Source: School of Life Sciences

Young Professor He Xionglei, working in School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, has made significant progress with his research group in How Chromatin Structure Regulates DNA Mutations, and the findings were published in the journal of Science on March 9. This is the first time SYSU published a paper on Science as the leading organization over the past decade, achieving a historic breakthrough. Senior PhD student, Chen Xiaoshu, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at SYSU, worked as the lead author.

Science is one of the two most influential academic journals with the Impact Factor of 31.364, and papers published on this journal reveal the progress of international scientific research at the leading edge. Over the past 100 years, many symbolic achievements of science in the world first appeared in this journal. The successful publication of the paper by Professor He Xiongwei in Science is a new breakthrough for the University.

In recent years, under the direction of the goal to develop SYSU, School of Life Sciences has been devoting to the favorable environment for talents. We attract young elites together and try to strengthen our team. Meanwhile, to create a good environment for the outstanding young teachers to come to the fore, for the high-level talents to get together and grow up, we proactively make efforts to solve their worries and problems, helping them to concentrate themselves on teaching at the University.