The First ZHITU Symposium on Advances in Civil Engineering was held in the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture (CCEA), ZJU on July 12-14.ZHITU stands for the union of five universities, namely, ZJU, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Tokyo (UoT) and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). ZHITU, ‘智途’ in Chinese, also means ‘a smart path for the future’.Covering topics on structures,...

The research team led by WANG Xiaojian, a professor of immunology in the School of Medicine, worked together with the research team led by SUN Jihong from the Department of Radiology in the Sir Run Shaw Shaw Hospital to discover the function of downregulated NDR1 protein kinase in inhibiting innate immune response by initiating an miR146a-STAT1 feedback loop. The findings are published online in the July 17 issue of the journal of Nature Communications.Interferon (IFN)-stimulated genes (ISG...

The research team headed by WANG Fangwei, a professor with Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network at Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “WAC Promotes Polo-like Kinase 1 Activation for Timely Mitotic Entry” in the July 17 issue of the journal of Cell Reports.Cell division is the process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. It usually occurs as part of a larger cell cycle. Actively dividing eukaryote cells pass through ...

In a laboratory in the Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University, scientists are attempting to expose a mouse with breast cancer to near-infrared laser radiation. 3 minutes later, the “drug box” in the tumor area is then opened, thereby allowing anti-tumor drug to penetrate into the deep tissue evenly. Four hours later, cancer cells are eradicated.The research team, headed by ZHOU Min with the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University and the Institute of Translatio...

Competing against more than 500 teams from around the world, Team Designer from ZJU’s Incas-lab (Intelligent Computing and Systems Laboratory) claimed a championship spotearlier this month in the finals of the 2018 Xunlei Blockchain Application Global Challenge.As the only team that involves undergraduates, Designer consists of team coach Dr. CHEN Jianhai, team leader and PhD student WANG Bei, and three sophomores XU Xiaowen, LI Jueyu and FU Bo from ZJU’s College of Computer Science and T...

XIE Zhenye, a postgraduate student of the Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University, won gold in the men’s 200m event with a time of 20.25 seconds on the first day of competition at the inaugural Athletics World Cup Saturday in London.The 24-year-old sprinter beat South Africa’s Luxolo Adams (20.45 seconds) and American Ameer Webb (20.51 seconds). The two-day event features eight of the top countries competing in all distances from 100- to 1,500-meter, plus eight field events. Each...

The 2018 Marine Science Joint Summer School kicked off in the Ocean College on July 13. Over 60 participants attended the opening ceremony, and were warmly welcomed by Prof. LI Chunfeng, chair of Department of Marine Science. "I’m quite delighted to welcome students and teachers from Bandung Institute of Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) to our University. I hope all of them will learn something from this program and enjoy t...

Unable to carry signals based on sights and sounds to the genes that record memories, a broken shuttle protein may hinder learning in patients with intellectual disability, schizophrenia and autism. This is the implication of a study conducted by researchers from ZJU School of Medicine and NYU School of Medicine, which was published in the June 22, 2018 online issue of Nature Communications.Specifically, the research team found that mice engineered to lack the gene for the γCaMKII shuttle ...

Recently the School of Software Technology launched the Zhejiang University International Education-Research-Industry Program (ZIERIP), which integrates academic and cultural activities at ZJU and internship at top tech companies in China. The program is open to master's and PhD students of top universities in the world, and this year’s participants include students from Stanford University, National University of Singapore, Imperial College London and many others.The fi...

FEATURE STORYFor leading ophthalmologist YAO Ke, accolades are flattering but the greatest reward is found in scientific progress and improving people's lives...On June 16, exciting news arrived from Spain.During the 36th World Ophthalmology Congress, the President of the Chinese Ophthalmological Society, a specialty society of the Chinese Medical Association, Prof. YAO Ke, from the Eye Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of ZJU School of Medicine became a member of the Academ...