On May 12th, 2021, SIAS held its very first academic salon on a topic of ‘Solving Cancer Immunotherapy Mystery with Molecular Modeling and Machine Learning: Winning Your Genetic Lottery’. Led by Dr Ruhong Zhou, Dean of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University. During the one-hour session, Zhou walked through the audience on the relationship between human immune system and cancer. By showing the molecular dynamics simulation film of antigens and binding proteins from real cases, he demonstrated to us the working process of immune cells in the body in a dynamic way.
SIAS Academic Salon is a series of educational seminars that aims to deliver meaningful scientific insights to a broad group of people who do not come from a science background, in a leisurely manner. This initiative was first brought by Dr Ruhong Zhou as he wanted to utilize such format of events to broaden SIAS employees’ horizons in the science field, and hopefully in a long run, more people can benefit from these events. SIAS Academic Salon plans to host educational seminars one in every two months, each time there will be a different keynote speaker. All speakers are industry- leading experts with global presence.