On the morning of September 19, the unveiling ceremony of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Affiliated Pudong People’s Hospital (Preparatory) was held in the hospital’s lecture hall. Attending the ceremony were Chen Mu, First-Level Inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Zhang Difang, Deputy Governor of Pudong New District; and Fang Yong, Vice Chancellor o...

On September 12, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine officially inaugurated its Pudong Campus, a landmark achievement in Shanghai’s pursuit of educational modernization. This means the School ushers in a fresh chapter in its nearly 130 years of academic history and over 70 years of institutional development. It represents a major step forward in upgrading the School’s educational...

 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 ...