Date: May 8, 2021

Source: College of Life Science and Technology 

Jinan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Regenerative Medicine Key Lab, now a demonstration base, has been rated excellent in the 2020 China International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base Assessment,  released by the Ministry of Science and Technology's Department of International Cooperation. Of the 698 bases nationwide on the shortlist,104 were rated excellent.

The Key Lab is a university-level joint laboratory, was built in April 2007. In December 2007, it was approved as a Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education of Regenerative Medicine and became the Ministry of Education's first key laboratory based on the development of universities in Guangdong and Hong Kong. In August 2008, the lab became a key international cooperation research institution (joint research and development center) of the Guangdong Science and Technology Department. In August 2009, the laboratory was approved as an international science and technology cooperation base by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The team involved in the construction and operation of the international cooperation base includes talents from JNU's College of Life Science and Technology, Medical School of Basic Medicine, Institute of Aging and Regenerative Medicine, and Medical School of Clinical Medicine.

Opening ceremony for Regenerative Medicine Key Lab

The base has been collaborating on high technology with Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany; Yonsei University in Korea, the Institute of Human Genetics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, the University of Florida and other institutions for five years.

It has 13 new international technological cooperation agreements, with eight morewithout time limits, and there were 28 international conferences held in the base.

It now offers a doctoral program in interdisciplinary regenerative medicine, a master's degree program in regenerative medicine and developmental biology, and a dual Chinese-German master's program in regenerative medicine and developmental biology.

The base's funding totals more than 98 million RMB, of which 15.9 million RMB was allocated to 11 national and provincial projects in international technological cooperation. The base has published 285 SCI papers in many periodicals including Nature and Cell Stem Cell, as well as seven monographs (four completed through international cooperation). It holds 15 authorized patents and has won three provincial technology awards and five industrial and association awards at the international, national and provincial levels. In addition, the dual Chinese-German master's degree program of the base has received funds from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service).