On May 20, 2021, two research projects received the First Prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award.  One is led by Dr. XIAO Haipeng, Executive Vice President of SYSU and President of FAH-SYSU.  Dr. WEN Weiping, Vice President of FAH-SYSU, is the principal investigator for the other o…

Recently, Prof. Cheng Shouzhen, Director of Nursing Department of The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal. It recognizes her exceptional courage and devotion to victims of natural disaster, and exemplary service in the areas of public he…

An integrated clinical care team from The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University led by Dr. XIE Wen, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee, were awarded 2020 UNIVANTS Distinction for a novel discovery to improve patient safety in patients with indeterminant pulmonary nodules. Members of t…

Recently, Prof. Ming Kuang’s team from the Center of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University made a novel discovery of m6A epigenetic mechanisms involved in hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after radiofrequency ablation (RFA). They published a…

The longstanding enigma of itch exacerbations in atopic dermatitis (AD) was recently unveiled to be linked with environmental allergens. The new findings, published on January 21 in the journal Cell, point to a possible new target and strategy to help patients with AD cope with those episodes of acu…

On January 19, 2021, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University and Seirei Christopher University (SCU) co-organized the second collaborative seminar on nursing. Prof. Cheng Shouzhen, Director of Nursing, Prof. Chen Lifen, Deputy Director of Nursing, and head nurses from different special…

On January 22, 2021, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, the University of Oxford and the Chinese University of Hong Kong co-hosted a virtual round-table discussion on research collaboration.More than 50 experts attended the meeting, including Prof. Xiao Haipeng, Executive Vice Pr…

January 30, 2021 - A team led by The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, UT Southwestern Medical Center and BGI-Shenzhen have identified a new paradigm of stem cell competition between interspecies. This finding, reported online in Nature on January 28, 2021, paves the way for studyin…

With the Spring Festival just a couple of weeks away, staff at one major railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are getting prepared. But it's a different type of preparation compared to years past. CGTN's Omar Khan explains how one vaccination drive is providing a sense of assura…

 How to Better Protect Ourselves during the Spring Festival Travel Rush?With the Spring Festival approaching and the travel rush beginning, what should we do to protect ourselves? Mr. Zhang Zhoubin offered us some advice from the perspectives ofclothing, dining, living and traveling. Clothing: First…