A student of hope

In 2019, Shan was among three participants picked for a one-week trip to Geneva, Switzerland, under the Tsinghua Sustainable Development Goals Open Hack competition.

Her team created a prototype of a mobile app providing systematic information about HIV. The app can also connect users to experts in the field and control a smart medical kit that reminds HIV-positive patients to take their medicine on time.

Shan was supposed to graduate in 2020. However, her study on the coronavirus forced her to suspend her doctoral studies. She has now decided to take the coronavirus study for her doctorate and will finish her study this summer.

Shan says her research seeks to find broad-spectrum antibodies against both known types of coronavirus, such as COVID-19, SARS and MERS, and new variants that may appear in the future.