Leading Chinese scientist Sun Fanglin, director at Tongji University, has died aged 58 after an undisclosed illness. His work on cell aging and tumor formation, including discovering pathways to reverse drug resistance, significantly contributed to new cancer treatments and cell therapies.
Li, former head of Microsoft AI Asia's GenAI Group, joins Tongji University as a distinguished tenured professor at its Institute of AI for Engineering after returning to China.
A top Chinese university has taken disciplinary action against its leading cancer researcher after finding academic misconduct in a 2025 Nature study. The study, which claimed that starving cancer cells of valine – a building block of proteins found in food – could trigger DNA damage and slow tumour growth, contained problematic data in 14 of its 15 figures, Shanghai-based Tongji University said in an official statement on Wednesday. The team, led by Wang Ping, dean of the School of Life...
