Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University-School of Medicine, Tsinghua University

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Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University

2021-07-27

The Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology of Tsinghua University was organized and established by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. It is one of the first batch of 13 advanced innovation centers for Beijing universities. The center is supported and led by Tsinghua University and co-built with Beijing University of Technology. Tsinghua University is an important base for higher education, scientific research, and technology development in China. It shoulders the important responsibility of cultivating high-level talents, obtaining high-level scientific research results, and promoting the construction of the national economy for China. The structural biology team of Tsinghua University is based on its predecessors, condensing, growing, expanding and gradually demonstrating its international influence in this century-old historical opportunity. The first director of the center is Professor Yigong Shi, a world-renowned structural biologist. It currently has 25 independent laboratories, with more than 90 post-doctoral fellows and more than 200 doctoral candidates. The research work covers many frontier fields of modern structural biology, including Research on the structure and function of important biological macromolecules such as biological macromolecular machinery, disease-related membrane proteins, tumor suppressor factors, apoptosis regulatory proteins, and diabetes drug target proteins, and has done a series of internationally influential works.

Since 2015, the center has published 71 high-level research papers in Nature, Science and Cell with Tsinghua University as the corresponding author, which has had a large international impact and contributed to the development of structural biology in my country. contribute.

Relying on the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and integrating the strengths of Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Technology, the Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology provides an optimal carrier for the structural biology and health industry. Through the integration of multidisciplinary advantages, organic fusion technology and method development, basic scientific research application and later transformation, the center will be able to invent a series of original and far-reaching structural biology new technologies and methods in the next 5-10 years.

The main task of the center is to explore interdisciplinary, inter-university cooperation, cooperation between universities and local governments, organically integrate technology development, basic research, and transformation of results, and build a world-leading structural biology center for a long period of time. Influential and original scientific achievements, and on the basis of basic research and technological development, promote the development of health-related industries such as biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries in Beijing, and build a good platform for Chinese biologists to integrate into the international arena.

For a detailed introduction of the Advanced Innovation Center of Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, please refer to:

http://www.icsb.tsinghua.edu.cn/

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