Research
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Research Centre of Neuroscience
The Center of Neuroscience at Zhejiang University is devoted to basic and translational neuroscience research, with topics covering neural signal transduction, synaptic function, neural circuits and behaviour, and neuropsychiatric diseases. It currently hosts 25 laboratories, led by Dr. DUAN Shumin, an academic member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Aiming to build a world-class neuroscience research center, Zhejiang University has attracted excellent faculty members including several National Distinguished Young Scholars, the ChangJiang Scholars and the Young Thousand Scholars. It provides a highly stimulating training environment and state-of-art research facilities. Competitive salaries and benefits are offered.
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Research Center of Cancer
The research interests in the center for cancer research maily focuses on the molecular and cellular biology of cancer, pathology and pathophysiology during tumorigenesis, and descovery of biomarkers and drug targets for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The center is led by Professor Lai Maode who is a member of German National Academy of Sciences, and is composed of twelves of principle investigators from basic, translational and clinical departments of Zhejing University School of Medicine. Researchers in the center are funded by many national key projects and supported by national and provincial key disciplines and research platforms.
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Research Centre of Infections and Immunity
The research in the center of infection and immunity mainly focus on the studying of the molecular and cellular basis of immune response including immunological recognition ,immune cell actiation, immunoregulation and immune tolerance. We are also interested in immune therapy against different tumors , basic and clinical research on pathogenic microorganisms, and the development of new vaccines against pathogenic microorganisms . The centre is led by Professor Cao Xuetao, an accademician of the Chinese engineering academy. Researchers in the center has been funded by many national key projects, including national district key project, 863 Project and National Science Fundation.
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Research Centre of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
Research of the centre focuses on both basic and translational biomedical sciences. Using cutting-edge single-cell sequencing, CRISPR/CAS9 genome editing, super-resolution imaging and mouse gene targeting technologies , we are tackling fundamental questions on stem cell biology (skeleton, muscle, and blood stem/progenitor cell fate determination, somatic reprogramming, pluripotency regulation and direct lineage conversion), developmental biology (skeleton and placenta development), platelet and thrombosis regulation, scavenger receptor in lipid metabolism, and senescence/aging. In particular, the center, led by Prof Hongwei Ouyang, is recognized as one of the leaders in the area of skeleton system regeneration by employing interdisciplinary approaches which integrate biomedical science, material science, chemistry science and engineering technologies. Principle Investigators (PIs) of the centre are able to compete for national key grants and laboratories are currently well-funded by key grants from both Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST).
