Southern Medical University is a university jointly constructed by Guangdong Province, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Education. The school is a key high-level university in Guangdong Province and an excellent doctor education and training program by the Ministry of Education. Implemented in universities and Guangdong Province 211 Project colleges.
1. Southern Medical University (referred to as Southern Medical University) is the only medical school among the key high-level universities in Guangdong Province, one of the first batch in the country, and the only "Ministry, Commission, and Province" in Guangdong Province** *Build colleges and universities.
2. One of the first 8 universities in the country to offer an eight-year bachelor's, master's and doctoral program in clinical medicine, and the first batch of pilot universities in the country for the excellent doctor education and training plan. The school is located in Guangzhou.
School construction:
1. As of September 2022, the school has 21 teaching institutions, offering 29 undergraduate enrollment majors, 23 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 5 national key and cultivated disciplines.
2. 6 key disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 10 key disciplines of Guangdong Province, 10 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, and 16 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees.
Scientific research achievements of Southern Medical University:
1. As of March 2021, the school has won 2 second prizes of the National Natural Science Award and the second prize of the National Technological Invention as the first completing unit. 1 National Science and Technology Progress Award, 15 second-class National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 1 National Patent Excellence Award, and 53 first-class provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.
2. 4 scientific and technological achievements were selected into the top ten annual scientific and technological advances in the country; it has taken the lead in undertaking major national science and technology projects for infectious disease prevention and control for three consecutive five-year plans and received rolling support; in 2020, it won 303 projects from the National Natural Fund .
3. In September 2022, a new study involving multiple scientific research institutions from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University, as well as China’s Xiamen University, Jiangnan University, and Southern Medical University, found that .
4. Atmospheric pressure cold plasma can inhibit the coronavirus from invading human cells, laying the foundation for the development of nasal sprays and other drugs that can prevent the new coronavirus. Relevant papers have recently been published in the Australian Journal of Diagnostics and Therapeutics.