At the "two sessions" of China's national legislature and top political advisory body, deputies have put forward proposals on improving elderly care services in areas such as strengthening health management, and expanding diversified elderly care services.Fan Xianqun, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), chancellor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and an academic...

From February 28 to March 2, 2025, the inaugural“Belt and Road” Eye Health Forum, the Shanghai Ophthalmology Forum, the 16th Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ophthalmology Forum, and the 5th International Forum on Thyroid Eye Disease were grandly held at the Shanghai International Convention Center. Jointly organized by theShanghai Medical Doctor Association, the Department of Ophthalmology of t...

Combining clinical and basic research, as well as integrating medical engineering with medical science, a "Medical Innovation Team" composed of six young and middle-aged national-level experts is exploring new strategies for the early diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases through interdisciplinary collaboration. Recently, the "Mechanisms and Interventions of Ischemic Cardiovascular...

From November 27 to 30, Vice Chancellor Zheng Junke led a delegation to visit Singapore. The visit included stops at key educational and research institutions such as the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Additionally, the delegation hosted the 2nd SJTUSM–NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medic...

On November 15, 2024, the team led by Dr. Cao Yu from Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Yu Ye’s team from China Pharmaceutical University, published a research paper in Science titled “Structural basis for inositol pyrophosphate gating of the phosphate channel XPR1.” This study utilizes cutting-edge cr...

On December 5, 2024 (Beijing time), Dengli Hong's research group from the College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, published a groundbreaking article in Nature titled "Fetal hepatocytes protect the HSPC genome via fetuin-A."The study reveals the mechanism of embryonic tissues protect the genomic stability of their stem cells and demonstrates that this mechanism is relat...