ShanghaiTech University China
Overview
Tackling China’s Challenges through Science and Technology
ShanghaiTech is a young resource-rich university with a modern residential campus in the heart of Shanghai Pudong’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. With an academic focus on STEM research, ShanghaiTech is committed to serving China’s national challenges in economic and social development with the focus on science and technology, and nurturing the next generation of innovative scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.
With the backing and support of Shanghai Municipal Government and Chinese Academy of Sciences, ShanghaiTech’s six schools and five research institutes are committed to tackling the challenges that China and the world are facing in the fields of energy, materials, biology, environment, human health, information technology and mathematics.
Addressing pressing challenges
ShanghaiTech is dedicated to be a research university of academic excellence and a dynamic people centered hub where innovative research, education, and community service meet to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to learning and to solving global challenges.
Located in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, ShanghaiTech is close to various industries and venture companies. It is also near several large science facilities, including the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the National Facility of Protein Science in Shanghai, the National Drug Screening Platform and the Shanghai Center for Microsatellites. Over 700,000 square meters in area, its campus was designed to be faculty and student oriented and to facilitate interaction and integration.
Focusing on science and technology, ShanghaiTech University comprises six schools — the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST), the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST), the School of Biochemical Engineering(BME), the School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM), and the School of Creativity and Art (SCA) — and five research institutes — the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS), the iHuman Institute, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Institute of Humanities, Institute of Carbon Neutrality — and one Research Hospital (also called as Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center) and one center for Transformative Science.
Investing in people
The university is forming a top-tier faculty of 1,000 professors, including 500 tenured or tenure-track faculty (recruited globally) and 500 distinguished professors-in-residence from CAS or other prestigious universities or institutes. ShanghaiTech’s innovative university-wide tenure-track system attracts talented faculty with a wealth of experience from around the world, nearly 20% are foreign nationals and more than 90% of the faculty earned their PhD abroad, including four Nobel laureates, ten National Academy of Sciences (USA) members, seven fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Science s, two Royal Society (UK) fellows, thirty-seven CAS members and five Chinese Academy of Engineering members.
ShanghaiTech offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. It will eventually have 2,000 undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate students (including 3,000 PhD candidates).
ShanghaiTech aims to nurture future leading scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs. At ShanghaiTech, residential colleges work closely with schools to foster students’ moral integrity, academic capabilities and innovative spirit. Students are encouraged to investigate the challenges China faces, to explore cutting-edge research areas and high-tech industries, and to implement their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas.
Advancing research through collaboration
By encouraging an interdisciplinary approach and the integration of university and national research facilities, the university aims to form a complete innovation value chain, which will drive industrial development through the advancement of science.
ShanghaiTech is actively engaged in the globalization of education. It has extensive collaborations with University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, MIT, Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Padova. To break down barriers between research and industry, ShanghaiTech collaborates closely with domestic and international high-tech companies in joint research and development and student training.
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Research
Date range: 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2023
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for ShanghaiTech University published between 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
| Count | Share |
|---|---|
| 324 | 89.69 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
| Subject | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Biological sciences | 102 | 21.53 |
| Chemistry | 163 | 51.10 |
| Earth & environmental sciences | 1 | 0.09 |
| Health sciences | 19 | 2.70 |
| Physical sciences | 131 | 43.95 |
Share output for the past 5 years
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36.63 | 52.99 | 70.26 | 72.05 | 97.48 |
Compare ShanghaiTech University with other institutions
*Note: 2022 data contains Share for article affiliations from newly added health-science journals.
Highlight of the month
Double-clicking on novel drug leads
© Andrew Brookes/Image Source/Getty Images
Several promising drug leads have been identified using a high-throughput method for testing large libraries of molecules made using ‘double-click’ chemistry.
Click reactions are highly dependable chemical transformations. They allow simple molecules to be clipped together to make complex new structures with potentially valuable properties.
A method that allows two click reactions to be done in tandem has recently been developed. But the libraries of new molecules that can be made using this double-click chemistry are so large that it is challenging to analyse them all.
Now, a team co-led by researchers from ShanghaiTech University in China has coupled the double-click reaction with rapid analysis based on affinity selection mass spectrometry and functional screening.
From a library of nearly 40,000 molecules, the team identified candidates that bind the glucagon-like-peptide-1 receptor, which is a target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes.
References
- PNAS 120, e2220767120 (2023). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2220767120
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Collaboration
Date range: 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2023
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 71.77% Domestic (241 institutions)
- 28.23% International (300 institutions)
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with ShanghaiTech University by Share*
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ShanghaiTech University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
(100.96)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
(44.55)
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ShanghaiTech University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
(15.86)
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ShanghaiTech University and Fudan University
(15.68)
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ShanghaiTech University and Tsinghua University
(12.14)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
(8.33)
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ShanghaiTech University and Nanjing University (NJU)
(7.59)
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ShanghaiTech University and Zhejiang University (ZJU)
(6.71)
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ShanghaiTech University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
(5.69)
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ShanghaiTech University and Jilin University (JLU)
(5.15)
Top 10 international collaborators with ShanghaiTech University by Share*
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ShanghaiTech University and Max Planck Society
(5.85)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Oxford
(5.38)
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ShanghaiTech University and Stanford University
(4.92)
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ShanghaiTech University and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
(3.35)
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ShanghaiTech University and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
(3.25)
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ShanghaiTech University and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
(2.62)
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ShanghaiTech University and Yale University
(2.56)
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ShanghaiTech University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
(2.47)
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ShanghaiTech University and Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA)
(2.36)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Zaragoza (Unizar)
(2.21)
Relationships
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
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