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On the afternoon of August 28, 2024, a signing ceremony was held at Xiamen University’s Xiang’an campus for a cooperation agreement between the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) Key Laboratory for Research and Evaluation of Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technology (referred to as the “Key Laboratory”) and the Fujian Institute for Food and Drug Quality Control (FJIFDC). Attende...
AbstractHuman enteroviruses (HEV) can cause a range of diseases from mild to potentially life-threatening. Identification and genotyping of HEV are crucial for disease management. Existing typing methods, however, have inherent limitations. Developing alternative methods to detect HEV with more virus types, high accuracy, and sensitivity in an accessible manner presents a technological and anal...
In order to accelerate the construction of the Centre for Global Health, the Global Health Team, including Chair Professor Zhou Shuisen, Associate Professor Chen Tianmu, Postdoctoral Fellow Rui Jia and Doctoral student Chen Qiuping, went to the Institute for Global Health of Peking University on 3 July for exchange and learning. Professor Ren Minghui, Director of Peking University Institute for...
Recently, Dr. Chenxi Cai from our school was invited by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to their headquarters in Switzerland to participate in an expert workshop focused on the promotion of international policies regarding athletes during pregnancy, the postnatal period, and childcare.The workshop conducted an in-depth exploration of the various challenges that elite athletes encounte...
On June 18, 2024, a communication on Global health cooperation was held at Global Health Centre of Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu Province. Members of the Global Health Centre teams had a learning exchange from Duke Kunshan University, and discussing the potential cooperation directions, which may provide ideas for Global Health Centre of School of Public Health, Xiamen University (Prof. Li...
AbstractExposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during pregnancy has been inversely associated with neonatal neurological development. However, the associations of exposure to specific PM2.5 constituents with neonatal neurological development remain unclear. We investigated these associations and examined the mediating role of meconium metabolites in a Chinese birth cohort consisting of 294...
The HBsAg-specific BCR knock-in mouse was constructed to study the characteristics of B cells in chronic HBV infection. An atypical pre-plasma cell population was identified post therapeutic vaccination in chronic HBV carrier mice. Atypical pre-plasma cells display enhanced BCR signaling, ER stress and apoptosis-related gene expression. Combination therapy (antibody + vaccine) partially ...
