Nature Microbiology recently made available as an Advance Online Publication the research findings of a collaboration between SIAIS Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from the Laboratory of ADC Chemistry and Professor Xu Jianqin from Fudan University Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on new progress on Zika virus, elucidating the role of AXL in promoting Zika virus (ZIKV) infection.ZIK...

ShanghaiTech University and Jing Medicine Technology (Shanghai) Ltd. announced an over $100 million USD strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel small molecule anti-cancer drugs. Under the terms of the agreement, Jing Medicine will receive global development and commercialization rights of anti-cancer molecules resulting from the collaboration with ShanghaiTech University. ShanghaiTec...

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...