The School of Pharmacy of Yantai University offers undergraduate pharmacy majors and master's majors such as "medicinal chemistry" and "pharmacology". Courses such as organic chemistry, physical chemistry, microbiology and immunology, medicinal chemistry, natural medicinal chemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutical analysis, human anatomy and physiology, pharmaceutical affairs management, and introduction to clinical medicine are offered.
The teaching staff has grown to more than 40 people, including professors 16 and associate professors 12. More than 40% of the teachers have doctorates (some graduated from famous universities in Europe and America), 2 enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, and 2 are young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Shandong Province. In order to promote the rapid development of discipline construction and the improvement of scientific research level, the College of Pharmacy invited Academician Sun Manji of China Academy of Sciences and Academician Tang Xican of China Academy of Engineering as part-time professors.
After several years' efforts, the College of Pharmacy has established a relatively complete innovative drug research system, with instruments such as NMR, LC-MS, HPLC (analytical and preparative), gas chromatograph and automatic blood biochemical analyzer, with a total equipment value of more than 38 million yuan.
The teaching and research of Pharmaceutical College always adheres to the close combination of theory and practice, and serves the teaching with the abundant scientific research conditions and practical experience of Shandong Lvye Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and the practical skills of graduates are highly praised by employers. In recent years, pharmaceutical education in Yantai University has achieved rapid development from scratch, from "having" to "excellent", and it has been listed as one of the five dominant disciplines of Yantai University and approved as the "Key Laboratory of Drug Screening and Evaluation in Shandong Province". He has made great achievements in scientific research and won the National Science and Technology Progress Award 1, Shandong Science and Technology Progress Award 1, second prize 1, third prize 4, second prize 3, and third prize for technological invention 1. In the evaluation of discipline points conducted in 2004, the comprehensive strength of pharmacy specialty of Yantai University ranked 14 in China, among which the teacher talent echelon ranked sixth (only after Peking Union Medical College, Peking University, China Pharmaceutical University, Zhejiang University, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University and other famous pharmaceutical schools).
The projects undertaken and completed by teachers in the College of Pharmacy mainly include national key projects such as the National 863 Major Project and the Tenth Five-Year Plan Project, and provincial and ministerial projects, with funding of more than 20 million yuan. In recent five years, 608 papers have been published, and SCI, EI and ISTP have included 185 papers. After 2006, 39 national and provincial projects were approved, including 9 projects (2 secondary units) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation.
There are nearly 800 undergraduates and postgraduates in the School of Pharmacy, and the graduate entrance examination rate in 2007 is 38%. Among them, more than 60% of the students have been admitted to first-class medical institutions such as Shanghai Institute of Pharmacy of China Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, China Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Zhejiang University, China Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Xi Jiaotong University, Tianjin University, etc. All the graduates have been employed.
With the combination of Industry-University-Research, the School of Pharmacy of Yantai University has developed by leaps and bounds! Looking forward to the future, all teachers and students of the College of Pharmacy will take the spirit of "dedication, innovation, realism and cooperation" as the goal, train professionals in drug research and application, establish a first-class innovative drug research and development base in China, and make greater contributions to the development of national pharmaceutical industry.