A multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Svetoslav Chakarov from theCollege of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai Institute of Immunology, in collaboration with national and international research institutions, has published a landmark study inScience entitled“Septal LYVE1+ macrophages control adipocyte stem cell adipogenic potential.”This study uncovers a previous...

Crohn’s disease is a severe inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with no known cure. Individuals with Crohn’s disease face an increased risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), which significantly worsens symptoms. On August 22, 2025, a research paper titled “Veillonella intestinal colonization promotes C. difficile infection in Crohn’s disease” was published online in Cell Host & Microb...

The struggle between viruses and humans has been a protracted war spanning the course of life’s evolution. Viruses constantly assault the human body, causing numerous diseases, while the immune system fights back and gradually incorporates viral sequences into the genome, resulting in co-evolution. Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are “fossils” left in the chromosomes by ancient retroviruses t...

Recently, the Shanghai Regional Finals of the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition (2025) were held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. With the theme “I Dare to Venture, I Strive to Create,” the competition attracted more than 56,000 entries and over 229,000 participants in the Shanghai division. In the end, 425 projects from 35 universities advanced to the municipal ...

From August 6 to 9, ProfessorJiang Fan, Party Secretary of SJTUSM, and Professor Zhao Wenhua, Deputy Party Secretary, led a delegation to visit Macao and signed multiple cooperation agreements with the University of Macau and Macau University of Science and Technology. These agreements aim to strengthen in-depth cooperation between SJTU School of Medicine and Macao universities in areas such as...

On August 1, the opening ceremony of the 2025 Research Summer Camp of Hainan International Medical Center (HIMC) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, along with the fifth session of the “Bole Lecture Series,” was held in the atrium of HIMC’s first floor.The event was attended by Fu Zhu, Deputy Director of the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone Administratio...