achieved by the group of Professor Chi Tian from SLST was selected, putting ShanghaiTech’s research achievements selected ...

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of bone, mostly seen in children and adolescents. Comprehensive treatment options for osteosarcoma have not evolved significantly in the last 30 years, and there is an urgent need to explore new therapies. Osteosarcoma is highly malignant, prone to metastasis, and has a poor prognosis. Traditional standard treatment of osteosarcoma relie...

On December 7, 2022, a coffee meeting for international faculty was held on the second floor of the NestArt Coffee. This meeting was jointly organized by the Office of Human Resources and the Office of International Affairs (OIA), aiming at strengthening the connection between international faculty and the administration and creating a more international environment. Around 20 international facult...

Jing Medicine's embryonic ectoderm development (EED) inhibitor HJM-353 recently obtained approvals for clinical trials in both China and the United States. This is a major milestone in the transformation project signed between ShanghaiTech and Jing Medicine in 2019. It is also the first time that a transformation project of ShanghaiTech obtained approvals for clinical trials in both China and ...

On August 22, 2022, ShanghaiTech University signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP - UGA, France) and École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM, France). Based on the LOI, ShanghaiTech and the two French institutions plan to carry out cooperation in several areas, including mutual visits of students and faculty, dual-degree prog...

On December 20, GT919, the first molecular glue pipeline for oral administration of Gluetacs Therapeutics, a ShanghaiTech-incubated pharmaceutical company, obtained the implied permission for clinical trials from the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE). Founded in 2020, Gluetacs has raised venture capital of more than 100 million yuan, and signed exclusive patent licensing agreements with ShanghaiTec...

The 15th C.C. Tan Life Science Awards Ceremony was held at ShanghaiTech University on December 10. A total of 17 scientists won C.C. Tan Life Science Awards this year. The ceremony was presided over by CAS Academician Rao Zihe, who also serves as the Chair of the Award Committee and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of ShanghaiTech. The celebration was held both virtually and on-site. CAS Aca...

On November 20, a grand 10-year Anniversary Celebration event for iHuman Institute was held at the Conference Center. The celebration, which is also the first iHuman Alumni Symposia, was hosted by Liu Zhi-Jie, Dean of the Dadao College and Executive Director of iHuman Institute. Liu Zhi-Jie hosted the celebration eventA 10-minute celebration video clip was played at the beginning, showing the...

On December 2, the first International Session of ShanghaiTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (techIES) was held as a hybrid event, with both in-person and live stream options. Deputy Director of International Affairs Dr. Nie Yan delivered the opening speech and Assistant Director Ms. Xiao Yin hosted the event. The International Session has attracted 13 projects from six countries. Eventua...

First Prize: “DOVE”Second Prize: “Rediscovering in silico MHC-I peptide misses as new starting points for future therapeutics”Third Prize: “Identifying promising non-coding silencers as druggable hits and targeting the dark side of the genome”

In the 2022 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (IEEE APCCAS) held in Shenzhen from November 11 to 13, a paper co-authored by ShanghaiTech graduate students won the Best Paper Award. The paper is entitled “Hierarchical and Recursive Floorplanning Algorithm for NoC-Based Scalable Multi-Die FPGAs”, whose co-authors are second-year master student Luo Jianwen, fifth-year Ph.D. ...

Recently, a group led by Distinguished Adjunct Professor Roger Kornberg and Research Associate Professor Zhang Heqiao of the laboratory of structure biochemistry at SIAIS, published a paper entitled “Structure of the NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), reporting a near-atomic resolution structure of the NuA4 co...

Recently, the Optical Society of America (Optica) announced the list of 2023 elected Fellows. A total of 109 scholars from 24 countries and regions around the world were selected. Professor Yu Jingyi of ShanghaiTech was elected for his contributions to computational imaging systems. Prof. Yu has long been engaged in the fields of computer vision, computational imaging, computer grap...

Staphylococcus aureus is a widespread Gram-positive pathogenic bacterium and is regarded as the main cause of skin and soft tissue infections. Due to the widespread use of antibiotics to kill bacteria, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have emerged. Functional metal nanoclusters can specifically detect S. aureus and exhibit antibacterial activity, which is favored as a “green” sterili...