The School of Basic Medical Sciences (BMS) aims to be an internationally renowned institute, with distinctive features and cutting-edge research.With an emphasis on the integration of basic and clinical research, the school has recruited and cultivated high-level scientific talents and built their state of art teams. All the funded top-notch grants guarantee innovative research activities that integrate basic and clinical aspects to promote development of diverse disciplines in areas of reproductive health, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic diseases.For example, guided by clinical problems and led by clinical applications, collaborations are forged between basic and clinical research teams in the National Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine. Notably, Pro.JiahaoSha's group,for the first time in the world, differentiated mouse embryonic stem cells in vitro into functional sperm cells, bringing hope for individuals with azoospermia to have children. This discovery has received high recognition worldwide and deemed as a major advance in the field of stem cell research. In addition, the “Collaborative Innovation Center for Cardiovascular Diseases Translational Medicine”, led by Pro. Qi Chen, focuses on cardiovascular research under the guidance of new target discovery, new drug research & development, new model construction and the clinical application of novel technologies. To achieve this, coordinated endeavors are established among universities, hospitals, research institutes and enterprises, to promote innovative research on basic science, new drugs with their R&D and their unified clinical applications, ultimately rendering Jiangsu province the lead in prevention & cure of cardiovascular diseases across the nation and major influences across the globe.In particular, the school of BMS have published an array of high-impact articles in top journals like Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Genetics,Nature Communications and others.Moreover, our faculty won the First Prize of National Science and Technology Award (ranking 4th) once, the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Award (ranking 2nd) once and the First Prize of Provincial Science and Technology Award 8 times. Impressively, the school has been granted with numerous patents that substantially help the advancement of translational medicine, assuring the school with unique characteristics and advantages.
During the calendar year of 2018, the school of BMS received 40 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including 1 Major project, 2 State Key projects, 26 General projects and 11 Youth projects. Meanwhile,the school received 10 additional grants from the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, out of which includes 1 Outstanding Young project. In addition, we received another 10 grants from the Provincial University Natural Science Foundation. Altogether, research funding granted to our school this year was approximately around 39.12 million RMB. Out of all the 187 publications where in our faculty serves as corresponding/co-corresponding authors, 5 papers are published in journals with an impact factor (IF) ≥10 and 69 are published with IF ≥5.
Research News
(1) The “2018 Jinling Medical Forum and the Academic Exchange Conference for Young Scholars with Expertise in Basic Medicine from Four Universities” was held on 11/24/2018.
(2) “Forensic Session of the 12th Youth Academic Meeting of Nanjing Science and Technology Association” was held on 11/10/2018.
(3) Ceremony for launching the “Professor Committee” and “Home of Professors” took place on 10/11/2018.
(4) The first Professor Salon talks opened on 11/15/2018.
(5) The second Professor Salon was held.
(6) “Academic Salon of the European and American Alumni Association” was hosted in the school of Basic Medical Sciences on 12/13/2018.
(7) The fourth Professor Salon was held on 12/27/2018.
(8) Young faculty members and PhD students from the department of Human Anatomy received multiple awards from American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), 9/28/2018.
(9) Professor GuanlingWu awarded the honorary title of Distinguished Contributions to Tropical Diseases and Parasitology, 7/26/2018.
(10) The 2018 Academic Exchange Conference was hosted in the “Collaborative Innovation Center for Cardiovascular Disease Translational Medicine of Jiangsu Province”, 4/12/2018.
