Since the implement of Climbing Project , Jiangnan University JU has increasingly attached importance to the construction of R&D bases and platforms. At the beginning of 2011, Ministry of Education key scientific research bases made the latest achievement Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sugar Chemical and Biological Technology was approved to establish at School of Food Science and Technology of JU.
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sugar Chemical and Biological Technology will center on some basic science issues such as the existence forms, the structures, functions, biotransformations and purification to conduct researches so as to develop sugar purification techniques and equipment which base on efficient separation technologies like industrial chromatography.
As well, this lab will contribute to the theoretical and technological development of function sugar which has significant values of application in the fields of food science, medicine, chemical engineering, textile and so forth. As the R&D innovative base of sugar chemistry, sugar biology, sugar biological manufacturing and enhancement of sugar functions would made possible by this lab, it is bound to provide supports to the development of sugar qualitative science and sugar biology industry
Nationwide, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sugar Chemical and Biological Technology will be the first base for R&D and talents cultivation specializing in the field of sugar chemistry, biotransformation, structural modification and purification. It s generally believed that operation and development of this lab will contribute a great deal to some disciplines such as biotechnology, food science and technology, agriculture products processing and preventive medicine.
Also, it contains some strategic values to realize agriculture products processing and modern circulation industry featured by healthy food and prioritized by our country.