On March 23, Pericles Lewis, vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, delivered opening remarks at the launch ceremony of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine-Yale University  Institute of Immune-Metabolism (SYIIM). During the ceremony, Lewis and Chancellor Chen Guoqianf of SJTUSM presented official appointment certificates to Professor Richard Flavell (Yale) and Professor Su Bing (SJTUSM), new co-directors of the new joint institute.