About us
     Discipline of immunology, Basic medical science school of ZJU, is the doctor’s degree conferring unit and the key discipline of ZJU. By the suggestion of Academician Chen Yizhang, immunology research institute of ZJU was established in 2000, to be the leading research institute in the nation and worldwide. Our discipline has developed rapidly in lab construction, cultivating talents and doing top class scientific research. Currently, in the leadership of academician of Chinese academy of engineering, chief scientist of 973 project in immunology, chairman of china society for immunology,  Pro. Cao Xuetao, our discipline consists of 5 doctrate professors, 5 professors /Master instructors, 2 lecturers and 2 laboratory technicians.

Discipline construction
     After several years of accumulation and development, we have formed our own characteristic in the construction of the subject. We have carried out some of the most creative research on the following aspects .

• The differentiation, regulatory, and new functions of dendritic cells and macrophages. The project "Definition and the mechanism of immune regulation in new dendritic cells subsets” which was collaborated with Second Military Medical University, was honored, “Top Ten Advances in Science and Technology of Chinese Universities”  and “Top ten medical news in China in 2004”. And the paper Splenic stroma drives mature dendritic cells to differentiate into regulatory dendritic cells was published in Nature Immunology as cover paper. We have also published many paper in  this area of research in journals such as Blood, J Immunol. and so on.
• Cloning and immune function of new molecular derived form Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC). The new immunological molecules derived from the BMSC is significant for exploring the differentiation, migrating and its mechanism of hemopoietic stem cells. This project may also be critical for establishing new therapy of tumor, infection, and autoimmune diseases.
• To explore the new approaches for treating and researching oncology, infection, and autoimmnunity. And how to translate  these research achievements from “bench to bedside”.

Achievements
     Our discipline has undertaken dozens of crucial research projects which includes “973 project”, “Project supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China”, ”General projects of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”, “863 Project” etc.. We have  published almost 70 SCI-included papers in Blood, J Immunol, J Biol Chem. And we have invented 15 patents recognized both nationallly and internationallly.
Graduates training direction
    We focus on the cultivation of innovation ability among graduate students, guiding them to do some leading-edge research and publish  high level SCI-included papers.  The PHDs we trained in 2003 and 2008 were honored “National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation”.