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Xiangya School of Pharmacy, Central South University

In 2000, approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the former Central South University of Technology, Hunan Medical University, changsha Railway College was merged to form the ministry of Central South University. After the establishment of the university, according to the characteristics of disciplines and the principle of resource sharing, adjustment and merger, in April 2002, the former Department of Pharmacy of Hunan Medical University, the Institute of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, and the pharmacy disciplines of the first, second and third Clinical Colleges affiliated to Xiangya university jointly established the School of Pharmacy of Central South University. In November 2016, it was renamed Xiangya School of Pharmacy of Central South University.

The pharmacy department of Xiangya Hospital was founded in 1907, and the pharmacy department of the Second and third Clinical Colleges of Xiangya was founded in 1958 and 1992. The Institute of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology was established on the basis of pharmacology of National Xiangya Medical College in 1945. In 1985, hunan Medical University enrolled the first pharmacy undergraduate class students and began to explore the cultivation mode of high-level pharmaceutical talents. On this basis, the Department of Pharmacy of Hunan Medical University was established in 1996. In 1997, it began to enroll 4-year pharmacy undergraduate students nationwide, and in 2019, it began to enroll clinical pharmacy undergraduates.

Since its establishment, the School of Pharmacy has always carried out various teaching and scientific research activities in order to train senior pharmaceutical talents, serve regional economy and serve people's health undertakings. After more than ten years of construction and development, it has formed three disciplinary directions of pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacy, and has made gratifying achievements and been recognized by peer experts. In 2001, Pharmacology became a national key discipline, and in 2004, Pharmacology became the first national excellent course. From 2001 to 2004, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacy, pharmaceutical analysis and pharmacognosy were awarded master degree. In 2003, pharmacy was approved as a postdoctoral research station by the Ministry of Personnel; In 2005, pharmacy was rated as a key major in Hunan Province, and in 2009, it was rated as a featured major. In 2010, the first-level discipline of pharmacy became the key discipline of Hunan Province during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, and obtained the right to confer doctor's and master's degrees of first-level discipline of pharmacy. In 2011, it was authorized by the doctoral program of biology and medicine. In 2018, the discipline of pharmacy was selected as the first-class construction discipline in Hunan Province. The discipline of Pharmacology and Toxicology entered the top 1% of ESI world for the first time in 2011 and rose to 0.352% in 2017, ranking 222nd. In 2011, pharmacy ranked 5th in the competitiveness ranking of undergraduate education in China. In 2016, pharmacology and Toxicology was shortlisted by US News & World Report world University Rankings by Subject, ranking 159th. In 2017, pharmacy and Pharmacology was included for the first time in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject (7th edition) published by QS Global Education Group, ranking 150-200. In 2018, the discipline of pharmacy was selected as the "National First-class" construction discipline in Hunan Province. In December 2019, pharmacy of Central South University was listed in the National First-class Undergraduate Program Construction Site List (Letter [2019] 46 of the Office of Higher Education).

Xiangya College of Pharmacy currently on - duty staff 62 people. Among them, 39 are full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 18 professors and 11 associate professors. 2 new Century talents of the Ministry of Education; 1 Outstanding Young Talent of Hunan Province, 3 subjects of "Discipline Leader of Hunan Ordinary Universities", 4 persons of "Hunan Talent Support Program"; Hunan province young backbone teacher 1, Hunan high-level talents gathering project 2.

The school of Pharmacy adheres to the concept of "establishing high-quality pharmaceutical specialty". In addition to the enrollment of 30 undergraduate students in 1997 and 1998, the annual enrollment of pharmaceutical undergraduate students remained about 60, expanded to 90 in 2012; In 2019, undergraduate students majoring in clinical pharmacy will be enrolled. The enrollment of graduate students has been growing steadily year by year. Since 2009, about 80 graduate students have been enrolled every year. At present, there are 694 full-time students, including 419 undergraduate students, 197 postgraduate students and 78 doctoral students. There are 8 postdocs (including 4 enterprise postdocs). Among the graduates, 2 have won the National Excellent doctoral dissertation award, 5 have been nominated for the National Excellent Doctoral dissertation Award, 10 have won the Hunan Provincial Excellent doctoral dissertation award, and more than 30 have won the Hunan Provincial Excellent Master dissertation award. The graduate enrollment rate of undergraduates is about 40%-50%. Every year, one or two students are directly admitted to famous foreign universities to study for graduate degrees. Since 2002, our students have received nearly 60 national innovation and entrepreneurship projects and more than 100 innovation and entrepreneurship projects from Central South University. It has compiled 87 national planning textbooks, postgraduate and undergraduate textbooks, academic monographs and reference books for scientific research and teaching. After more than ten years of construction and development, the college has formed a relatively complete teaching system with full-time undergraduate education, graduate education, post-doctoral training, engineering master training, engineering doctor training, adult education and so on.

The research institutes affiliated to the college include Institute of Materia Medica, Central South University and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research. The School has established the Center for Drug Molecular Design and Research. The Center for Molecular Imaging research of Central South University and the Center for Pharmaceutical Preparations and Early Clinical Evaluation Technology of Hunan Province have been established in cooperation with relevant units. It has established hunan Chiral Medicine Research and Engineering Center jointly with the enterprise, and has formed Hunan Pharmaceutical Excipients Engineering Technology Research Center jointly with the enterprise, Hunan Traditional Chinese Medicine Extract Engineering Center, Guangzhou Wellman United Laboratory, Hunan Dajia Weikang Joint Laboratory and Zhejiang Haizheng Joint Laboratory, etc. The platform for natural medicine research and development, molecular design and drug discovery, drug synthesis, molecular probe, applied pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and new drug preparation has been initially established. With Hunan Hansen Pharmaceutical Co., LTD., we have jointly built hunan province industry-university-research demonstration base. In 2020, the college established a college student practice and training base in Jialing Pharmaceutical Expo Park, and jointly applied with Changsha Duzheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and was approved as the school-enterprise Cooperation innovation and entrepreneurship base in Hunan Province. It has formed a number of disciplines including pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology, natural pharmacology, pharmaceutical analysis and clinical pharmacy, covering every link from drug research and development to use, and has formed a strong discipline group advantage. Cooperated with enterprises to complete the development and approval of more than 200 varieties of new drugs; Several promising class I and other drugs are under development.

Since 2010, it has received 61 national, provincial and ministerial funds, including 973, 863, Key Research projects during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, Major New Drug Innovation, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Major Research Program, Outstanding Youth Fund, etc.), New Century Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education, etc. More than 100 million yuan of scientific research funds; 130 patents of various types were applied or authorized; He has published more than 520 SCI and EI papers (first unit, first author/corresponding author). In June 2017, the pharmacy team of our hospital, professors liu juowen and zhou wenhu, published a review article "Metal Sensing by DNA" online in Chemical Reviews (2016 影响 factor 47.928). This is the highest impact factor paper published by our scientific and educational staff. In 2018, Professor Ding Jinsong's team in Pharmacy made important progress in the research direction of nanomaterial surface interface. In this study, polydopamine was used as the nanocarrier, revealing a new mechanism of interaction between DNA and nanomaterials, and confirming its advantages in biological analysis and intracellular detection. The research results were published in ACS Nano (IF=13.709). In 2020, Hu Gaoyun group, Cao Dongsheng group, Liu Baozhen group, Ding Jinsong and Zhou Wenhu group have successively obtained publications in the authoritative journals of "Journal of Medicinal Chemistry" (IF=6.054) and "Briefings in" Bioinformatics (IF=9.101), Advanced Science (IF=15.804), Materials Horizons (IF=12.319) and Biomaterials (IF=10.317) published high-level research papers or review articles. "Flufenidone, an anti-liver fibrosis drug," led by Professor Hu Gaoyun and others, was successfully transferred to Hainan Pharmaceutical, and entered phase I clinical trial in November 2018. In 2020, two patent achievements were transformed with a total amount of over 100 million yuan and over 30 million yuan respectively. The faculty has won 1 International Academic Award, 2 Second Prizes of National Science and Technology nominated by the Ministry of Education, 2 Chinese Patent Awards, and 1 second and third prizes of Chinese Medical Science and technology. Won the first prize of Medical science and Technology achievements in Hunan Province; Three second prize and one third prize of Natural science achievements in Hunan Province, one second prize of Natural Science Award in Jiangxi Province; One first prize of Hunan Provincial Technology Invention Award (ranked the third); Hunan Provincial science and technology progress Third prize 1 (rank 2).

Aiming at the frontier of biomedicine and the main battlefield of the domestic pharmaceutical industry, the College will further strengthen exchanges and cooperation with domestic and foreign scientific research institutions and pharmaceutical industry enterprises, and adhere to the principle of simultaneous development of scientific research and social services. Actively create conditions to integrate with international higher pharmaceutical education, and gradually transform to six-year pharmaceutical major; The school of Pharmacy of Central South University is striving to build itself into a leading training base for high-level pharmaceutical professionals in China and internationally.

Current party leaders of the College: Gong Tao, Secretary, Wang Hao, Deputy Secretary; Committee members: Liu Zhaoqian, Zeng Wenbin, Hu Changping, Li Ganbin, Cheng Zeneng, Peng Jun.

Current administrative leaders: Vice President Liu Zhaoqian (in charge of administrative work), Zeng Wenbin, Hu Changping, Li Ganbin.