The Immunology Department is a dominant discipline enjoying priority of development in the field of medicine and life science of Soochow University. The Department is authorized to award master and doctor degree of immunology, post-doctor station of basic medicine, key subject of the state Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, the state “211 project”, Jiangsu provincial key subject of the 11th 5 year plane and “production, teaching and research” post-graduate students education base of Jiangsu Provincial Education Department and state Bilingual Education Cultivation Site. With more than 10 years of development, the Immunology Department has its enormous potential and special characteristics in education, scientific research and talent training.
1. A team of high attainment and creativity, rich experience and reasonable structure.
The Department of Immunology has 4 professors and doctor supervisors, 5 associated professors and master supervisors. 100% of the teaching staff are or above post-graduate degree. During the 10th and the 11the 5 year plan, it has taken more than 20 project founded by the state “863” “973” “State Grand National Science-technology Project” “National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars” “Excellent Talent Foundation of the Department of Health” “Foundation of the Department of Education for Returned Overseas Scientists” “Pro-research Project of the Department of Defense” “key project of Jiangsu Province” and “IAEA project”. Over 200 manuscripts have been published in journals home and aboard. Among 13 patents being applied, 7 have already been approved.
2. Many scientific research directions of bright prospects
I. co-signal molecules and the regulatory network and adaptive immunity: on the basis of abundant research, we proposed the hypothesis of co-signal network and proved by experiment that soluble and membrane co-signal molecules jointly take party in the regulation network. And focusing on this viewpoint, we have obtained a series of achievements in tumor immunology, transplantation and autoimmunology. The compatibility has been unanimously approved by our counterparts in China.
II. The specialty of radio immunology established by former Suzhou Medical College will be further developed: to explore the impact of radiation on immune system from the angles of immune recognition and effectors and to investigate the mechanisms of acute radiation injury and pave new ways for injury rescue.
III. Established antibody research and development platform: we have successfully prepared a series antibodies with value of basic research and clinical usage. 8 antibodies have been nominated at the 9th HLDA conference. Many antibodies and hybridoma cell lines have been transferred successfully.
3. Cultivation base for high level talents
The Immunology Department has been giving lectures of over 800 study hours per year for undergraduate, post-graduate and doctorial students majoring medicine and life sciences. 2 undergraduate students won 1st prize of “National University Challenge Cup”, 4 were warded with Tanjiazhen Life Science Jiuyuan Award. 120 students have got master degrees and 30 got doctor degrees. Besides, 9 were cultivated by “Production, Teaching and Research” model and 4 post-doc students had been studied here. 2 had won provincial excellent doctor dissertation, 3 provincial excellent master dissertation and many Soochow University excellent dissertations. Backed up by provincial stem cell lab, provincial clinical immunology lab, the Department boasts sophisticated equipment for scientific research especially for cell engineering. On the basis of “Production, Teaching and Research” post-graduate cultivation base of Jiangsu Provincial Education Department, the Immunology Department cooperates with biological enterprises in the exploration of talents cultivation model and has got perfect results.
Professor:Yu-Hua Qiu,Song-Guang Ju, Xiao-Ming Gao,Zong-Jiang Gu,Jin-Ping Zhang(Part-time)
Associate Professor:Yi-Bei Zhu,Qin Wang
Lecturer:Yan Ge,Xuan Zhou,Ming-De Qin, Min Fei,Yang Li
Technician: Yong-Jie Xia, Jing Sun, Yu-Min Hu, Hua-Ting Zhu, Wei Xie, Ying Xu, Jian-Zhong Pan, Lin Liu, Pei-Yu Wang,Ting Wang
Research Assistant:Feng Zhang
