On Feb. 27, 2019, the Basic Research Management Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the 14th edition of China’s Top 10 Scientific Advances. The research team led by Prof. HU Hailan from the ZJU School of Medicine offers a systematic explanation for the mechanism of depression that the bursting activity of lateral habenula neurons inhibits downstream monoaminergic reward centers and drives depression-like behaviors. Their discovery on this neuronal circ...

Immunotherapy, as one of the most promising cancer treatments, boosts the body’s immune system to fight cancer by activating T cells. T-cell receptors (TCRs) on T cell surface specifically and sensitively recognize rare foreign antigen or tumor neoantigen presented by major histocompatibility complexes (pMHCs) on cancer cells, which plays a vital role in recognizing and killing cancer cells. However, it still remains enigmatic that how to improve and control the efficiency of T cell killing in ...

ZJU has been shortlisted in the International Strategy of the Year category in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia 2019.The THE Awards Asia celebrate and publicize excellence in five key areas of university activity, namely Leadership and Management Team, International Strategy, Teaching and Learning Strategy, Outstanding Support for Students and Technological Innovation.The award of International Strategy of the Year recognizes outstanding success of an insti...

Recognized as a modern economy running on reliable roads and rails, China has made great efforts in developing transport infrastructure for decades. The network of roads and railways ties the country together and is at the heart of China’s outstanding economic growth.For any roads and railways, foundation is key to their construction, safety and long-term use. Complex geological conditions in China pose many challenges to this step. For example, in the coastal areas of southern China,...

█▌FEATURE ▌Nestled in a quiet corner near the university’s newly opened northeast gate, a group of paddlers gently push multi-coloured boats into the chilly waters. One by one, the boats slide into the calm lake. The sound of splashing water intersperses the light banter of the paddlers. Rays of sunlight pierce through the fresh flower buds of the overhanging trees, a gentle spring breeze adds to the crisp morning atmosphere.The tranquility belies the intense training about to begin for me...

The research team led by WANG Ben, an associate professor in the Zhejiang University Institute of Translational Medicine, develops a shear-flow-driven layer-by-layer (SF-LbL) in situ self-assembly technology. Their research is published in the journal of ACS Nano. This technology not only boosts the assembly speed tremendously and optimizes the surface texture of assembly films but also produces the in situ assembly film on wounded corneas and skin and accelerates the restoration of ch...

On Jan. 27, 35 students from ZJU’s School of Management and School of Computer Science and Technology arrived at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) for the 2019 Design + Innovation Singapore Winter Program. In the following week, they were brought through an innovation process that helped them better understand and practice user-centric design thinking.Organized by ZJU’s School of Management, the workshop aims to provide students with a unique design and innovation ...

The research team headed up by Prof. LU Linrong from the Institute of Immunology publishes an article entitled “Phosphatase PP2A is essential for TH17 differentiation” in the journal of PNAS. Phosphatase PP2A expression levels are positively correlated to the clinical severity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and IL17A cytokine overproduction, indicating a potential role of PP2A in controlling TH17 differentiation and inflammation. By generating a mouse strain with ablation of t...

Recently, Dr. WANG Dawei and Prof. WANG Haohua from the Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, in collaboration with several domestic and overseas teams, have successfully synthesized antisymmetric spin exchange interactions in an artificial quantum system and explored a novel approach to chiral spin clusters in superconducting circuits. Relevant findings are published in the January 21 issue of Nature Physics.When it comes to quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat ...

To the ZJU community and our international friends, Warmest greetings from the Office of Global Engagement for a Happy New Year.  We wish you and your family a joyful and prosperous 2019!Find out more about Chinese New Year: https://chinesenewyear.net/greetings/