ZJU team clinches the first prize in ASC24 Student Supercomputing Challenge
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On April 13, 2024, the ZJU Supercomputing Team won the First Prize and the Highest LINPACK award in the final round of the 2024 ASC (ASC24) Student Supercomputing Competition. This marks the second consecutive year that the ZJU Supercomputing Team has achieved the world’s highest performance in the HPL event. The team is composed of five students from the School of Computer Science and Technology, namely QIAN Xingjian (team leader), CHEN Kaiqi, XIE Jun, GENG Hua, and HUANG Jinjun, under the gui...
The first SMA child diagnosed through newborn genetic screening in China and treated before onset
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2024-04-29
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In February, Bei Bei's parents took Bei Bei to the Genetics and Metabolism Department of the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (ZCH) for a follow-up visit and expressed their heartfelt thanks to the medical team that diagnosed and treated their daughter. Bei Bei is a baby born in the spring of 2022. The arrival of their daughter filled the young parents with great happiness. After Bei Bei was born, besides routine newborn screening collecting three drops ...
Zhejiang University forges deeper ties with Singapore University of Technology and Design
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2024-04-27
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Zhejiang University has taken significant strides in bolstering its collaborative efforts with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Led by REN Shaobo, Chairman of the Zhejiang University Council, a high-level delegation embarked on a visit to SUTD April 21 to 22. The pinnacle of this visit was marked by a momentous event on the afternoon of April 22, where REN Shaobo and Chong Tow Chong, President of SUTD, came together in the presence of the esteemed Ministers of Education ...
Chinese and German scientists discover ultrafast Kapitza-Dirac effect
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2024-04-26
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Recently, a collaboration team by Chinese and German scientists has unraveled the enigma of ultrafast phase evolution of an electron wavepacket. Prof. Reinhard Dörner from Goethe University, Prof. LIN Kang from Zhejiang University and their colleagues just published their findings entitled “Ultrafast Kapitza-Dirac effect” in Science on 29 March.Fig. 1. Prof. Reinhard Dörner and Prof. LIN KangElectron is one of the simplest and most fundamental particles. Interestingly, the electron behave...
President DU Jiangfeng leads a delegation to visit Italy
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2024-04-24
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DU Jiangfeng, President of Zhejiang University, led a delegation on a tour to Italy from April 15 to 18, marking a significant stride in international collaboration. Their itinerary was rich in initiatives aimed at fostering academic ties and promoting cultural exchanges. At the Sapienza University of Rome, DU Jiangfeng engaged in a series of in-depth discussions with Giorgio Parisi, the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, regarding potential collaborations in fields such as quantum infor...
ZJU collaborates in curating China’s national pavilion at 60th Venice Biennale
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2024-04-24
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China’s national pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition, unveiled on April 18 in Venice, embraces the theme “Atlas: Harmony in Diversity”. Through this thematic lens, it explores the concepts of “gathering, converging, collecting, or assembling,” aiming to convey the values of harmony and beauty rooted in Chinese culture.In her opening address, Laura Fincato, Italy’s former Deputy Foreign Minister and a committee member of the Celebrations of the 700th Anniversary of the death o...
Better batteries for cold weather
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2024-04-22
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A breakthrough in electrolyte design has enabled battery charging at very low temperatures and at unprecedented speed.A new electrolyte designed by Zhejiang University researchers enables lithium-ion batteries to be charged at temperatures between –70 °C to 60 °C, and reach up to 80% capacity within 10 minutes at room temperature. Their findings were published in Nature1 in February. Lithium-ion pouch battery in researchLithium-ion batteries, which power electric vehicles and most of...
ZJU scientists conduct an informative network meta-analysis of the metabolic effect of antipsychotics and mood stabilizers among BD patients
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2024-04-19
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Bipolar disorder is a severe and disabling psychiatric disorderwith the potentialfor adverse outcomes, such as suicide, if patients do not receive standardized therapeutics. The most commonly used pharmacotherapies for bipolar disorder (BD)are antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, which may cause metabolic abnormalities such as insulin resistance and hyperlipemia.Recently, Prof. HU Shaohua’s and Assistant Researcher LU Jing’s team at the First Affiliated Hospi...
ZJU scholar wins APASL 2024 Kyoto Travel Award
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2024-04-18
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Dr. CAO Hongcui, a professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU), was honored with the prestigious Travel Award APASL 2024 Kyoto at the 33rd Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Annual Meeting, which took place from March 27-31, 2024, in Kyoto, Japan.Left: Dr. CAO Hongcui; Right: Prof. Shuichiro Shiina, President of APASL 2024This accolade was in recognition of her team's contribution, which stood out from 2,300 abstracts...
GU Chenhui: scientific research is a process of self-reflection and collaborative learning.
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2024-04-16
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GU Chenhui, a second-year doctoral student from the School of Medicine, focuses on basic research and technological transformation of naturally derived vesicles in the musculoskeletal system. He has published six papers as the first/corresponding author in high-level journals such as Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, and JACS. He has applied for 17 national invention patents, with three already authorized, and has co-invented the patent Nano Platelets with his advisor, which has entered clinical ap...