Academics

Biology and Medicine

30.August, 2021

Biology and Medicine

The discipline of Biology and Medicine is built on the basis of Food Science and Engineering (a provincial key cultivation discipline in 2018). The academic pacesetter of the discipline is Professor Ren Yanrong who is a doctor of biomedical engineering and a master supervisor. She,Doctor Ren, the leader of one of the Innovative and Entrepreneurial Demonstrative Team of Chongqing Talents Plan, has been selected into the second batch of Chongqing Young Backbone Teachers of Higher Education. There are currently 30 faculty members specializing in this discipline, including 11 professors and 14 associate professors. Among them, 20 members have doctoral degrees, accounting for 66.7% of the whole faculty; there are five master supervisors, five municipal commissioners of science and technology, and two leaders of the Innovative and Entrepreneurial Demonstrative Team of Chongqing Talents Plan. There are two research directions: Pharmaceutical Engineering and Food Engineering. The disciple of Biology and Engineering at CQUE has its strength in the development of homology of medicine and food, chemical pharmacy, functional food, and lipid resource utilization. It is home to Chongqing Key Laboratory of Three Gorges Reservoir Area Resources" and other three provincial scientific research platforms. It has an outstanding teaching team recognized by Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (CMEC), five municipal innovation teams, an innovation research group of Chongqing Higher Education. It has 25 labs equipped with advanced instruments including gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, e-nose, and Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction. In recent years, the faculty have undertaken three national-level research projects and 78 provincial and ministerial-level projects. They have published 293 high-level research papers, among which the research findings on the new mechanism of the occurrence and development of non-alcoholic fatty liver were selected as the cover of the journalHematology. They have 10 authorized patents, one of which was awarded the second prize of Chongqing Award for Scientific and Technological Advancement.