Based in Shanghai, East China Normal University (ECNU) is one of the top research universities in China. Prestigiously, ECNU is under the auspice of the national academic excellence programs including the “Project 211”, the “Project 985” and the “Double First-Class Program” (First Class University and First-Class Academic Discipline in the World). Our university is renowned for its teacher education and high-level research programs in both basic and applied sciences.
The Health Science Center (HSC-ECNU) is a newly founded (on May 23, 2020) academic unit in the Minhang Campus, ECMU. In spite of its initial small size, HSC-ECNU strives to attract top-ranking medical faculty members and to grow steadily. With a goal of building up a novel platform for first-class medical research and education, we plan to start our educational programs with the advanced graduate levels that will eventually be expanded to the undergraduate levels.
To help with advancing medical sciences and accelerating relevant technological innovations to meet the medical and health needs of China and the world, we plan to set up four research cores (sub-centers) including the Basic Medicine Core, the Clinical Core, the Translational Medicine Core and the Public Health Core. In addition, there will be several specialized research institutes, focusing on basic and translational research of critical medical issues of regional and global importance in part through promoting multi-disciplinary integration, inter-institutional collaboration and globalization. To implement the ambitious national plan of “Coordinated and High-quality Development of the Yangtze Delta Region”, we have hammered out strategic alliance with the Wuhu city government of Anhui Province and the Changning District government of Shanghai to establish the ECNU Wuhu Hospital, the ECNU Maternity and Infant Health Hospital and the ECNU Mental Health Center.
Since October 2021, two batches of young scholars have entered our postdoctoral training station to start their postdoctoral investigations at HSC-ECNU. Meanwhile, two classes of graduate students had been admitted to begin their graduate studies. In collaboration with the Dalian Medical University, Dalian University of Technology and Nantong University, a number of PhD and Master’s students also jointed our research programs under the co-supervision of our faculty. In July 2022, HSC-ECNU was granted with the privilege of awarding Master’s and PhD degrees by the Ministry of Education of China, which had laid a solid foundation for a full-fledged medical school.
These initiatives together are expected to help with nurturing scientific creativity and innovation as well as the pursuit for the academic excellence of medical research and education at ECNU.
