On May 14, LY103 for Injection, a project under the “Blue Drug Storage” development program with wholly independent intellectual property rights, passed the review of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and received Notice of Approval for Drug Clinical Trial (Approval Nos. 2026LP01521 and 2026LP01522). The drug is jointly developed by Ocean University of China (OUC), the Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao (MBRI), and Qingdao Haiji Biomedical Co., Ltd., and is the fou

Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhou Longwen of the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering,at Ocean University of China (OUC) made new progress in the study of Floquet critical topological phase transitions. The findings were published in Naturein an article entitled “Observation of critical topological phase transition.”Topological states of matter and critical points of phase transitions have long been regarded as “two disco

Recently, a research team led by Professor Liu Licheng at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Ocean University of China (OUC) made new progress in photocatalytic CO2reduction. The findings were published in Angewandte Chemie International Editionin a research article entitled “Reconfigurable Charge Transfer between Type-II and Z-Scheme in WO3/Cu2O for All-day Photoreduction of CO2.”Against the backdrop of the global energy transition and China’s “dual carbon” goals, the solar-dr

Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhang Zhengguang at the Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China (OUC), made new progress in research on oceanic submesoscale processes and tropical cyclones (TCs). The findings were published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesin a research article entitled “Weak prestorm submesoscale sea surface temperature gradients conducive to tropical cyclone intensification.” The study,

Recently, research teams led by Professors Wang Wei and Li Dehai at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of Ocean University of China (OUC) made significant progress in research on marine-derived anti-influenza agents through a joint research effort. The findings were published in Nature Communications in an article entitled “Identifying a broad-spectrum influenza inhibitor that blocks multiple functions of viral NS1 protein.”Influenza A virus (IAV) nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) promotes viral re

Recently, a research team led by Professor Dong Shuanglin from the College of Fisheries at Ocean University of China (OUC) published a research article entitled “Synergy of ocean alkalinity enhancement with biological carbon pump for marine CO2removal in the coastal ecosystem with oysters” in Environmental Science Technology, revealing that Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) and oyster farming synergistically enhanced carbon storage and sequestration and elucidated the mechanisms underlying thi

Recently, a research team led by Professor Li Yiming from the Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, at Ocean University of China, made new progress in oil-water separation membrane technology. The findings were published in Nature Waterin an article entitled “Synchronous and parallel separation of opposing emulsions enabled by a heterowettability membrane.”Oil-water emulsions are widespread in petrochemical processing, marine oil spills, food production

Recently, researchers from the Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Education, the Fang Zongxi Center for Marine Evo-Devo, and the Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education—all at Ocean University of China (OUC)—in collaboration with the Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources, Ministry of Education, at Hainan University, made new progress in environmental DNA (eDNA) detection in aquatic environments. The findings were publishe

Recently, a research team led by Professor Shen Chuanbin of the School of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ocean University of China (OUC), together with its collaborators, made new progress in elucidating the mechanisms underlying thrombosis and in the pharmacology of antithrombotic agents. The two studies were published online in Bloodand Molecular Therapy, respectively, titled “The hepatic FGFR-ERK-HRG axis regulates heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis” and “Targeting the MNK1-MYH9 axis

Recently, Ocean University of China’s (OUC) Interdisciplinary Research Group on Second Language Acquisition published an article entitled “Effects of Task Complexity and Task Type on L2 Learners’ Oral Production: A Study of Linguistic Form and Function Dimensions” in the 4thissue of Foreign Language Teaching and Researchin 2026. The study systematically examines how task complexity and task type affect second language (L2) learners’ oral production. Going beyond previous research that focused ma

Recently, a research team led by Professor Liu Jun of the Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Ministry of Education, at Ocean University of China (OUC),in collaboration with Professor Li Ruijuan of Shandong University, made new progress in the development and biomedical application of engineered bacteria. The findings were published in an article entitled “Engineered bacteria as exogenous organelle mimics restore PTEN and p53 tumor suppressor functions for cancer therapy” in Nature Communications.Lo

Recently, the College of Marine Geo-sciences at Ocean University of China (OUC) published a research article entitled “Slab thermal transitions in the Aeolian arc driven by sub-slab mantle upwelling in the early Pleistocene” online in Nature Communications. The study documented, for the first time, a rapid transition in slab thermal state in the magmatic record of the Mediterranean Aeolian arc and established a link between slab-tearing-induced upwelling of hot asthenospheric mantle and the comp

Recently, a research group led by Associate Professor Wang Nan within Professor Bao Xianwen’s team at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China (OUC), collaborated with researchers from the National Marine Hazard Mitigation Service, Ministry of Natural Resources, and other institutions in China and abroad, published their latest findings in an article entitled “National restoration initiatives promote China’s marine ecosystem recovery” in Communications Earth En

Recently, a research team led by Professor Jiang Zhaoxia of the Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, Ministry of Education, at Ocean University of China (OUC), published a research article entitled “Equatorial Indian Ocean productivity over the last 200,000 years and links to deep circulation variations” online in Communications Earth Environment, a Nature Portfolio journal.Ocean circulation and the biological pump (BP) are crucial mechanisms that regulate variati