Message from the Dean

The goal and mission of the School of Basic Medical Sciences of Zhejiang University is to provide premedical education for healthcare professionals and to cultivate tomorrow's leader in biomedical sciences with outstanding creativity, leadership and international vision. The school has made tremendous progress in the innovative research of basic medical sciences and now become an important base for premedical education in China.

On the basis of the outstanding performance in the National Science Education Base of Basic Medicine, the School was granted as the National Pilot School by the Ministry of Education of China in 2011. The School has been listed as the First-class discipline in construction of World-class university by the Ministry of Education in 2017. The Basic Medical Sciences of our school has been entitled as Grade A discipline by the National fourth round discipline evaluation. In 2019, Qiushi Elite Program Basic Medical Sciences Major (4+1 program) was set up in Chu Kochen Honors College, collaborating with the University of Oxford. In 2019, Zhejiang University (yuhang) Institute of Basic Medicine Innovation was officially established to promote the translational research. New Class of Basic Medical Sciences in the Chu Kochen Honors College also started in 2020 with the support from "Plan for Strengthening Basic Disciplines" of the Ministry of Education. In 2021, the school was selected as the 2.0 base of the Ministry of education's 2020 top student training plan for basic disciplines and as a national first-class undergraduate spcialty construction site.

We will follow the university's motto "Seeking the Truth and Pursuing Innovation", catching up with the pace of the new era, improving our international reputation and targeting a first-class school in world-class university. I am delighted to work with our outstanding faculty, staff, students and alumni toward achieving the excellence in research and education of biomedical sciences in the coming years.