Recently, Professor Deng Zixin was elected as the new chairman of the International Committee for Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms GIM-IC), which was the first time for a Chinese scientist to chair in GIM-IC.GIM-IC is composed of 28 internationally renowned experts from 17 countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada and China. Each chairman is elected for a term of s...

Pentostatin is the first-line drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of leukemia. Vidarabine is widely used in clinical treatment to diseases caused by herpes virus, cytomegalovirus and so on. Both of these drugs are accompanied by the same Streptomyces, however, the biosynthetic mechanism underlying has been long in the dark. until WHU scholars brought it to t...

A group of scientists including Jiang Jianxin from the Department of Hepatic Surgery of Renmin Hospital conducted a joint research and recently published its findings in the prestigious “Clinical Cancer Research” journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The project was funded by The National Natural Science Foundation of China and was the collective effort of Jiang and ...

Spatial Data Mining, an English monograph led by academician Li Deren has recently snatched the crown of Springer’s ranking list of “Focusing on Chinese Scientific Research” in the area of computer science. (Springer: a world famous publishing company in Germany). This is a book co-written by Chinese scholars, Li Deren and Li Deyi, members of Chinese Academy of Science, and their student Pro...

On February 21st, Nature Medicine (IF=30.357) published the latest findings from Professor Li Hongliang’s research group. The research demonstrated for the first time that CASP8 and FADD-like apoptosis regulator (CFLAR), an important protein with innate immunity, is a key suppressor in the disease progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). This finding is of great importance to the cl...

On January 9th, six projects by Wuhan University (WHU) were awarded State Science and Technology Awards at the 2016 National Science and Technology Awards Conference held at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Two of the six projects hosted by WHU won the second prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award. The remaining four projects also set remarkable records, including a first ...

According to the data released by Thomson Reuters on 15th January, the discipline of molecule-biology and genetics in Wuhan University has edged into the top 1% on ESI（Essential Science Indicators）ranking list. So far, there are 15 ESI disciplines in Wuhan University.  There are 5361 institutes on this ranking list, 197 among which are from Chinese mainland. In contrast of the data in Novembe...

Nature Communications published the research outcome of Prof. Fu Lei’s team from College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences online, which concern twinned growth behavior of two-dimensional materials. This research result is expected to become a new core technology on fabricating heterostructure and superlattice materials. The paper is entitled Twinned Growth Behavior of Two-Dimensional M...

In mid-November, Associate Professor Sun Yongqiang gave a lecture on “structural equation modeling—quantitative analysis in social science research” in WHU School of Information Management (SIM). Professor Sun first introduced the appearance and development of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). SEM is now a widely applied strategy in social science researches. It was well established in t...

On December 9th, European Heart Journal, one authoritative journal of its field, ran a long feature entitled The Institute of Model Animal of Wuhan University, China——A center of scientific innovation leading the quest to conquer cardio metabolic diseases. The article introduces the development and research achievements of The Institute of Model Animal of Wuhan University (IMA) over the past ...