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CAS Key Laboratory of the Tissue Microenvironment and Tumor
Director: KONG Xiangyin
Deputy Director: QIAN Youcun, QIN Jun
Number of Principal Investigators: 19
Research Focuses:
Tumor genetic and epigenetic regulation and intervention
Immune regulation and tumor intervention
Stem cell research and tumor therapy
CAS Key Laboratory of Nutrition, Metabolism and Food Safety
Director: YING Hao
Deputy Director: ZHAI Qiwei, WU Aibo
Number of Principal Investigators: 18
Research Focuses:
Nutrient sensing signaling
Metabolic regulation networks
Nutritional intervention and metabolic diseases
Toxic mechanisms and metabolic pathways of food-borne hazards
Food safety risk assessment and pollution control
CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology
Director: WANG Sijia
Deputy Director: SHAO Zhen, ZHANG Guoqing, LI Haipeng
Number of Principal Investigators: 12
Research Focuses:
Big data analysis of complex gene expression regulation
System modeling and simulation for complex traits
Population genetic models and evolutionary analysis
Biomedical big data
CAS Engineering Laboratory for Nutrition
The CAS Engineering Laboratory for Nutrition is an important platform for the applied basic research work of the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health (SINH), CAS. It aims to promote a mutual interaction between basic research and applied basic research, focusing on industry tracks, such as Functional Foods, Food Safety, Skin Health, and AI and Digital Health. It provides high-quality scientific and technological support for the nutrition and health industry. Currently, it has established long-term strategic cooperation with leading enterprises.
Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences
The Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences serves as a life science think tank providing support to the national and local governments, academic and industrial communities as well as promoting public understanding of science in the fields of life sciences, biotechnology and the health industry. The Center offers services such as strategic decision support, frontier tracking, technology foresight, technology R&D and transfer, and scientific evaluation, etc. In addition, the Center promotes open cooperation with other high-level R&D think tanks for the benefit of society.
Bio-Med Big Data Center（https://www.biosino.org）
Bio-Med Big Data Center, affiliated with Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, CAS, is committed 1) to provide full-cycle big data services, including data collection and sharing, data management and analysis, to biomedical researches in CAS, Shanghai and across nation; 2) to build technical framework of data security, integration, sharing and mining, to expedite collaborative network for biomedical data resources; 3) to bolster national biomedical big data system, facilitating the paradigm shift for data-rich discovery in life sciences, accelerating the inter-disciplinary fusion between biology, medicine, mathematics, and information technology and increasing nation's "converge research" capacity.