Recently, the list of winners for the “Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award”, known as “China’s Premier Award for Intelligent Science and Technology” and the highest accolade in the field of artificial intelligence, was officially announced. Xiang Li, an associate professor at the College of Computer Science and the College of Cyber Science of Nankai University, was awarded the 2023 “Wu Wenjun Outstanding Youth Award for Artificial Intelligence”.According to the “Announ
The 39th Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Congress 2024 was held in Bali, Indonesia. As the most influential ophthalmology event in Asia, this Congress gathers top ophthalmology experts in the Asia-Pacific region todiscuss cutting-edge research achievements and technologies. Wang Yan, a well-known ophthalmologist and dean of the Institute of Ophthalmology of Nankai University, was invited to attend the meeting and madea report at the Congress.At the Congress, Professor Wang Yan gave
Recently, the 7th China Enterprise Reform and Development Summit and Press Conference for Results, hosted by China Enterprise Reform and Development Society, was held in Beijing. Outstanding achievements of the 7th China Enterprise Reform and Development Session were announced at the conference. The“Research on the Governance Quality of China’s Listed Financial Institutions - Analysis Based on the Governance Index of China’s Listed Companies” won the first prize. The project was primarily implem
The press conference for the world’s first ton-level mass production of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) was held at the lecture hall of Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. It was jointly hosted by YOCOF New Materials (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., Tianjin Tiankai Development Group Co., Ltd., Nankai University 21st Century Industrial Institute Co., Ltd., and Nankai University Science and Technology Park Co., Ltd.Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University; Chen Jun, Vice President and an academician
Current surface-controlled biofouling-based membrane technologies are retarded by short-run anti-biofouling performances. However, Professor Guo Xiaoyan and her team from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Nankai University have recently designed and reported a new type of dynamic fiber membrane. With ingenuity and intelligence in external and internal spatial structures, this new membrane can dynamically and continuously load and release D-tyrosine as a biologically friendly
February 22, the research team led by Shengquan Chen from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Nankai University published a paper entitled scCASE: accurate and interpretable enhancement for single-cell chromatin accessibility sequencing data in the famous international journal Nature Communications. This paper proposes scCASE, a single-cell chromatin accessibility sequencing (scCAS) data enhancement method based on non-negative matrix factorization which incorporates an iteratively updating c
According to the website of the Ministry of Finance, the World Bank announced important appointments. Zhang Wencai, who received a bachelor’s degree in World Economy in 1982 and a master’s degree in 1986 at Nankai University’s School of Economics, was appointed as the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the World Bank, responsible for institutional strategy, planning, budgeting, information technology services, and sanctions systems.Zhang Wencai currently serves as the V
Recently, the results of the Rank Prize, the UK’s top science award, have been announced. Liang Junzhong, a 1979 cohort alumnus who graduated from the Department of Physics at Nankai University, won the 2024 Rank Prize (optoelectronics) for his original innovative research on adaptive optics in the field of retinal microscopy imaging. His other research results have been widely applied to human eye aberration measurement, wavefront-guided individualized excimer vision correction, and multifocal
The 2024 China Jilin Ice Dragon Boat Open took place at Jiangbin Park in Jilin City, Jilin Province. The event attracted many excellent teams from home and abroad. In the fierce competition, Nankai University’s dragon boat team won the championship of the 100-meter, 200-meter straight track races and the aggregate score, the best results for the participating teams.In the winter dragon boat race of the 29th Jilin International Snow,Ice and Rime Festival held concurrently, Nankai University’s dra
The Award Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society decided that Wang Xiao-Ye, a researcher at the College of Chemistry of Nankai University, was awarded the “2023 Chinese Chemical Society Prize for Young Scientists”in recognition of his innovative achievements in new boron-doped organic optoelectronic materials.Wang Xiao-Yeis a researcher and doctoral supervisor at Nankai University. He graduated from Nankai University with a bachelor’s degree in 2009 and received a doctorate from Peking Univer
Recently, Professor Fu Xuewen’s team from the Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the School of Physics of Nankai University, in collaboration with the team of Professor Hou Zhipeng from South China Normal University, the team of Professor Yimei Zhu from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States and others, reported on the room-temperature high-density Néel-type magnetic skyrmions in room-temperature two-dimensional magnetic material Fe3-xGaTe2, and demonstrated novel physi
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a prevalent malignant tumor of the digestive tract, and it is one of the leading cancers in terms of both incidence and mortality. Chemotherapy resistance presents a substantial challenge in cancer treatment and is a major contributor to treatment failure.On January 30th, researchers led by Chen Quan from the College of Life Sciences at Nankai University, Du Lei from the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Hu Gang from the School of Statistics
Professor Chen Quan’s research group from the College of Life Sciences of Nankai University, Professor Xiong Wei’s research group from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Professor Wang Yong’s research group from the College of Life Sciences of Zhejiang University jointly published an online paper entitled “PAFAH2 suppresses synchronized ferroptosis to ameliorate acute kidney injury” in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. The paper reported on the transmission factors and reg
The Chinese Chemical Society announced the list of fellows of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS) in 2023. Professor Pang Dai-Wen of the College of Chemistry of Nankai University was elected as a fellow.Professor Pang Dai-Wen has studied quantum dots (QDs) for 23 years. He has pioneered the live-cell synthesis of QDs and the corresponding QD labeling technology, and broken through the site-specific quantitative biolabeling of single viruses, realizing the acquisition and analysis of multiple wea
Grüneisen parameter as an important parameter in condensed matter has great significance for measuring thermodynamics, elasticity, and inelasticity of matter. In the study of properties of condensed matter at high temperature and high pressure, the Grüneisen parameter links the elastic and thermal properties, playing a crucial role in constructing the equation of state of matter and studying thermodynamics under high pressure. In the pressurization experiment, due to the slow pressurization rate