On April 24, Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (WHZJU) and Center for Cancer Biology (CCB) of Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the establishment of a single-cell multi-omics joint center, cultivate clinical scientists and medical experts with international perspectives and outstanding innovation capabilities, incubate and produce high-level scientific research achievements. The collaborative achievements will reall...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease stemming from the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic β-islet cells. The incidence of T1D is on the rise worldwide, with about 5 out of every 100 diabetes patients having T1D. Among children and adolescents, this proportion hits a staggering 80%-90%. Major efforts have focused on insulin and associated neoantigens as a putative autoantigen, which may, however, trigger frustratingly elusive and complex results. Therefore, there is a compelli...

The International Champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize 2023 were announced during the Awards Ceremony at the Frontiers Forum Live on April 27. Prof. GU Baojing from the Zhejiang University College of Environmental & Resource Sciences was one of the four recipients of the 1st edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize.GU Baojing engages in interdisciplinary research into resource and environmental management. His research article, entitled “Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than...

Pancreatic cancer is becoming an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality. The survival rate of pancreatic cancer has long been dismal. Because symptoms and signs of pancreatic cancer are mostly nonspecific, early diagnosis remains a major challenge. Only 15% of all cases are deemed resectable at diagnosis, while the remaining are already at more advanced stages. For locally advanced pancreatic cancer, radical resection is usually impossible because of significant tumor infiltration and vas...

On April 26, a delegation from Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), led by Elisabeth Crépon, vice-president for International Affairs and Dominique Rossin, vice-president for Education, visited Zhejiang University. HE Lianzhen, vice president of Zhejiang University met with the guests. HE Lianzhen extended her cordial welcome to the IP Paris delegation. She recalled the solid foundation of cooperation between the two sides and introduced the latest progress that Zhejiang University ...

On April 21, Prof. Prof. HE Lianzhen, vice president of Zhejiang University, met with Mr. Pit Heltmann, Consul-General of Germany in Shanghai.Prof. HE Lianzhen extended her warm welcome to Mr. Pit Heltmann and introduced the University’s cooperation with Germany as well as its global engagement strategy. She said that the University has long partnered with German universities and institutions and has achieved fruitful results in joint research, faculty and student exchanges, cultural communicat...

On April 19, a delegation of the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai, including consul general Tiziana D’Angelo, commercial consul Alessandra Palumbo, and director of Italian Cultural Institute in Shanghai Francesco D’Arelli, visited the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University. ZHOU Tianhua, vice president of Zhejiang University, LI Min, director of the Office of Global Engagement and LUO Yaozhi, dean of the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, met with ...

This spring saw the return after three years of international students and physicians to the campuses of the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU).Louie Wang, a medical student at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), was the first medical student that registered for a medical elective at SAHZU. He swiftly booked a flight to Hangzhou.The Department of Emergency Medicine at SAHZU, which is ranked fourth in emergency medicine in China, is where Louie Wan...

On July 22, 2020, an earthquake with moment magnitude Mw 7.8 occurred off the Shumagin Islands at depths from 25 to 40 km, but no evident tsunami signals were observed from deep-water DART stations offshore Alaska. About three months later, a magnitude Mw 7.6 earthquake struck this region again at depths from 5 to 40 km with aftershocks concentrating within the Pacific plate but straddling the megathrust fault. Long-period seismic moment tensor for the Mw 7.6 event indicated unusual 50° eastwar...

Polyamines are the compounds containing two or more amino groups. They are vital for the viability and growth of cells, and their homeostasis depends largely on two systems: the metabolic system, which regulates the synthesis and degradation of polyamines, and the transport system, which determines the distribution of cellular polyamines. As an essential compartment in the polyamine transport system, lysosomes play a critical role in balancing polyamine concentrations. The lysosomal transporter ...