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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has 18 faculty and staff members,including three professors who are doctoral supervisors, eight associate professors. These are a high-level, full of youthful spirit, united teaching group.
In 1980’s, the first batch conferring unit of master’s degree in national medical colleges, were set up with the leading of Prof. Zhang Hua-Zheng. At present, this department has distinguished achievement in teaching, constructions of academic subject and scientific research with the joint efforts of some leading representatives such as Prof. Hong Jia-Ling and later professors.
In teaching, they are in charge of two excellent courses and public course of graduate student in school-level. They have been carrying out bilingual teaching for medical undergraduate and advanced biochemistry technique subjects for graduate through constructing the systematic teaching mode. They achieved more than 10 teaching research subjects award from province and university, published more than 20 teaching papers, 5 textbooks as editors in chief and more than 10 textbooks as subeditors or the senates.
At present, the department has already stable scientific research directions, including: the mechanism and prevention of atherosclerosis, focusing on the mechanism of lipoprotein modification and therapy of atherosclerosis using gene knock-out mice models; the molecular mechanism of diabetic nephropathy by exploring novel signal pathway; the basic and clinical research of stem cells; the research and development of bioactive peptide using genetic engineering and biotechnology.
In recent decade, the department has been in charge of 17grants of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and more than 10 research programs from local government and enterprises, with scientific research funds more than 6million RMB. Some programs obtained the second and third-class prizes of advancement of science and technology in Hubei province. They have65articles published in scientific journals indexed by SCI/EI/ISTP and 3 authorized patents.
In recent years, the department actively expands the international cooperation and communication, successively ties up with some important laboratory in Nancy 1 University of France, McMaster University of Canada, Vanderbilt University medical center and South Carolina University school of Medicine in USA.