The International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls on December 9 every year, is observed to raise public awareness of fighting against corruption all over the world.On the International Anti-Corruption Day this year, four students from the Zhejiang University College of Computer Science and Technology, including SHEN Lvkesheng, LU Ziyi, XING Shuting and CAI Yu, stood on the podium at the 2019 International Youth Contest of Social Anti-Corruption Advertising “Together against Corruption!”. Thei...

On December 2, Zhejiang University Overseas Academician Joint Lab for Advanced Composite Materials and Structures was officially launched. A total of 6 overseas experts, including Michael R. Wisnom (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a professor at the University of Bristol), Yiu-Wing Mai (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a professor at the University of Sydney), Prof. Kevin D. Potter, Prof. Fabrizio Scarpa and Prof. SU Bo from the University of Bristol, and P...

Recently, the research team led by Prof. XU Xiao from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine published a research paper entitled “SP22 promotes hypoxia-induced hepatocellular carcinoma stemness by a HIF1α/USP22 positive feedback loop upon TP53 inactivation” in the journal of Gut.In this study, researchers established cell counting, migration, self-renewal ability, chemoresistance and expression of stemness genes to detect the stemness of HCC cells. They applied immunoprecipitati...

Researchers applied a biomineralization‐inspired technique to synthesize functional organic–inorganic fibers that are structurally complex and, furthermore, industrially manufacture spider silk fibers (SSF)‐like artificial fibers with a supertoughness. Their findings are published in Advanced Functional Materials.Nature provides an infinite amount of inspiration for human beings and biomimicry is one of the most extensively used methods among scientists. Natural SSF are characterized by their su...

The 2019 annual Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation award ceremony was held in Beijing on November 18, with 56 leading scientists in various fields receiving prizes at different levels for their remarkable achievements in science and technology.Prof. HU Hailan was conferred the 2019 Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in the category of life sciences by the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in recognition of her remarkable contributions to the scientific and innovative community in recent ...

On November 21st, 2019, the 3rd China-New Zealand Technology Innovation Summit was held in Hangzhou. Professor Yang Tingzhong from the Tobacco Control Research Center of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (TCRC) was invited to attend the conference and gave a speech at the opening ceremony.The theme of this conference is "IDEAS TO LIFE", creating a better world with innovation. Professor Yang said tobacco control is an important method not only to promote population health, but als...

The 3rd Joint Symposium on Integrated Biosciences between Zhejiang University and the University of Tokyo was held in the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology on November 22-25. “ZJU and UTokyo have worked in close partnership with each other and yielded fruitful results in various aspects. I look forward to strengthening ties to develop further links in the future,” said CHEN Xuexin, dean of the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, in the opening ceremony.“I hope that part...

The most basic and pivotal structure of the chip is the field-effect transistor (FET) which is responsible for data storage and operation in this crucial “brain” with stunning rapidity.The FET is primarily comprised of silicon semiconductors. A “highway” is built for electrons or holes to run at the interface between silicon and insulating oxide. Metal electrodes are combined to control the “on/off” switch of the “highway”, thus forming a fundamental metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) ...

Zhejiang University is up seven slots, from #13 to #6, in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings for 2020.  QS Asia assesses universities based on academic reputation (30%), employer reputation (20%), faculty/student ratio (10%), international research network (10%), citations per paper (10%) and papers per faculty (5%), staff with a PhD (5%), proportion of international faculty (2.5%) and proportion of international students (2.5%), proportion of inbound exchange students (...

On November 24, the grand final of the 1st “Intel Cup” China Postgraduate AI Innovation Competition was concluded in Deqing City, Zhejiang Province. Zhejiang University performed remarkably, clinching a total of six prizes.  “Holding competitions in the field of artificial intelligence among college students is an integral part of serving the national entrepreneurship and innovation strategy and stimulating the innovative potential of young students. I hope that students will integr...