Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), with roots in the Hupeh Agricultural College founded in 1898, is one of China’s oldest schools of modern agriculture. Located in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei Province, this national key university has been leading the field for 120 years. Today, having developed distinctive disciplinary strengths in biology, horticulture/crop science, animal science, veterinary medicine, and agricultural/forestry economic management, HZAU seeks to meet sustainable development goals with advanced agricultural research and technologies. It is striving to become a world-renowned, research-intensive university with first-class disciplinary programmes and unique strengths.

Since its founding in 1898, Peking University has been a leader of academic freedom and scientific research in China. As China’s first national university with multidisciplinary academic programmes, it has always been at the forefront of China’s modernization by fostering innovative young minds, generating new ideas that advance human civilization and producing cutting-edge science and technologies. See how this top research university of China has set out to become a world-class university with continued research innovations in basic and applied sciences, ranging from mathematics, chemistry and physics to materials science, ecology and medicine.

Shengbiao (Shanghai) Medical Equipment Technology was founded in 2016 with the aim of accelerating the development of high-quality biomedical products. By providing pilot testing-services, the company plays an essential role in the translation of research into new technologies and commercial products, ranging from autofluorescence imaging technologies that assist cancer diagnoses to supporting the development of novel cancer therapies. Recently, one of their subsidiary companies, Sun-Bio Medical Device, which is based in Japan, has developed a promising bispecific antibody tailored to fight lung cancer. The company is now looking into the antibody’s potential to treating different cancers and exploring other medical innovations that will improve people’s health.

Taste is one of the canonical five human senses, but it is also probably the least well understood. From the taste buds on the tongue to the appreciation of flavour in the brain, there are plenty of unknowns that science is looking to fill. In December 2017, the Nature Café event on Taste science, culture and communication brought international experts to London in search of answers. Watch the presentations and read the summary report.

The WE Summit, initiated in 2013 by Tencent, China’s leading internet service provider, is a platform for interdisciplinary exchange amongst the world’s science and technology innovators. In the past five years, approximately 50 world-leading scientists, professionals and influencers have come onto the WE Summit stage, disseminating the most cutting-edge science and technology to ignite the audience’s imagination.

The Estonian Presidency conference “European Research Excellence – Impact and Value for Society” brought together experts to discuss the value of research in Europe.

The human brain is probably the most astonishing of the body’s organs and its workings have intrigued scientists across the world. As China is to launch its brain project, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Qinhuangdao municipal government organized the first International Life Science Summer Summit in Beidaihe, focusing on brain science and health.

Ruijin Hospital was founded in Shanghai by the French Catholic church in 1907. Integrating Western and traditional Chinese medicine for the past 110 years, Ruijin has established itself as a leader in medical education, research and services in China.

Located in Shanghai, China’s most modern city, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) is the country's first higher-education institution specializing in chemical engineering.

QScience.com is an open access, peer-reviewed publishing platform from Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press in Qatar with a portfolio of journals that showcase research and reviews from the natural and social sciences. This supplement offers a glimpse into the diversity that Qscience.com boasts, by showcasing research highlights of ten of the online portal’s research articles.

Saudi Arabia’s economy has been heavily reliant on oil for decades, but now the country aims to diversity it’s resources and decrease its dependence on fossil fuels. Scientists gathered at the kingdom’s capital last December suggest biomedical research investment could be the driver behind this bold change.

Located in the picturesque and culture-steeped city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang University is one of China’s oldest and most prestigious comprehensive universities. For 120 years, it has never ceased its search for truth and pursuit of innovation. Its research achievements in natural sciences, agriculture, information sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities and social sciences highlight its rapid development into a world-class, innovative research university.