College of Life Sciences, Central South University,has a long disciplinary history, and it has grown along with the development of "Centennial Xiangya" medical education. The school is one of the first institutions in China to have a first-level doctoral program in biology, and it also has a postdoctoral research station in biology. In May 2003, Professor Xia Jiahui, a renowned human and medical geneticist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, advocated for the establishment of the College of Biological Science and Technology.In April 2013, the school was renamed as the College of Life Sciences. Currently, the college has five departments, and in addition, there are five Hunan Provincial Key Laboratories, three International Exchange Platforms, and four research centers.

The college has a strong faculty team. This team is represented by academicians and national high-level talents. There are 114 staff members in the college.This includes one Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, over 30 national and provincial/ministerial high-level talents, and four chief scientists of 973/Key National Research Programs. The college has over 800 undergraduate and graduate students (both master's and doctoral students). The college has a State Key Discipline in genetics, Biology and biochemistry, as well as Molecular biology and genetics, are among the top one percent in the world's ESI rankings.

The college has over 20,000 m² of research space, ¥200 million in advanced equipment, and a 4,000 m² platform for SPF-grade mice experiments. The college has two national first-class undergraduate professional construction points in biological science and bioinformatics. Key milestones: the college was approved as a “National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base” (2002), selected as a “National Talent Training Mode Innovation Experimental Zone” (2008), co-established the “Tang Feifan Elite Class” with Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS (2016), launched a “2+2 Chinese-UK Program” with the University of Dundee (2017). It won the National Teaching Achievement Second Prize (2018), was named a National First-Class Undergraduate Program (2019), selected for the first batch of the Ministry of Education’s “The Strengthening Basic Disciplines Plan” (2020), approved as a National Basic Disciplines Elite Talent Development Program 2.0 Student Base (2021), and selected as a National Biology Talents Program University Discipline Training Base (2022).

The biological science is supported by over 10 provincial and ministerial-level platforms, such as the National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base. It adheres to the "Four Orientations", fosters interdisciplinary synergy, targets key human health issues for original research, and has developed distinctive strengths in medical genetics, neurobiology, developmental biology, and tumor biology.

In the past five years, the college has received 66 national-level projects (including 1 national key research and development project), with total funding of nearly 200 million yuan. 1,140 papers have been published in journals such as Science and Nature Genetics. 39 invention patents have been authorized, of which 15 have been transformed. The college participated in winning one first prize for National Teaching Achievement and one first prize for Provincial Natural Science. It also led the acquisition of one "Outstanding Contribution Award" and one first prize for "Scientific and Technological Achievement Award" from the China Birth Defects Intervention and Assistance Foundation.

Address: Xinglin Campus, Central South University, No.172 Tongzipo Road, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Postal Code: 410013

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