Zhejiang University (ZJU) has climbed one place in the QS World University Rankings 2021 released today, ranking 53rd among the 1604 institutions considered globally.  Since 2012, ZJU has risen 117 places and has improved on its performance for 8 consecutive years. The latest results position the University in the top five per cent of institutions considered across 93 locations.ZJU’s top-performing indicators - International Faculty and Employer Reputation – both achieved the impressi...

How is the feeling of pain generated? And what is our body going through when we are in pain? “Words are in vain when a patient is trying to describe the feeling to a doctor” said by Virginia Woolf, British author. Similarly, it remains a challenge for neuroscientists to come up with felicitous scientific mechanisms to help people understand pain.Researchers from Prof. LI Xiaoming’s lab, School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, have been de...

The novel coronavirus pandemic is still spreading across the world. As reported by WHO, there have been more than 6.4 million confirmed cases and more than 380 thousand deaths globally. With rapidly increasing number of confirmed cases in South American countries like Brazil, it warns us that this pandemic is far from over.Since the outbreak of the pandemic, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (ZJU4H) has been actively participating the nationwide concerted eff...

Crop growth is affected by a suite of factors, including temperatures, humidity, light, water and salinity. In modern agriculture, the smart sensing technology can collect relevant crop information with great ease.  However, electricity is indisputably the ‘engine’ of the prosperous development of intelligent agriculture in light of its indispensable role in real-time monitoring. However, it is always a formidable challenge to lay electricity supply lines in farm fields and batteries have...

Zhejiang University (ZJU) continues to lead Chinese universities in the latest guide to Asian university performance released by Times Higher Education (THE) today.In the 2020 edition of the THE Asia University Rankings that has the continent’s 489 best institutions listed, ZJU is now placed 13th up from 14th previously.ZJU received the distinction of having the highest score of any Asian institution for Industrial Income which measures the capability of knowledge transfer activity. This year t...

Zhejiang University (ZJU) has been recognized by Nature Index as one of the leading universities globally for its output of research in the natural sciences. In 2020 ZJU has now risen to 23rd in the world.The rankings, based on author affiliation with primary research articles from a group of prestigious science journals, place ZJU among the:- Rising stars in Life Sciences for 2020 (1st globally)- Rising stars in Earth and environmental sciences for 2020 (12nd globally)- Rising stars in Phy...

The 2nd National Award for Excellence in Innovation was held on May 30 which marked the 4th National Science and Technology Workers’ Day. 5 professors from Zhejiang University won recognition for their dedication to science and technology. They are LI Lanjuan (Director of the Zhejiang University State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases), CAI Xiujun (President of Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine), YAN Jianhua (Vice President of Zhejiang ...

A large proportion of the Chinese population suffers from liver disease. Chronic liver fibrosis tends to contribute to cirrhosis, one of the leading causes of death all over the world. At present, there is still a shortage of effective therapies for patients with liver fibrosis and terminal cirrhosis except liver transplantation.Recently, the journal of Blood published the latest findings of the research team led by Prof. WANG Fudi, Prof. Min Junxia and Prof. ZHENG Shusen. Researchers ...

Dr. YE Hexi, principal investigator in the School of Mathematical Sciences, recently published an article titled as ‘Uniform Manin-Mumford for a family of genus 2 curves ’ on the Annals of Mathematics, a prestigous journal in the field of mathmatics.Rational and torsion points on algebraic curves are the most concerned objects for the specialists in number theory and algebraic geometry. In 1983, Michel Raynaud proved the well known Manin-Mumford conjecture, which is now called Raynau...

Have you seen the photos of bruised faces of healthcare workers from wearing goggles and masks for a prolonged period? In their forehead and cheeks red splotches occurred where the protective mask dug into the skin.Many health care professionals criticized goggles for "causing the most trouble". Limited size selection, inconvenience for near-sighted staff are just two of many problems.In response to the various problems that traditional goggles bring to medics on the front lines of the...