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09.25 2025Nankai University-Developed Novel Anti-Tumor Drug Approved for the Phase III Clinical Trial
ACT001， anovel anti-tumor drug candidate, invented by a research team led by Professor Chen Yue from the College of Chemistry and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University, has been approved by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to enter the Phase III clinical trial, based on thepromising results from its Phase IIb clinicalstudy.ACT001, a novel anti-tumor drug independently developed by Professor Chen’s team over 15 years, is capable of cros
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09.22 2025Nankai University Research Team Publishes Groundbreaking Study in Science
Recently, a research team led by Eiichi Nakamura, Chair Professor at Nankai University, published their latest findings titled “Rapid, Low-temperature Nanodiamond Formation by Electron-beam Activation of Adamantane C–H Bonds” in Science.Professor Nakamura’s team utilized an organic molecular precursor with a cage-like diamondoid framework containing 10 carbon atoms. By applyingelectron-beam irradiation for seconds to minutes under vacuum conditions at room temperature or lower, they successfully
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09.18 2025Nankai University Research Team Makes Breakthrough in Room-Temperature 2D Topological Magnetic Materials Design
A research team has achieved a major breakthrough in the design and development of room-temperature two-dimensional (2D) vdW topological magnetic materials. Their findings appear in the paper titled “Intercalation-Engineered Out-of-Plane Polarized van der Waals Ferromagnetic Superlattice with Room-Temperature Néel-Type Skyrmion”, published inACS Nanoon September 4, 2025. The work was led by Professor Xuewen Fu from the Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the School of Physics, Nankai Uni
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07.10 2025Nankai University Research Team Makes Breakthrough in Mechanism of Crossing BBB
Recently, a research team led by Professors Wang Lei and Feng Lu from the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases/ TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Nankai University has made a major breakthrough in the study of the blood–brain barrier (BBB).
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07.03 2025Nankai University Team Achieves World’s First Motor Function Restoration in Impaired Limbs via Interventional BCI
Recently, a research team led by Professor Duan Feng of Nankai University has successfully completed the world’s first clinical trial using an interventional brain-computer interface (BCI) to assist in the motor function restoration in a paralyzed limb. The breakthrough enabled a hemiplegic patient to regain mobility in the affected limb.
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06.19 2025Nankai University Team Makes Breakthroughs in Perturbation Field Theory and Hadron Structure
On June 5, the team led by Prof. Yu-Ming Wangfromthe School of Physics of Nankai University made a breakthrough in the research fieldof perturbation field theory and hadron structure. Theirfindings were published in Physical Review Letters, a top academic journal in the field of physics, under the title of “Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Prediction for the Pion Form Factor”.Yu-Ming Wangtogether with the twodoctoral students Bo-XuanandHui-XinYu in his group, colloboratedclosely with Prof. Yao
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06.18 2025Nankai University Team Makes Breakthrough in the Field of Antimony Selenosulfide Solar Cells
On June 9, Nature Energy published online the important progress made by the research group led by Prof. Zhang Yi of the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering of Nankai University, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Chen Tao of the University of Science and Technology of China, and the team of Prof. Liu Shengzhong of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the field of antimony selenosulfide solar cells.The study is entitled Carrier manageme
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06.16 2025Nankai University Team Successfully Develops Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction Algorithm
An important research result entitled “Deep-learning-based single-domain and multidomain protein structure prediction with D-I-TASSER” was published in Nature Biotechnologyon May 23 with Professor Zheng Wei from the School of Statistics and Data Science of Nankai University as the first author.This study developed D-I-TASSER, a protein structure prediction algorithm that integrates deep learning spatial constraints and statistical energy functions, to achieve highly accurate protein structure pr
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05.21 2025Nankai University’s Neuroscience and Behavior Discipline Added to ESI Global Top 1%
According to the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI)data released by Clarivate, Nankai University’s Neuroscience and Behavior discipline has newly enteredthe top 1% globally, becoming the 18th discipline to rank among the ESI global top 1%.The 18 disciplines at Nankai University currently ranked in the ESI global top 1% are: Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics, Engineering, Environment/Ecology, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Clinical Medicine, Computer Science,
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04.24 2025Nankai University Team Develops Genetically Engineered Bacteria-sonodynamic Synergistic System to Enhance the Effect of Tumor Immunotherapy
Recently, a Nankai University research team has made important progress in the research on sonodynamic immunotherapy of tumors. They have developed an ultrasound-energizedintelligent biotherapeutic system combining genetically engineered bacteria with polymeric sonosensitizers, aiming to trigger a multidimensional immune cascade for potent antitumor immunotherapy. The research findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society(JACS).Costimulatory signals play a key role in t
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04.07 2025NKU Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Transition Metal Chemistry
A joint research team led byProf. SunZhongming fromNankai UniversityandProf. Zhao Lili from Nanjing Tech University has achieved a breakthrough in transition metal chemistry. Their research outcome, titled“Synthesis of Triple-Decker Sandwich Compounds Featuring a M–M Bond Through Cyclo-Bi₅and Cyclo-Sb₅Rings”, was recently published in Nature Chemistry. Using Zintl-phase compounds as Sb/Bi sources, the researchers successfully synthesized Cyclo-Bi₅and Cyclo-Sb₅rings and achieved thefirst-ever iso
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01.20 2025NKU Research Fellow Zhang Kai Received Dual Honors from ACS and CCS
Zhang Kai, a researchfellowfrom the College of Chemistry at Nankai University, was recently named one of the “Energy and Fuels Rising Stars” by the American Chemical Society (Energy Fuels) and awarded the “The Ninth Chinese Electrochemical Youth Award” at the 22nd National Electrochemical Congress. These accolades highlight his exceptional contributions to the development of critical materials and reaction mechanisms for long-life sodium-ion batteries.Currently serving as a researcher and docto
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12.19 2024NKU Scholar Makes Breakthrough in Topological Photonics
Nankai University NewsNetwork (Correspondent Cheng Dan). The phenomenon of vortices is pervasive in nature, manifesting across a broad range of scales, from the motion of particles at the quantum level to the distribution of stars in galaxies. In the field of optics, Allen and colleagues first demonstrated in 1992 that vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), thereby ushering in a new era in vortex beam research, bridging classical and quantum perspectives. This seminal discovery not o
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11.04 2024NKU Team Reaches with First-Ever Optical Vortex Ladder via Sisyphus Pumping
A research team led by Prof.Chen Zhigang and Prof. Xu Jingjun from Nankai University has made anadvancement in photonic graphene.They havepresenteda concept of “optical vortex ladder”(OVL)for stepwise generation of optical vortices through Sisyphus pumping of pseudospin modes in photonic graphenewith arbitrary integralorbital angular momentum.Furthermore, the OVLs may open exciting new avenues for application of topological singularities, with the potential to impact the fields of optical commun
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10.31 2024NKU Research Team Makes Breakthroughs in the Field of Stimulated Phonon Polaritons and Terahertz Nonlinear Optics
Recently, a research team led by Professors Wu Qiang, Lu Yao and Xu Jingjun atNankai University has made important progress in the study of stimulated phonon polaritons. The team demonstrated giant Kerr effect of terahertz waves by leveraging the strong coupling between terahertz waves and lattice vibrations in ionic crystals to excite the nonlinearity of stimulated phonon polaritons. This breakthrough offers new possibilities in advancing terahertz optical communications, optical computing, and
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