The research team led by Prof. Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at Zhejiang University, has located a brain circuit that, when activated in mice, transformed timid individuals into bold alpha mice that almost always prevailed in aggressive social encounters.     The study titled “History of winning remodels thalamo-PFC circuit to reinforce social dominance” was published in the journal Science. It used a technique called optogenetics, to pinpoint and ulti...

    The mechanism behind ischemic brain injury is extremely complicated. Previous studies by a research team led by Prof. Chen Zhong of the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, demonstrate that damaged mitochondria are cleared, thus attenuating brain injury, by mitophagy. However, the story behind mitophagy remains obscure, which poses a barrier to curing cerebral ischemia via mitophagy.    The current research carried out by the resear...

    Winners have been announced in the first Summer Photo Contest of Zhejiang University, hosted by the Office of International Relations in summer 2017. Out of 184 entries submitted in the contest, a total of 43 photographs have stood out, including three first-prize works and eight second-prize works.    The contest encourages students to record the best of their study abroad experience and aims to showcase the much valued significances of internati...

    The award ceremony of China Collegiate Computing Contest & the Mobile Application Innovation Contest 2017 took place on September 24 in Hangzhou. The Mobile Application Innovation Contest was co-hosted by Zhejiang University and the Apple Inc. As a major part of China Collegiate Computing Contest, the Mobile Application Innovation Contest aimed at encouraging students to apply innovative technology with the focus on hot issues and livelihood domains and cultivating st...

  Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, delivered a talk titled “Using electron microscopy to study the ribosome” as part of the Zhejiang University Global Lecture Series at Zhejiang University on September 28. The lecture was chaired by Prof. Feng Xinhua, Dean of the Life Sciences Institute.  Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan is the current president of the Royal Society. He was awarded the Louis Jeannette Prize for Medicine in 2007 and shared the No...

        On September 27, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, announced the official opening for construction of the core area of Zijin Innovation & Enterpreneurship Hub (ZIEH), one of the major industrial promotion projects. The investment of the project is projected to add up to 2.3 billion yuan. ZIEH will aim at exploring a new approach to university-government cooperation in an effort to seek new paths in terms of breaking the bottleneck of resources, opt...

    Breast cancer has long been one of the major diseases for women. Every year, at least 400,000 patients die of this cancer all over the world. Cases in China account for 12.2% of all newly diagnosed breast cancers and 9.6% of all deaths from breast cancer worldwide.      The research team led by Prof. Lin Aifu of the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, carries out relevant research in LncRNA. The Hippo pathway plays essential roles in organ s...

    On September 20, Edvard I. Moser, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014, gave a talk titled “Grid Cells and the Entorhinal Positioning System” at Zhejiang University.    Edvard Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist. He is currently a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the director of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU. In 2005, Pro...

    At the 25th CEEMAN Annual Conference on September 21, Alenka Braček Lalić, International Quality Accreditation (IQA) Director at the Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN), announced that the International Quality Accreditation was awarded to the School of Management, Zhejiang University, for its superb performance in key indicators. The School of Management has thus become the first one to acquire CEEMAN IQA in China.    ...

    The Zhejiang University delegation headed by Vice President LUO Weidong attended the 14th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention on September 15-18 in Yangon, Myanmar. The main theme was “An Opening Economy in Myanmar, A New Epoch in History”. Under the new economic structure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the “Belt & Road” Initiative, the convention served as a platform to collect new business ideas and exchange views on the direct...