According to the updated data of Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators (ESI) on November 11, 2021, biology and biology of Shantou University Chemistry has entered the top 1% of the ESI world for the first time, marking that the discipline has entered the international high-level ranks in the field, achieving a new breakthrough in school discipline construction and scientific research, and has the potential to impact the development of national first-class disciplines. Up to now, Shantou University has five disciplines: clinical medicine, engineering, chemistry, environmental science and ecology, biology and biochemistry, which have entered the top 1% of ESI in the world.

Biology and biochemistry is the traditional dominant discipline of Shantou University. It is formed by the cross-integration of biology and basic medicine, the two dominant key disciplines in Guangdong Province. There are two first-class undergraduate majors (biotechnology), two first-level doctoral/master’s degree program in biology and basic medicine, two postdoctoral mobile stations in biology and basic medicine, as well as national kw disciplines of pathology and pathophysiology, and the key laboratories of high incidence of tumor molecular biology in Chaoshan coastal areas.

After years of development, the discipline has now formed solid research directions such as biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, immunology, human physiology and pathophysiology, regenerative medicine, bioinformatics, biological resources and biomedicine. In the past three years, the discipline has taken the lead in undertaking 72 national projects, including 2 key projects, and 98 provincial and ministerial projects, with a cumulative fund of about 35 million yuan. Relevant research results in Nature (IF=49.962), Nat Rev Microbiol (IF= 60.633), New Eng J Med (IF=91.245), Gastroenterology (IF= 22.682), Brain (IF= 13.501), Nat Commun (IF= 14.919), Nucleic Acids Res (IF= 16.971), Cancer Res (I F= 12.701) and other top international academic journals have been published, with a total of more than 500 SCI papers, and the relevant achievements have won the second prize of Guangdong Natural Science Award and other awards.

The discipline is well equipped with high-level teachers, including national model teachers, Guangdong special branch famous teachers, Guangdong colleges and universities "Thousands of Talent Training Project" national-level training objects, Guangdong young Pearl River scholars, Guangdong teaching famous teachers, Nanyue outstanding teachers, and high-level talents of Guangdong Sailing Plan. Team. Among them, 85% of teachers have doctorates and 58% have more than one year of overseas study or work experience. The two professors were selected into the list of highly cited scholars in China in 2020.

The entry of biology and biochemistry into the top 1% of ESI in the world is the starting point rather than the end point. The biology and biochemistry disciplines of Shantou University will certainly take this opportunity to work hard and forge ahead to further improve the comprehensive level of the discipline.