2020/08/17
Cellular metabolism reprogramming is a major hallmark of cancer. For example, cancer cells preferentially convert glucose to lactate through glycolysis, even in the presence of oxygen, which provides more metabolites for cell proliferation. This aerobic glycolysis process plays important roles in tumorigenesis and tumor progression. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are defined as transcripts longe...
Tianjin University Researchers Reveal the Mode of Mechanism of the Best-selling Insecticides
2020/08/17
Diamide insecticides, developed by pesticide giants DuPont, Bayer and Syngenta, are among the most popular insecticides on the market, with annual sales >USD$2 billion. Diamide insecticides are considered safe for mammals and nontargeted beneficial insects, and are thus widely used to protect many types of crops, including vegetables, fruits and cottons. However, due to heavy usage, man...
Meeting Over Thousands of Miles: Cloud Classroom in SPST
2020/04/15
In terms of epidemic control and prevention, all teachers and students at the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (SPST) actively implemented the basic requirements of the Ministry of Education "Don’t go to class but continue to learn". Although they couldn’t be on the front line against the epidemic, the teachers and students at SPST hold on to their ow duty and carried out onlin...
SPST Launches Online Enrollment Promotion toward Hubei Province
2020/04/15
Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19, Tianjin University has shown great concern about college entrance examination candidates in Hubei province the hardest-hit province in China. On February 29, 2020, the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (SPST) together with the university’s Hubei Admissions Group held "Cloud Classroom of college entrance examination consultations” for students...
Green Pesticide Research from TJU Selected as ACS Editor’s Choice
2020/04/03
Recently "Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry" successively published two latest scientific findings on new targets for green pesticides by Professor Yuchi’s research team from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology. The two papers are titled Discovery of potential species-specific green insecticides targeting lepidopteran ryanodine receptor (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1...
Welcome letter from the Dean of SPST
2020/02/19
Dear Students and FacultyWelcome to a new semester at SPST and a new chapter in our family history with the implementation of remote education events and teaching instruments as a way to overcome some of the hardships imposed by the emergence of the novel corona virus epidemic. First and foremost, be clear that all the staff at SPST-TJU are working hard to figure out the best practice to move f...
Young Faculty Teaching Evaluation/Competition （SPST, 2019）
2019/12/04
SPST held the Young Faculty Teaching Evaluation/Competition successfully on Nov. 29 at 207 conference room of Building 24.Finally, based on the results from the evaluation committee, both CHEN Ruibing and LI Nan got the 1st prize. The 2nd prize was given to MEI Kunrong and HUANG Zhikang. WANG Yiwen, ZHAO Hongxia and LI Youxin got 3rd prize
2019/12/04
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in Brazil announces the result of the first call for proposals in 2019 under the SPRINT – São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative.The SPRINT aims at promoting the engagement of researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to furt...
2019/10/22
At 9 o'clock on October 16th, Prof. Frances H. Arnold, professor of Biochemistry & Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology and the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), was appointed as honorary professor at Tianjin University. The ceremony was held at the second floor of the Science Library.Professor Frances Arnold delivered lecture on the subjec...
The 3rd post-doctoral forum of SPST was held successfully
2019/10/14
On October 11th, 2019, the 3rd post-doctoral forum organized by the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (SPST) was successfully held in 406, No.24 Teaching Building. The forum was chaired by Dr. Dan Ma, the Tenney Postdoc of SPST. 10 Postdocs of SPST and more than 50 faculties and students attended this forum. Opening speech was given by Prof. Fumihiko Nakamura. Post-Doc forum com...
