On September 9th, the world-renowned academic journal Nucleic Acids Research (IF=9.202) published online the research paper by the team led by Professor Wu Min from School of Life Sciences at Wuhan University. It is discovered that E3 ubiquitin protein ligaseSPOP/CUL3 compound participates in the regulation and control of the alternative splicing of mRNA through the ubiquitination of histone me...

On September 8th, Cell Chemical Biology published the latest research findings on the Ebola Virus by Zhou Xiang’s research group from School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University and Zhang Bo’s research group from Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS. The article, titled “Chemical Targeting of a G-quadruplex RNA in the Ebola Virus L Gene”, provides the first evidence that G-quad...

During August 26th till September 9th, the second session of the Biological Diversity Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) predatory committee was held at the UN headquarters in New York. Professor Qin Tianbao attended this meeting as the legal consultant of Chinese delegation, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Oceanic Administration. Professor Qin is th...

On August 30th, the world- renowned academic journal Cell Research (cell research, IF=14.812) published online the research paper co-authored by Song Baoliang’s research group from School of Life Sciences of Wuhan University and Yan Yan’s research group of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Fudan University (Cell Res.2016 Aug 30 doi: 10.1038/cr.2016.101.). This paper titled Genome edi...

On 18th July, CAS member Prof. Shu Hongbing and his research group published their research achievements on the leading journal Nature Immunology. The paper entitled iRhom2 is essential for innate immunity to DNA viruses by mediating trafficking and stability of the adaptor STING demonstrates the latest research findings in this field. This research is conducted by doctoral candidate Luo Wei...

From June 22nd to June 26th, the fifteenth Robocon was held successfully in Zoucheng, Shandong Province. In this competition, the robot team of WHU won the first prize, Best Design and Best Guide Teacher. This has been the fourth time for WHU team to win the first prize of this contest. A group photo of WHU team membersRobocon adopts a similar knockout system as foo...

Established by BioMed Central (BMC), a UK-based scientific publisher, and the Global Health Institute of Wuhan University, the open access journal Global Heath Research and Policy was formally launched on June 16 2016.Global Heath Research and Policy aims at disseminating high quality research to improve regional and global health and promote health equality. Feng Youmei, executive president ...

On 1st June. Professor Li Hongliang and his research group published online their latest research findings on Nature Communications. The papers make cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure more widely understood by the people and may become a new breakthrough in clinical treatment of heart failure.The two papers are entitled The ubiquitin E3 ligase TRAF6 exacerbates pathological cardiac hypertr...

On May 23, 2016, the first forum “Innovation Development﹒Maker﹒Crowd innovating” was held at Economics and Management School, WHU. The forum was a dissertation proposal meeting for a major project led by Prof. Liyanping, Associate Dean of the Economics and Management School, under the title “Maker Role in the Chinese Innovation Driven Development and Strategic Research for Crowd innovating...

Recently, Dr. Zhang Jiujun, an alumnus of Wuhan University, was elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Zhang is the Canada Research Chair of the Canadian National Research Council (NRC), a member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the founder, chairman and president of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES).The Fellowsh...