Life Sciences Innovation School jointly established by SCUT and Shenzhen Huada Gene Institute(43364)


The opening ceremony in session	President LI Yuanyuan addressing

Vice-president QIU Xueqing presiding over the ceremony	Participants

SCUT signing cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Huada Gene Institute	The participants unveiling the School

On April 8, the opening ceremony of "SCUT-Shenzhen Huada Gene Institute" Life Sciences Innovation School (hereinafter referred to as Innovation School) was held on south campus of SCUT. YANG Huanming, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and LI Yuanyuan, president of SCUT, both delivered a speech; QIU Xueqing and ZHU Min, vice-presidents of SCUT, and YANG Guohua, Chairman of Party Committee of Shenzhen Huada Gene Institute were also present in the ceremony.

In his speech, President LI Yuanyuan pointed out that a series of bold reforms have been carried out in teaching system and talent development mode in the long course of school-running process, and in order to realize the transition in education ideas, innovation shall be promoted, system applicable to talent cultivation shall be established and innovative atmosphere shall be created. Also, he indicated that before long SCUT, conforming to this mode, would mould other advantageous disciplines into schools or institutes with innovative talents cultivation mode.

President LI Yuanyuan also expressed his hope that Life Sciences Innovation School, serving as a model of talent development reform for SCUT, would become the internationally renowned and first-class research-oriented school in China.

Prof. WANG Xiaoning, dean of School of Bioscience & Bioengineering , concurrently serves as the first dean of Innovation School. It is reported that this newly-established school will center on key technologies such as Genome Sciences and Synthetic biology. Platform of Industrial Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering will be established and researches in the following fields will be conducted, including application and industrialization of microbial genome, biomass energy and new materials and key technology and equipment of life sciences.

The same training mode (2+2+X, X 0 for undergraduates; X 1 for students enrolled in a double degree; X=2-3 for postgraduates; X=5 for doctorate candidates) as SCUT-Shenzhen Huada Gene Institute Innovative Program will be offered in Innovation School. Modular teaching and reinforcement teaching will be adopted in professional basic courses and tutorial system is employed in specialized courses.

Students participating in the scientific researches in Research Group can earn corresponding credits according to the teaching assessment.

Edited by HU Nanping and CAO Jinrong

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Life Sciences Innovation School jointly established by SCUT and Shenzhen Huada Gene Institute

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