
On October 22, US News and World Report released the Best Global Universities and Subjects Rankings for 2020, in which Tianjin University’s Mechanical Engineering program ranked 11th globally, followed by Princeton University (12th) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (13th).US News adopts the general definition of Mechanical Engineering, covering subjects such as Energy Power, Machinery...

On October 25, the 2019 Global Infrastructural Projects Forum was held in Changsha. More than 400 elites from relevant political, academic and industry sectors participated.The forum held in-depth discussions and interactions on hot issues of global infrastructural projects. The main topics included multinational engineering company governance and global management, international engineering ma...

On October 24,Tianjin University and Hunan provincial people's government signed a strategic cooperation agreementin Changsha.The two parties will focus on Hunan provincial technological innovation and development as well as its strategy, integrate resources, and carry out all-round cooperation in the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, education, talent training, an...

With the long-term excessive and frequent use of pesticides, the problem of pesticide-resistance has become increasingly acute, which has brought huge economic losses to agriculture. It’s urgent to understand how these pesticides work and the mechanism of pesticide-resistance. A study by Prof. Yuchi’s team from Tianjin University’s School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology identified t...

Ion channels are important drug targets as well as pesticide targets. A research team led by Prof. Yuchi from School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology discovered a new phosphorylation regulation mechanism on calcium channels. Their results have been published in the journal BMC Biology entitled Crystal structure of diamondback moth ryanodine receptor Repeat34 domain reveals insect-specif...

Tianjin University scientists have invented a new technology pertinent to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-free cryopreservation of Chondrocytes based on the zwitterionic molecule and polymers as cryoprotectants (CPAs), which is the first of its kind in the world. The paper was published in Macromolecules.This technology applies to cryopreservechondrocytes. The new CPAs are non-cytotoxic and present n...