How Do I Choose the Best Neuroscience Institute?

The Institute of Neuroscience of Zhejiang University was established in 2005. Its predecessor was the Lin Baixin Brain Function Laboratory of Zhejiang University. Professor Luo Jianhong was the director and Professor Chen Zhong was the deputy director. Professor Duan Shumin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as the chairman of the academic committee. The Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of the Ministry of Health and the Key Laboratory of Neurobiology of Zhejiang Province were established in 2007 and 2010, respectively.

Institute of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University was founded in 1897. Its predecessor was Qiushi College. It was one of the first new-style higher education institutions founded by the Chinese themselves. It is one of the first key universities to enter the national "211 Project" and "985 Project" construction. In the long-term school running process, Zhejiang University has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents with a rigorous style of seeking truth from facts, and has created fruitful results with a persistent spirit of innovation.

Zhejiang University has a strong overall teaching staff. There are currently 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 12 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 9 chief scientists of the 973 project, 51 Yangtze River Specially Appointed (Lecture) professors, and 67 outstanding youth fund winners. The high-level graduate mentor team and good scientific research and experimental conditions have laid a solid foundation for the development of high-level graduate education. ^[1]

The Institute of Neuroscience of Zhejiang University is an open research base integrating scientific research, teaching, and personnel training. It integrates four disciplines of neurobiology, pharmacology, physiology and anatomy, and has established cell imaging, cell biology, and molecular Research platforms for biology, neuropharmacology, electrophysiology, biochemical immunology, and behavioral laboratories. At present, the institute has 13 basic neurobiology research groups, 13 clinical and translational neuroscience research groups, and is equipped with a large number of instruments and equipment.

Research is based on basic research and applied basic research. The overall positioning and research direction are clear. Attach importance to the close integration of basic neurobiology and neurological disease research, and are committed to transforming the new concepts, technologies, and methods obtained through basic research into the pathogenesis, diagnosis and new drug targets of important brain diseases Research to facilitate the resolution of related clinical issues. The main research directions are: 1. research on neural development and plasticity mechanism; 2. basic research on important nervous system diseases; 3. research on the pathogenesis of mental and psychological diseases; 4. research and development of innovative drugs for important neuropsychiatric diseases. In recent years, he has published more than 100 papers included in SCI, including research papers published in world-class journals such as Nature Neuroscience, JBC, Hippocampus, J Cerebr Blood F Met, and co-authors in top international journals such as Nature, Cell, and Science. presented paper.

Research on all the strong ability to undertake major national scientific research tasks. Currently, he is in charge of undertaking 2 major projects, 4 projects and 3 sub-projects of the National Basic Research Program (973), 1 major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 2 key projects of the National Science Foundation, 4 key research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (cultivation projects), more than 30 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project of the New Century Excellent Talents Fund of the Ministry of Education, and Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation, etc. The total funding reached more than 45 million. In the past three years, he won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Progress Award and the third prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, and participated in the National Achievements Exhibition of the Ministry of Science and Technology for ten years. He has won 3 national science and technology conference awards, the Ministry of Education nominated the National Science and Technology Award for second-class natural science awards, and 8 provincial-level science and technology achievement awards (including 3 provincial-level second-level awards and 5 third-level awards).

The institute aims to gain new understanding of basic issues in neuroscience and provide new methods and technologies for the prevention and treatment of important brain diseases, and strive to reach the international level of brain science research. At the same time, the Institute will strive to build an important base for high-level research and high-level talent training in neurobiology in China. ^[2]