The Institute has set up an Academic Committee, which is responsible for academic direction and decision-making and consulting on institutional construction; and a sub-committee of the Degree Committee, which is responsible for the cultivation of interdisciplinary postgraduate education and degree work.
As an organizational guarantee for scientific research and teaching, the Institute of Frontier Interdisciplinary Research has set up a competent administrative structure.
Nano Science and Technology Research Center
Peking University is one of the earliest institutions in China to carry out research on nanotechnology, and it was the first university to set up an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary Nanoscale Science and Technology Research Center (hereinafter referred to as the Center) in September 1997, which integrates the nanotechnology research strengths of the Colleges of Chemistry, Information Sciences, Physics, and Life Sciences. With the strong support of Peking University, the Center has become an important research institution for scientific research in the field of nanotechnology in China after more than a decade of efforts.
The Center now has five research divisions, namely, Nanochemistry, Nanoelectronics, Nanodevices and Integrated Technologies, Nanostructures and Low-Dimensional Physics, and Nanomaterials and Biotechnology Research Divisions, and *** there are 23 research groups. There are about 150 researchers in the center, including 20 professors, 5 associate professors, 3 engineers, and about 120 postdoctoral and graduate students. There are 1 academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 Changjiang Distinguished Professors, 8 recipients of National Outstanding Youth Fund, 4 recipients of Ministry of Education's New Century Outstanding Talents Fund, 3 chief scientists of National Nano Major Scientific Research Program, 1 innovative research group of "Surface Interface Nanoengineering" of the Foundation Committee, 2 innovative teams of the Ministry of Education, etc. There are two innovative research groups in the Ministry of Education, and two innovative teams in the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The Nano Center has one key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, namely the Key Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Nano Devices of the Ministry of Education, and three experimental platforms of the Ministry of Education, i.e., the Laboratory of Micro-Nano Processing, the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, and the Laboratory of Nano Technology of the Ministry of Education. Laboratory of Micro-Nano Processing", "Electron Microscopy Laboratory" and "Nano Chemistry Research Center". In 2003, the center started the "Graduate School of Nanotechnology", which recruits 10-15 graduate students every year to engage in cross-disciplinary research in nanotechnology, and in 2008, the cross-discipline of "Nanoscience and Technology" was approved to become a key discipline in Beijing. In 2008, the interdisciplinary program of "Nano Science and Technology" was approved to become a key discipline in Beijing.
The main research directions:
1) nanochemistry and single-molecule science;
2) nanomaterials and mesoscopic physics;
3) nanoelectronics and molecular electronics;
4) nanodevices and integrated technology.
Center for Quantitative Biology (formerly Center for Theoretical Biology)
Quantitative Biology is a new discipline that is emerging from the rapid development of life sciences and the intersection and fusion of quantitative disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, information science and engineering. Since the end of the last century, life sciences have undergone rapid changes and even revolutionary new changes. Life science is also gradually from qualitative, descriptive, localized research, to precise, quantitative and holistic direction. Research attention from the original focus on molecules, expanding to find the overall law of biological systems. The leap of life sciences can not be separated from quantitative science and technology, and a large number of new problems in life sciences provide the impetus and source for the development of these traditional disciplines.
The Center for Quantitative Biology at Peking University (formerly known as the Center for Theoretical Biology at Peking University, hereinafter referred to as the "Center for Quantitative Biology") was established in September 2001 after the proposal of Mr. Li Zhengdao and the strong support of Peking University, and became a new center for quantitative biology in April 2006. In April 2006, the Center became one of the first official members of the newly established Peking University Institute of Frontier Interdisciplinary Research. The purpose of the Center is to take advantage of the multidisciplinary strengths of Peking University, to concentrate the research strengths in mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and information science, to communicate with foreign counterparts, and to develop and promote the research of quantitative systems biology by combining theory and experiment.
The Center for Quantitative Biology at Peking University is home to a group of like-minded scientists - not only scholars and experts in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering and information sciences from Peking University, but also a group of outstanding scientists from China and overseas who work part-time and visit the Center on a regular basis, forming an interdisciplinary research community. The interdisciplinary research community of biology research. The research areas include systems biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, bioinformatics and so on. The Center for Quantitative Biology is one of the first Innovative Research Teams of the Ministry of Education of China, and in 2007, it became the first "interdisciplinary" innovative research group supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and in 2008, it received the support of the Beijing Municipal Key Discipline Construction for interdisciplinary research.
Since its establishment, the Center for Quantitative Biology has continued to improve its infrastructure and maintain continuous spatial development. The Center now has offices for permanent staff, visiting scholars, conference rooms for academic exchanges, graduate student studios, computer cluster systems and quantitative biology laboratories. There are 1 Chair Professor, 2 Changjiang Distinguished Professors, 3 Changjiang Chair Professors, 2 Professors, 1 Distinguished Researcher, 4 Associate Professors, 3 Post-doctoral Fellows, 52 PhD students, 5 Master's students and 24 undergraduate students.
Since its establishment at the end of 2001, the Center has made a series of advances in biological network dynamics, biomolecular evolution, gene regulation, protein action mechanism and drug molecular design. The Center for Theoretical Biology arranges regular academic activities once a week and invites scholars from home and abroad to give presentations from time to time. At the same time, the center holds an international conference or summer school in theoretical biology and bioinformatics every year in the summer. the seminars in 2000 and 2001 focused on exchanging the latest advances related to theoretical biology, and from 2002 onwards, the center selects a specific topic every year and purposefully invites well-known international experts in the relevant direction to hold a seminar that represents the frontiers of international academic research and has a targeted approach, The center will also hold internal symposiums in a timely manner. At the same time, the Center will also hold internal academic exchange activities. It helps to strengthen the communication between the personnel of various disciplinary backgrounds, and provides favorable support for the realization of the cross and integration of various disciplines.
The center focuses on developing students' imagination, creativity and passion for research. Students with passion and high motivation are selected for further training: imagination and creativity are fostered: graduate students of the Center provide technical support to undergraduates in the iGEM program.
Curriculum and training: ①Students concentrate on Biology and another specific discipline - at least half of the courses in their respective disciplines are completed; ②Students acquire the foundation of knowledge and skills needed for future research work - different foundation courses are offered for new students with different professional backgrounds; ③Students are trained to have a holistic view of biological systems - academic lectures (inviting specialists in the relevant fields, presenting how to study biological systems from their respective professional perspectives); ④ stimulate students to critically analyze and understand papers and improve research leadership by reviewing classic papers in the field of study - selected lectures in Systems Biology.
Major Research Directions:
- Basic Research in Systems Biology
- Synthetic Biology
- Quantitative and High-Throughput Experimental Techniques
- Complex Disease Research and Drug Design Based on Systems Biology
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedicine
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (CIRIBM) at Peking University has the following goals. The goal of the Center is to promote the organic integration of the life sciences and medical sciences with the science and engineering sciences at Peking University, to establish a favorable academic exchange and research environment, to combine the cutting-edge research in basic sciences, technological applications, and clinical sciences, and to promote new inventions, discoveries, and technological innovations in the entire biomedical field from the molecular scale to the scale of human organs. The three major missions of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedicine are: to promote interdisciplinary academic exchanges in biomedicine; to conduct interdisciplinary research; and to cultivate new talents with interdisciplinary backgrounds.
The cultivation of interdisciplinary talents is another important task of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, which has assisted the Graduate School of Peking University in setting up two interdisciplinary graduate classes since 2001 to cultivate new composite talents with interdisciplinary backgrounds. By 2005, 89 interdisciplinary graduate students had been enrolled. Graduate students of the "Bioinformatics Graduate Program", under the guidance of outstanding supervisors from many disciplines such as life sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, medicine (pharmacy), etc., carry out teaching and scientific research in bioinformatics/systems biology/theoretical and computational biology, which has formed new disciplinary strength and important disciplinary direction. The supervisors of "Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program" come from the Department of Science, the Department of Information and Engineering, the Department of Medicine and several affiliated clinical hospitals of Peking University, and the graduate students come from the basic disciplines of life sciences, physical chemistry, and basic medicine, as well as from the applied and engineering disciplines of electronics, computer technology, biomedical engineering, and clinical medicine, and the graduate students are from all relevant disciplines. and engineering disciplines. Based on the complementary strengths and mutual cooperation of all relevant disciplines, the research and talent cultivation in the interdisciplinary frontier field of biomedical engineering has formed a new growth point of disciplines at Peking University. Numerous hospitals affiliated with Peking University have become the advantageous resources that other schools do not have, and the free and open academic atmosphere also provides a very favorable platform for students to carry out "discipline switching" according to their own interests, and to carry out cooperation and exchange between different disciplines across a large span of time.
Main research interests:
Plasma medicine and nanosecond pulsed electric field;
Biomedical signal and image analysis;
Cellular mechanics and bio-micro-nanotechnology.
Magnetic ****Vibration Imaging Research Center (formerly Functional Imaging Research Center)
The Magnetic ****Vibration Imaging Research Center at Peking University was created in 2010. The goal of the center is to establish a comprehensive interdisciplinary platform for magnetic **** vibration imaging research, and vigorously carry out scientific research and its applications in the field of magnetic **** vibration imaging (focusing on neuroscience, protein in vivo function, and oncology clinics, etc.) and high-end technological innovations (high-field spectrometry and pulse sequencing, etc.) with international standards.
The center has purchased four high-field (3T and 9.4T) research-type magnetic **** vibration imagers with the financial support of the National 211/985 Program and the National Development and Reform Commission.
The Magnetic **** Vibration Imaging Research Center is a cross-disciplinary platform for research around large instruments, and its instrumentation in the Comprehensive Research Building will soon be put into use. The center will bring together experts from various fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, psychology, computer science, life science and medicine. Different disciplines will integrate and collide with each other, synthesize the mindsets of different disciplinary backgrounds, promote technology through experimentation, and cultivate high-level talents in the fields of magnetic **** vibration imaging technology, cognitive brain functional imaging, and medical functional imaging.
Research Center for Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering
Relying on Peking University's Institute of Frontier Interdisciplinary Research, the Center integrates the advantageous resources of Peking University's scientific and technological disciplines as well as clinical and basic medical disciplines, and was established in March 2007 at Peking University. The cross-disciplinary research team consists of experts in the fields of materials science, mechanics, clinical medicine, and life sciences, and carries out basic and applied research on biomedical materials and tissue engineering. In 2007, we received support from the Ministry of Science and Technology to carry out research on the mechanism of nanomaterials in the regeneration and repair of dental tissues and organs; in 2008, we received support from the Ministry of Education for the 985 Innovative Research Platform Project to build a research platform for biomedical materials; in 2008, we set up the Biomedical Engineering Research Center in Shenzhen Research Institute of Peking University. In 2008, we set up a biomedical engineering research center in Shenzhen Research Institute of Peking University to build an industry-university-research and development platform for the transformation of enterprise practice results; in 2009, we obtained the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China's major national scientific research program to carry out research on the topic of "cardiovascular implantable device materials with nano-modification"; in 2009, we became the secretariat of the Interventional Medicine Engineering Branch of the Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society. Since 2009, the center has become the secretariat unit of Interventional Medical Engineering Branch of Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society. Until December 2009, the center has undertaken 16 projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 863 key projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China, with a total of more than 10 million yuan of scientific research funding; the center's laboratory construction and team building has begun to take shape, and has established a cooperative relationship with a number of laboratories in the university; in addition to the relevant basic research and clinical application of basic research, the center has also established a cooperative relationship with a number of laboratories in the university; in addition to carrying out basic research and clinical application of basic research. In addition to the basic research and clinical application of basic research, the center also vigorously promote and actively participate in the combination of industry-university-research projects, undertake the research and development commissioned by enterprises, such as "new oral implant system research and development" and other projects, and cooperate with a number of enterprises to carry out research and development of biomedical materials products.
Main Research Direction:
1, Basic Research Direction
Metallic materials for medical use, non-metallic materials for medical use, surface modification of biomedical materials, embryonic stem cell differentiation and regulatory mechanisms, cellular mechanic behavior
2, Clinical Research Direction
Oral biomedical materials and devices, bone and cartilage regeneration and repair, skin repair and wound dressing. Skin Repair and Wound Dressing, Neural Tissue Repair and Neurological Rehabilitation, Medical Testing
Environmental and Health Research Center
Human society is facing serious health risks due to environmental problems, and for this reason, Peking University established the Environmental and Health Research Center in October 2007, which will take full advantage of Peking University's cultural and cultural heritage to promote the development of the environment and health. The Center will give full play to Peking University's comprehensive advantage of having a full range of arts, sciences, and medicine disciplines, strengthen cross-disciplinary research in the field of environment and health, promote the cultivation of talents in environmental health research and management, and provide high-level scientific, technological, and decision-making support for the national environment and health policy. It serves as an important academic support institution for environmental health research at Peking University, emphasizing the characteristics of close connection from basic disciplines to decision-making support, promoting exchanges among environmental health-related disciplines at Peking University, and advancing the development of environmental health science at Peking University. Since its establishment, the Center for Environment and Health Research has organized experts from Peking University in the fields of environmental sciences, chemistry, basic medicine, public **** health, and clinical medicine to carry out interdisciplinary cross-cutting and integrated research on environment and health.
Research Areas:
-Environmental Monitoring and Population Exposure Evaluation;
-Biomarker Measurement Techniques;
-Pollution Exposure and Environmental Genomics in High Cancer Prevalence Areas;
-Exposure and Health Hazards of Fine and Ultra-Fine (Nano) Particulate Matter;
-Health, Social, and Economic Losses of Environmental Pollution Evaluation;
-Health risk evaluation of environmental quality standards.
Ocean Research Center
The goal of the Ocean Research Center of Peking University is to organize the relevant research strengths of Peking University according to the needs of the development of the national oceanic industry, establish a system for training talents engaged in the oceanic industry, and build a multidisciplinary oceanic research platform at the international first-class level. Taking advantage of the strong multidisciplinary foundation of Peking University, it will cultivate and promote marine scientific research projects with Peking University as the main body or the leader, support and promote the active participation of Peking University faculty in major scientific research, engineering and consulting projects with international competitiveness and closely related to China's marine cause, cultivate high-level talents with multidisciplinary background and innovative ability in marine cause, and play an important role in China's and even the international oceanic research. research, play an important role in China's and international ocean research, and contribute to the construction of a strong ocean country.
As a multidisciplinary, high-level academic institution, the Center for Oceanic Research of Peking University will give full play to Peking University's strengths in disciplinary layout and extensive connections with other renowned institutions at home and abroad, and cooperate with the national ocean authorities to make full use of the information and resources of domestic oceanic research, and contribute to the development of China's oceanic research.
Major Research Directions:
(1) Ocean system and global change (Ocean system and global change)
(2) Deep ocean and geodynamics (Deep ocean and geodynamics)
(3) Basic research, development and utilization of marine resources
(4) Marine regulations and management and international relations
(5) Marine engineering and technology
In 2014 Peking University decided to establish the Institute of Oceanography.
Research Center for History and Philosophy of Science
Background of the establishment of the Center, its goal and orientation
To give full play to the advantages of integrating the arts and sciences in the History and Philosophy of Science, and to build an academic platform for the intersection of arts and sciences at Peking University.
To carry out research on the history of science at Peking University, to establish a monument for science at Peking University, and to change the image of Peking University as a liberal arts university.
Developing the disciplines of history and philosophy of science at Peking University and making them at the forefront of the country.
Main Members and Research Directions of the Center Academician Xu Zhihong, Plant Physiology, Science and Humanities, Ethics of Science and Technology Prof. Ma Boqiang, Theoretical Physics, History of Physics and Philosophy of Physics Prof. Rao Yi, Neuroscience, History of Biology Prof. Wu Guosheng, History of Western Scientific Thought, Social History of Modern Chinese Science Prof. Zhang Daqing, History of Medicine, Medical Ethics Peking University-Tsinghua University Joint Center for the Life Sciences (CLS)
Peking University - Tsinghua University Center for Life Sciences (CLS)In order to accelerate the construction of China's first-class universities, the Joint Center for Life Sciences (JCLS), designed and organized by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance with the support of the state, and with the close cooperation of Peking University and Tsinghua University, was established in accordance with the principles of "unified leadership, top-level design, strong alliance, pragmatic development, and dynamic adjustment". The Joint Center for Life Sciences is a major reform measure of the scientific research and education system. Its goal is to attract and bring together outstanding scientists who are passionate about education by reforming the system of education and scientific research, and to create a first-class life sciences research and education center by focusing on both excellent theoretical teaching and cutting-edge research, and by cultivating top-notch innovative talents.
The Joint Center for Life Sciences inspires scientists to freely explore the frontiers of the unknown in the scientific spirit of "truth-seeking and innovation". It fosters an atmosphere of interdisciplinary integration, research independence, and open-mindedness to stimulate original innovations with breakthroughs and potential for sustainable development.
As a relatively independent entity spanning multiple faculties and departments of the two universities, the Life Center enjoys autonomy in recruitment and assessment of talents, research and teaching, and implements an internationalized and socialized system of personnel recruitment, openly selecting and hiring researchers and scientists with world-leading academic standards in their research fields through a fair and impartial assessment model.
The Life Center takes independent laboratories under the responsibility of subject groups as the basic research and talent training units, and reforms the model that is not adapted to the development of modern education. Students with rich imagination, strong sense of independent thinking, and strong willingness to engage in scientific research are selected by a multidisciplinary training program, and their creativity is brought into full play by tailoring their education to their needs. Strengthen the education and training of undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students, and closely integrate them with independent scientific research and practical activities to encourage and cultivate the growth of young scientists on their own.
One of the keys to building a world-class university is to make first-class scientific research based on the combination of science and education. The history of hundreds of years since Newton clearly shows that free exploration of scientific research is a natural and powerful part of a world-class university. Due to historical limitations, the combination of science and education in China has not been close enough in recent times, and there have even been periods of separation, which is not conducive to the development of higher education in China. By establishing a joint center for life sciences between the two universities, the state will not only help improve the share of universities in the nation's scientific research -- especially free-exploratory scientific research -- but also strengthen the integration of science and education through institutions of higher learning.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) has given the life centers institutional support in terms of policy and encouraged the development of undergraduate and postgraduate curricular training programs, graduation standards and academic regulations that are appropriate for the times; the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has provided support for competitive projects for the day-to-day scientific research operation of the centers; and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has provided basic support for the centers' recruitment, scientific research, construction and teaching reforms, based on the average of the actual annual funding for institutes of the same scientific nature and of a similar scale in China. The Ministry of Finance provides basic support for the recruitment, scientific research and teaching reform of the Center at a rate slightly lower than the average of the annual funds received by similar research institutes of similar scale in China. The center is actively exploring the establishment of an institutional mechanism suitable for the laws of scientific and educational development, adapting to the needs of modern society, carrying out high-level research, promoting the interactive development of scientific research and teaching, and making replicable explorations and efforts in the areas of institutional mechanism, scientific research results, and innovative talents.