Professor Cui Yunhuo and Professor Lei Hao from the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction at East China Normal University have been named to Elsevier's 2025 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list in Education. Prof. Cui receives the honor for the fourth consecutive year, and Prof. Lei for the third, highlighting their sustained impact in the field.

Professor Ke Zheng of East China Normal University launches the "Education Powerhouse Research Series," addressing China's transition from a "large" to a "strong" education system. Grounded in real-world challenges, the series seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice while contributing Chinese perspectives to global education governance.

Erectile dysfunction is one of the most frequent and distressing complications after radical prostatectomy, significantly impairing patients’ quality of life. A new review published in UroPrecision summarizes current evidence on penile rehabilitation strategies, including oral medications, intracavernosal injections, and vacuum devices, and proposes a risk-stratified algorithm to guide clinical decision-making. 

This review is part of the themed issue “Distinct Themes for the Advanced Practice Providers in Andrology”

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has become the standard treatment for localized prostate cancer. However, postoperative urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction remain common complications. A new review published in UroPrecision systematically examines nerve-sparing techniques during RARP, including anatomical foundations, surgical planes, innovative approaches, and patient selection tools, providing a practical guide for balancing cancer control and functional preservation.

The advent of the evolutionary scale modeling (ESM) series of protein language models (PLMs) is a significant innovation in the convergence of large language models (LLMs) with protein representation. These models, trained on large amounts of unlabeled protein sequence data, learn the intricate patterns of mutation and conservation that have sculpted protein families through evolutionary history. ESM has become a widely used foundation model family for protein representation and downstream biological tasks.

Oral nanomaterial formulations enhance drug stability, solubility, mucosal penetration and targeted delivery for gastrointestinal therapy. This review compares metallic and non-metallic nanomaterials and highlights the strong clinical translation potential of non-metallic systems, especially selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs).

Over the past decades, combination therapy has become a promising strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance. Compared with monotherapy, drug combinations can enhance efficacy and delay resistance. However, experimental identification of drug–drug interactions (DDIs) remains time-consuming and limits large-scale screening.