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.

Article Count and Share for ShanghaiTech University
Count Share
324 89.69

Outputs by subject (Share)

Outputs by subject
Subject Count Share
102 21.53
163 51.10
1 0.09
19 2.70
131 43.95

Share output for the past 5 years

Share per year
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.


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References

  1. 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*

  1. ShanghaiTech University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (100.96)
    ShanghaiTech University37.82
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)63.14
  2. ShanghaiTech University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) (44.55)
    ShanghaiTech University22.02
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)22.53
  3. ShanghaiTech University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) (15.86)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)9.44
  4. ShanghaiTech University and Fudan University (15.68)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Fudan University
  5. ShanghaiTech University and Tsinghua University (12.14)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Tsinghua University
  6. ShanghaiTech University and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) (8.33)
    ShanghaiTech University
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  7. ShanghaiTech University and Nanjing University (NJU) (7.59)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Nanjing University (NJU)
  8. ShanghaiTech University and Zhejiang University (ZJU) (6.71)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Zhejiang University (ZJU)
  9. ShanghaiTech University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) (5.69)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
  10. ShanghaiTech University and Jilin University (JLU) (5.15)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Jilin University (JLU)

Top 10 international collaborators with ShanghaiTech University by Share*

  1. ShanghaiTech University and Max Planck Society (5.85)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Max Planck Society
  2. ShanghaiTech University and University of Oxford (5.38)
    ShanghaiTech University
    University of Oxford
  3. ShanghaiTech University and Stanford University (4.92)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Stanford University
  4. ShanghaiTech University and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) (3.35)
    ShanghaiTech University
    National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
  5. ShanghaiTech University and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (3.25)
    ShanghaiTech University
    French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
  6. ShanghaiTech University and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (2.62)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
  7. ShanghaiTech University and Yale University (2.56)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Yale University
  8. ShanghaiTech University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2.47)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  9. ShanghaiTech University and Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA) (2.36)
    ShanghaiTech University
    Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA)
  10. ShanghaiTech University and University of Zaragoza (Unizar) (2.21)
    ShanghaiTech University
    University of Zaragoza (Unizar)

*Share is the fractional count allocated to an institution for an article that takes into account the percentage of authors from that institution and the number of affiliated institutions that contributed to the article. The horizontal stacked bar charts above indicate the Share contributed by each institution in the bilateral collaboration. If the Share is not shown, hover over the bar to display it.

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