Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University *** to establish the School of Medical Science and Engineering

Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University*** built the School of Medical Science and Engineering

On August 23rd, Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University*** signed a comprehensive deepening of the strategic cooperation agreement and*** built the "School of Medical Science and Engineering". Memorandum. According to the agreement, the two sides will face the "Healthy China" national strategy, to build "world-class universities with Chinese characteristics and first-class disciplines" as an opportunity to coordinate, deepen cooperation, and join hands *** to build a high-level and high-level "School of Medical Science and Engineering". The College of Medical Science and Engineering will become a testing ground for the comprehensive reform of new medical education and science and technology in Tianjin, which will serve as a pivot to promote the development of substantive disciplinary integration between the two universities.

In the development of modern medicine, engineering science not only promotes the progress of basic medicine, but also makes up for the transformation of basic medicine to clinical medicine by the most important disciplinary pivot; clinical medicine is more and more dependent on the support advantages of engineering science, clinical medicine in the new problems, new needs and greatly promote the development of engineering science itself. The cross-fertilization of medical science and engineering science is the inevitable development of modern medicine. Who can break the disciplinary barriers in the fastest medical-industrial integration, who may seize the commanding heights of medical development, who can make a major breakthrough in the field of medical disciplines.

This comprehensive deepening of the strategic cooperation between Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University signifies that the development of medical disciplines in Tianjin is about to enter a brand new stage. The construction of the new college will bring together the two schools in the medical science and engineering technology advantage of the discipline resources, and strive to produce high-level scientific and technological achievements, training of top innovative talents, which also marks the substantive advancement of the development plan of Tianjin University medical-industrial integration, "strong engineering, thick science, vibration of literature, and the development of medical" disciplinary layout is further improved in the world's first-class universities and world-class disciplines construction. This also marks the substantial progress of the development plan of medical-industrial integration of Tianjin University.

Li Jiajun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tianjin University, and Yao Zhi, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tianjin Medical University, attended the signing ceremony and delivered speeches, while Zhong Denghua, President of Tianjin University, and Yan Hua, President of Tianjin Medical University, signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of the two universities. The signing ceremony was attended by more than 100 people, including members of the leadership teams of Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University, heads of relevant departments and colleges, representatives of teachers and students. The meeting was chaired by Wang Shuxin, Vice President of Tianjin University.

According to the agreement, the School of Medical Science and Engineering will rely on the national-level doctoral program of Biomedical Engineering of the two universities, and jointly organize the "Biomedical Engineering", "Intelligent Engineering" and "Intelligent Engineering" programs. ", "intelligent medicine" undergraduate program, the two schools respective enrollment, joint training, try this - master's degree - PhD through the integrated training program, to explore the medical - engineering composite degree of top innovative medical personnel training mode, graduation results qualified, by the two schools, the president of **** with the issuance of graduation certificates can be awarded a dual degree of medicine and engineering. The new college will be the first university to start the integration of disciplines in the two universities.

In addition, the two universities will continue to support the cooperative construction of the Tianjin Neurological Engineering Research Center, and combined with the existing scientific research strength, to prepare for the establishment of the "Future Medical Science and Technology Innovation and Transformation Center", set up a "seed fund", the introduction of the results of the recognition and rewards to guide the policy, to encourage scholars from both sides to focus on major scientific research and development. Policies to encourage scholars from both sides to organize teams for major research projects to carry out joint research, *** with the application of national and provincial key laboratories and engineering centers and other scientific research bases; the two sides *** with the establishment of large-scale instrumentation and equipment, public **** service platform, to strengthen the communication of information, to achieve the two sides of the campus network resources interoperability of the "integration of the construction of online campuses

Li Jiajun fully affirmed the importance of Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University's "School of Medical Science and Engineering" ****built on the overall development pattern of the school, and hoped that in the traditional cooperation between the two sides on the basis of the strengths of strengthening communication, boldly open up, the courage to explore, and dare to try, and strive to come out of a "medical traction, engineering, and the development of the medical field". "medical traction, engineering support, transformation and innovation, clinical demonstration" of the characteristics of the road of medical development. He emphasized that, with the rigorous and pragmatic style of Tianda people, we should grasp the comprehensive deepening of the strategic cooperation agreement with Tianjin Medical University to promote and implement, and accelerate the construction of the "School of Medical Science and Engineering" **** work.

Yao Zhi said, the two schools to start a comprehensive strategic cooperation on the construction of world-class disciplines of Tianjin Medical University is crucial to the two sides to jointly establish the College as an opportunity to realize the complementary advantages of Tianjin Medical University and Tianjin University as soon as possible and the integration of disciplines, the needs and problems arising from clinical practice through the combination of medical and engineering to explore and solve the problem, adhere to the clinical orientation, and open up the potential for the field of intelligent medicine, etc., and work together to create a world-class research direction. The two universities are working together to create a world-class special zone for training high-end medical science and technology talents and a base for medical research and innovation.

Ming Dong, director of the Institute of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine at Tianjin University and professor responsible for the biomedical engineering discipline, said that the biomedical engineering professions of the two schools have the same roots and close cooperation, and the new college is expected to achieve the integration and optimization of the existing resources to achieve the non-linear incremental effect of 1+1>2. Both sides in the discipline construction, scientific research, personnel training, international exchanges and other all-round multi-level cooperation produced by the positive chemical reaction, will help in Tianjin to create a leading international biomedical engineering disciplines, to realize the two sides hand in hand **** win.

It is reported that the history of cooperation between Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University can be traced back to 1978, when Tianjin University President Li Shusen and Tianjin Medical College (predecessor of Tianjin Medical University) Dean of Zhu Xian in the world's forefront of science and technology on the dynamics of the development of the *** knowledge to the sensitivity of scientists and educators decisively decided to jointly prepare for the construction of the earliest biomedical engineering program in China. This makes Tianjin University become one of the first four universities to establish the program, opening up the first medical engineering joint venture, for the future development of related professions in the two schools laid a good foundation.

For more than 30 years, the cooperation between the two universities has never stopped. 1980, the first enrollment of the biomedical engineering program of Tianjin University adopted a joint enrollment with Tianjin Medical College (10 students from each school), and the mode of cooperative training. In 1986, Tianjin Medical College established its own biomedical engineering program, with most of its initial faculty members coming from the first two graduates of the joint program. 2000, TMU and TMU were jointly awarded the Tianjin Key Discipline and established a postdoctoral station. 2009, TMU and TMU jointly established a postdoctoral station in Tianjin. In 2009, the two sides also jointly established the "Tianjin Neuroengineering Research Center", focusing on the emerging field of brain-computer interaction and neuroengineering cutting-edge research, forming the two schools **** the same direction of professional development characteristics.