The prognosis of late stage cancer patients after traditional cancer treatments such as radiation, surgery and chemotherapy is always poor. Immunotherapy with antibodies targeting immune checkpoints represents a major breakthrough in cancer treatment. Some cases of patients previously consideredincurable are now able to be cured through immunotherapy. However, only a fraction of patients show...

On May 8, 2018, School of Entrepreneurship and Management held a Design Thinking Roadshow.The Roadshow displayed product prototypes developed by 21 ShanghaiTech student groups and visitors awarded them “investment coupons.” In the end, a “Cubot Game for the Blinds”, “Tianchaochao Quick Breakfast” and “White-Color-Friendly-Chair” won the most “investment.” The winning teams said that unde...

Andrej Sali, University of California-San Francisco professor and adjunct professor of iHuman Institute, was elected as a member of National Academy of Sciences on May 1st. Professor Andrej Sali has been collaborated with iHuman Institute and last year was appointed as an adjunct professor at ShanghaiTech. Professor Sali is one of the leading experts in integrative structural biology. His research...

On April 27th, the Opening Ceremony for “Hard X-Ray Free Electron Laser Facility Forum- Opportunities and Challenges” was held at ShanghaiTech. Bai Jingyu, Department Director of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC); Zhou Bo, Executive Vice Mayor of Shanghai; Zhang Tao, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS); Jiang Mianheng, President of ShanghaiTech University; Shi ...

Professor Shengjie Ling of School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, in collaboration with Professor David L. Kaplan of Tufts University and Markus J. Buehler of Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a review article of “Nanofibrils in nature and materials engineering” in Nature Reviews Materials on April 5th.Biopolymer nanofibrils, such as cellulose, c...

Lin Haifan, Founding Dean of School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) of ShanghaiTech, Yale University Professor of Cell Biology and Reproductive Sciences and Director of the Yale Stem Cell Center, was among 213 academics newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), which celebrates excellence in a wide range of disciplines.Professor Lin’s work focuses on the ...

Recently, Dr. Ji Quangjiang’s group from the School of Physical Science and Technology deciphered the molecular mechanism of how the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus utilizes staphylopine (StP) to recognize and capture metal ions from its surroundings.Their research was published in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled “Mechanistic insights into staph...

A research team led by Professor Chen Gang of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University has solved the long-standing mystery of the origin of the attractive forces between like-charged colloidal particles. Their work was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.Colloids adsorbed at a fluid interface are ubiquitous in nature and central to a...

World-renowned economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff visited ShanghaiTech and delivered a lecture to faculty and students at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management on April 12. Professor Kotlikoff started his speech “Our Global Economic Future and How To Fix It” with his characteristic wry humor. “Economists are called dismal scientists. I won’t disappoint, ” he joked. He then presented the ...

A delegation led by Temasek Holdings Executive Director and CEO Ms. Ho Ching visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Mianheng Jiang on April 10th. President Jiang extended a warm welcome to Ms. Ho Ching and the Temasek delegates. Provost and Vice President Jie Yin introduced ShanghaiTech’s development and Wu Yibing, Joint Head (China) of Temasket International, introduced the company.Ms. Ho d...

An international effort within the immunology research community resulted in the first genome-wide CRISPR screen focused on the molecular mechanism of T cell function regulation. A group of scientists led by Dr. Haopeng Wang of ShanghaiTech’s School of Life Science and Technology, along with Dr. Arthur Weiss at UCSF and Dr. Lai Wei of the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat-sen University...

A team of scientists led by Professor Huaidong Jiang and Professor Zhi Liu of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, along with Professor Chunying Chen of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Professor Renzhong Tai of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics have made important progress in the field of bioimaging based on synchrotron radi...

Dr. Yi Deng, Dean of College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), Drexel and Professor Xia Lin, Head of Information Science Department & International Programs visited ShanghaiTech on April 7th and met with Dr. Lin Gao (Director of President Office), Yu Zhou (Vice Dean of SIST), Professor Jingyi Yu and other academic representatives. Professor Jingyi Yu made a thorough introduction of Shangha...

Richard Lester, Associate Provost and Bruce Tidor, professor of biological science and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Mianheng Jiang on the morning of March 28th.ShanghaiTech Provost and Vice President Jie Yin introduced ShanghaiTech, followed by presentations on the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) by Profes...