On March 22, 2019, the Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of SJTU-Yale Joint Center and the Opening Ceremony of the “SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics and Data Science” was held at the Translational Medicine Building at SJTU Minhang Campus.

Mr. Lin Shuangjun, Vice President and Distinguished Professor of School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, SJTU, delivered the opening speech. The SJTU-Yale Joint Research Center for Biostatistics was established in 2014 to gather a group of world-leading academic forces in biostatistics and translational medicine, and to promote the cooperation between experts and institutions in relevant fields to resolve the challenges in research design and analysis of translational medicine projects. The anniversary activity of academic exchange is a new opportunity to promote cross research in biostatistics and data science and expand the cooperation between the two universities to a broader extent.

 Zhao Hongyu, Director of the SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, reported on the achievements of the Center in the past five years. In 2014, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Yale University renewed their inter-university cooperation framework agreement, initiating in-depth cooperation and exchanges in the fields of public health and liberal education. 

After that, Ms. Xu Xuemin, Vice President of SJTU, and Mr. Pericles Lewis, Vice President of Yale University, inaugurated the SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics and Data Science, which lays the foundation for promoting the discipline development of data analysis in translational medicine and international cooperation in a deeper sense. 

A total of 17 projects were presented in the meeting. The experts deliberated over the projects and two first prizes, three second prizes, and four third prizes were awarded to the winners.

After the meeting, Kim Chengyu, Deputy Director of the Instrumental Analysis Center, led the Yale delegation to visit the Electron Microscopy Imaging Center and the NMR Center in the Translational Medicine Building.

耶鲁大学国际事务部东亚区主任Fawn Wang等随团访问。国际合作与交流处处长罗鹏、副处长郭亮、上海交大医学院副院长江帆，黄荣教授、上海交大-耶鲁大学生物统计研究中心主任吕晖教授、生命科学技术学院嵇绍岭书记、国际与公共事务学院姜文宁副教授，赵大海副教授、致远学院常务副院长章俊良教授，副院长夏伟梁教授、安泰经管学院副院长唐宁玉教授、转化医学办公室主任张显明等参加会议。