On May 15, SJTU-Yale Symposium on Biomedical Data Science was held in the Translational Medicine Building, SJTU. Experts from both universities attended the meeting.

Ji Shaoling, Secretary of Party Committee of School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology of SJTU, delivered a speech at the symposium. The SJTU-Yale Joint Research Center was established in 2014, striving to gather a group of world-leading academic forces in biostatistics and translational medicine, and promote the exchange and cooperation between experts to build a better talent training system. Ji also indicated that the center will focus on broadening research areas and leading research in biomedical data science in the next five years. Prof. Sten Vermount, Dean of School of Public Health of Yale University, spoke highly of the cooperation achievements between the two universities in the field of life sciences, and sincerely wished the Joint Center to make more breakthroughs. Later, he visited the public laboratory of the Institute of Translational Medicine and exchanged his ideas about technical support service capabilities and construction progress with laboratory staff.

At the symposium, the experts gave reports on the research directions of each team and discussed cutting-edge research and practice in the fields of brain science data sharing and challenges, data privacy, and security, microbiomics big data exploration, bioinformatics research on antibiotic synthesis, etc. They also had a lively communication about medical big data, application of statistics in medical informatization and data processing, genomics data analysis, and other issues. Prof. Lyu Hui, Director of the SJTU-Yale Joint Research Center, expressed the hope that with the concerted efforts of all parties, SJTU could go further in biological data analysis.

After the symposium, Prof. Sten Vermount, Prof. Zhao Hongyu, and Prof. Lyu Hui jointly issued appointment letters to the experts and professors.