Nephrology and Infectious Diseases

Chengdu Medical College (CMC), under the auspices of the Sichuan Provincial Government, is located in the north of the provincial capital city, Chengdu. CMC has two campuses (Xindu campus and Tianhui campus) with an area of about 198 acres, and it covers 12 MA postgraduate majors, 23 undergraduate majors and 5 three-year-program majors with an enrollment of 14,300 full-time students. The MA postgraduate majors involve 8 majors of professional master degree (Clinical Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health, Applied Psychology, Nursing, Biology and Medicine, Public Management and Agriculture) and 4 majors of academic master degree (Clinical Medicine, Basic Medicine, Medical Technology and Marxist Theory). CMC has 2 national experimental teaching platforms, 1 medical humanistic quality education base of the Ministry of Education and 6 experimental teaching demonstration centers of Sichuan Province. CMC has 1142 full-time teachers, among which 52.34% have senior professional post and 78.69% have master or doctor degree. CMC has built 15 provincial or department-level key scientific research platforms such as Sichuan Key Laboratory, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory and Sichuan Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Science, and it has 10 provincial and department-level first-class research teams. Since 2006, 152 projects have been approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China. Teachers’ academic papers

have been published in top international academic journals such as Cell, and more than 1000 papers have been indexed by SCI, EI, CPCI-S, etc. 137 academic works have been published and 155 patents have been authorized. In recent years, the school has won one first prize, five second prizes and seven third prizes for provincial and ministerial scientific andtechnological achievements.