Research News
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Novel Finding of FOXP3+ Macrophage Which Represses Acute Ischemic Stroke-induced Neural Inflammation by Zhengqi Lu's Group
Recently, Professor Zhengqi Lu's group from the Department of Neurology, Mental and Neurological Disease Research Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, published the latest original research entitled “FOXP3+ macrophage represses acute ischemic stroke-induced neural inflammation”in Autophagy. The study found that FOXP3+ macrophages suppressed acute ischemic stroke-in...
October 12, 2022
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Pacific Rim Health Innovations Conference (PRHIC) 2022 Held in FAH-SYSU
The Pacific Rim Health Innovations Conference (PRHIC) 2022 co-organized by The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (FAH-SYSU) and the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) was successfully held in the hospital from September 21 to 24.
September 24, 2022
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Professors Tao Ding/Guo-Bao Tian's team found the mechanism of determination of lung microbiota
The lungs were once believed to be a sterile environment, but in recent years, metagenomics studies confirmed the presence of commensal bacteria in the lungs of healthy individuals. The lungs or lower respiratory tract is linked to the upper respiratory tract and the oral cavity, and several studies have reported that the microbes in the nasal and oral cavity are involved in the formation of th...
September 8, 2022
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SYSU-led team uncovers a critical role of meningeal lymphatic vessels in the sex difference of stress susceptibility
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders with the highest disability, affecting about 4.4% of the global population. Women are more likely to be affected by depression and develop more severe depressive symptoms than men, but the underlying mechanisms that contribute to sex difference of depression remain unclear. The recently rediscovered meningeal lymphatic vessels are immune str...
August 31, 2022
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New progress on radiation-induced brain necrosis by Prof. Yamei Tang's team
Radiotherapy (RT) is an integral modality in the treatment of head and neck cancers (HNC), especially for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is prevalent in Southern China. However, radiation may result in brain necrosis, a severe, irreversible or even life-threatening cerebral complication, since healthy brain tissue in or around the RT fields could be damaged. The optimal timing of initiating me...
August 18, 2022