
A research team led by ProfessorsChen Shuqi and Cheng Hua of Nankai University, in collaboration with Academician Liu Zhengyou and Professor Deng Weiyin of Wuhan University, haschallenged the conventionalunderstanding of lossin topological physics. By constructing a bilayer structure supporting pseudospin degrees of freedom and introducing only loss, the teamsuccessfully delocalized the topological boundarymodesthat were originally localized at ends or cornersinto the bulk lattice, realizing los

A pioneering study by the Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Team from the College of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University has brought new hope to women experiencing infertility due to age or unexplained causes. The research uncoveredthe age-related molecular clock—ribosomal dysregulation—behind the decline in female fertility after the age of 34. It also preliminarily validates thatrapamycin mayserve as a potential, safe, and effective t

A research team led by Professor Zhang Yan from the College of Life Sciences at Nankai University has recently achieved a major breakthrough in plant reproductive biology. The study revealed a key mechanism governing polarity establishment during pollen germination. The research, titled “Rab5 GTPases mediate the targeting of ROP signaling to establish polarity for pollen germination”, was published in the leading international journal Nature Plants.Pollen germination is the critical first step i

On October 15, Prof. Zhao Minggang from the School of Physics, Nankai University (NKU), in collaboration with Prof.Dong Liaoyuan and Li Haibo from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as Prof. Ke Baiqian from Zhengzhou University, achieved a breakthrough in experimental measurements of low-energy QCD, based on data samples collected near the strange-charmed meson threshold by the BESIII experiment. The related findings, entitled “Study of φ→K⁺K⁻and K_S^0-K_L

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Pan Leiting and Prof. Xu Jingjun from the School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, in collaboration with Prof. Xu Ke’s research group at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, published a paper titled “Fast and robust drift correction for single-molecule localization microscopy” inNature Communications. The study introduces theNearest Paired Cloud (NPC) drift correction algorithm relying exclusively on coordinate inf

ACT001, anovel anti-tumor drug candidate, invented by a research team led by Professor Chen Yue from the College of Chemistry and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University, has been approved by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to enter the Phase III clinical trial, based on thepromising results from its Phase IIb clinicalstudy.ACT001, a novel anti-tumor drug independently developed by Professor Chen’s team over 15 years, is capable of cros

Recently, a research team led by Eiichi Nakamura, Chair Professor at Nankai University, published their latest findings titled “Rapid, Low-temperature Nanodiamond Formation by Electron-beam Activation of Adamantane C–H Bonds” in Science.Professor Nakamura’s team utilized an organic molecular precursor with a cage-like diamondoid framework containing 10 carbon atoms. By applyingelectron-beam irradiation for seconds to minutes under vacuum conditions at room temperature or lower, they successfully

A research team has achieved a major breakthrough in the design and development of room-temperature two-dimensional (2D) vdW topological magnetic materials. Their findings appear in the paper titled “Intercalation-Engineered Out-of-Plane Polarized van der Waals Ferromagnetic Superlattice with Room-Temperature Néel-Type Skyrmion”, published inACS Nanoon September 4, 2025. The work was led by Professor Xuewen Fu from the Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the School of Physics, Nankai Uni

Recently, a research team led by Professors Wang Lei and Feng Lu from the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases/ TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Nankai University has made a major breakthrough in the study of the blood–brain barrier (BBB).

Recently, a research team led by Professor Duan Feng of Nankai University has successfully completed the world’s first clinical trial using an interventional brain-computer interface (BCI) to assist in the motor function restoration in a paralyzed limb. The breakthrough enabled a hemiplegic patient to regain mobility in the affected limb.

On June 5, the team led by Prof. Yu-Ming Wangfromthe School of Physics of Nankai University made a breakthrough in the research fieldof perturbation field theory and hadron structure. Theirfindings were published in Physical Review Letters, a top academic journal in the field of physics, under the title of “Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Prediction for the Pion Form Factor”.Yu-Ming Wangtogether with the twodoctoral students Bo-XuanandHui-XinYu in his group, colloboratedclosely with Prof. Yao

On June 9, Nature Energy published online the important progress made by the research group led by Prof. Zhang Yi of the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering of Nankai University, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Chen Tao of the University of Science and Technology of China, and the team of Prof. Liu Shengzhong of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the field of antimony selenosulfide solar cells.The study is entitled Carrier manageme

An important research result entitled “Deep-learning-based single-domain and multidomain protein structure prediction with D-I-TASSER” was published in Nature Biotechnologyon May 23 with Professor Zheng Wei from the School of Statistics and Data Science of Nankai University as the first author.This study developed D-I-TASSER, a protein structure prediction algorithm that integrates deep learning spatial constraints and statistical energy functions, to achieve highly accurate protein structure pr

According to the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI)data released by Clarivate, Nankai University’s Neuroscience and Behavior discipline has newly enteredthe top 1% globally, becoming the 18th discipline to rank among the ESI global top 1%.The 18 disciplines at Nankai University currently ranked in the ESI global top 1% are: Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics, Engineering, Environment/Ecology, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Clinical Medicine, Computer Science,

Recently, a Nankai University research team has made important progress in the research on sonodynamic immunotherapy of tumors. They have developed an ultrasound-energizedintelligent biotherapeutic system combining genetically engineered bacteria with polymeric sonosensitizers, aiming to trigger a multidimensional immune cascade for potent antitumor immunotherapy. The research findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society(JACS).Costimulatory signals play a key role in t