iHuman Institute Professor Raymond C. Stevens and his team recently elucidated the first crystal structures of the δ-opioid receptor (DOP) in an activated state. The results were published in the journal Science Advances, in an article titled “Elucidating the active δ-opioid receptor crystal structure with peptide and small-molecule agonists.” ShanghaiTech University PhD student Yu Jing from R...

From Oct 12th to Oct 21th, the CCP4/Shanghai School in Macromolecular Crystallography: From Data Collection to Structure Refinement and Beyond was held at National Facility for Protein Science Shanghai (NFPS) and ShanghaiTech University. Jointly organized by Collaborative Computational Project No. 4 Software for Macromolecule X-Ray Crystallography (CCP4), NFPS, iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech and...

On September 24, the 13th International Conferenceon Biology and Synchrotron Radiation successfully concluded at ShanghaiTech University. Jointly organized by iHuman Institute, Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Biophysical Society of China, Chinese Crystallographic Society and Shanghai Society of Biophysics, it was co-...

iHuman Institute Founding Director Dr. Raymond C. Stevens received the 2019 Magnolia Golden Award in recognition of his great contributions to scientific research achievement and for nurturing and mentoring Chinese young scientists.The Magnolia Golden Award has been awarded annually since 1993, and was established to recognize foreign experts and partners for their outstanding contributions to Sha...

iHuman Research Assistant Professor Dr. Chen Ming was awarded the 2019 Yangtze River Delta Neuroscience Young Scientist Award on August 15, 2019. Jointly established by Shanghai Society of Neuroscience, Anhui Society for Neuroscience, Zhejiang Society for Neuroscience and Jiangsu Society for Neuroscience, the award is given each year to six young scientists in the research field of neuroscience fo...

On August 19th, an article by a research group led by iHuman Institute and SLST Assistant Professor Zhong Guisheng, working with collaborators Southeast University Professor Chai Renjie and Fudan University Professor Li Huawei was published in Nature Communication, entitled ‘AAV-ie enables safe and efficient gene transfer to inner ear cells.’ They have identified a novel adeno-associated virus (A...

The 2019 UPenn-SIST Joint Summer Camp ended on August 23, 2019 at ShanghaiTech’s School of Information Science and Technology. Organized by University of Pennsylvania and sponsored by ShanghaiTech University, a total of 46 students from 26 high schools including Shanghai High School, No.2 High School of East China Normal University, High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, High Sc...

The inauguration ceremony of the Bio-Electron Microscopy Facility of ShanghaiTech University was held in the atrium of Y-Building on July 30th. Founding Director of iHuman Institute, structural biologist Professor Raymond Stevens chaired the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Professor Yin Jie, iHuman Institute Overseas Distinguished Adjunct Profes...

From July 30th to 31st, the Forum on Imaging Across Scales and Cell Mapping and the Cryo-EM Facility Inauguration Ceremony of ShanghaiTech University was successfully held at the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University. Chaired by Professor Raymond Stevens, the forum hosted more than 100 participants including scholars, researchers and students from the National Center for Protein Science Shan...

On March 23th, SIAIS and iHuman Institute successfully hosted the “Single Cell Genomics Symposium,” bringing together 100 people from universities and institutes around China including ShanghaiTech University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai General Hospital, Tongji University, Fudan University, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Zhong Guisheng, a...

On March 16th, iHuman Institute successfully hosted the first “iHuman-SIAIS-SPST Joint Symposium.” This symposium, held in the auditorium of Y building and attracting 100 people to attend, was aimed at promoting the collaboration among the different schools, disciplines and research areas.iHuman Institute Research Associate Professor Tao Houchao hosted the joint symposium. ShanghaiTech Provost a...

The Symposium on Probing Protein Structures with Bio-MS and Complementary Technologies was held at ShanghaiTech University on November 18th, organized by Shui Wenjing Group of iHuman Institute and supported by Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, CAS. This symposium aims at exploring multiple Bio-MS techniques and complementary approaches to studying the structural composition, interactio...

On November 2nd, the 17th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM17) and the 6th iHuman Forum successfully concluded. Co- hosted by iHuman Institute and Northwestern Polytechnical University as well as Shanghai Biophysical Society, ICCBM is a well-recognized international academic conference affiliated to the International Organization for Biological Cry...

The Xu Laboratory at ShanghaiTech’s iHuman Institute has deciphered the high-resolution crystal structure of the first human Frizzled receptor. As a gatekeeping protein in regulating the fundamental Wnt signaling in embryonic development and tumorigenesis, the Frizzled receptors (FZDs) have been cancer drug targets for decades without success.However, these results, which illustrate the unique ar...