On August 23rd, Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University signed a comprehensive deepening strategic cooperation agreement and a memorandum to jointly build the School of Medical Science and Engineering. According to the agreement, the two sides will face the national strategy of "Healthy China", take the opportunity of building a "world-class university and a first-class discipline with China characteristics", make overall plans, deepen cooperation, and jointly build a high-level "College of Medical Science and Engineering", and build it into an experimental field for comprehensive reform of new medical education and science and technology in Tianjin, and take this as a fulcrum to promote the integration and development of substantive disciplines between the two universities.
In the development of modern medicine, engineering science not only strongly promotes the progress of basic medicine, but also makes up for the most important fulcrum of the transformation from basic medicine to clinical medicine. Clinical medicine relies more and more on the supporting advantages of engineering science, and new problems and new demands in clinical medicine have greatly promoted the development of engineering science itself. The cross-integration of medicine and engineering science is the necessity of the development of modern medicine. Whoever can break the discipline barrier in the combination of medical and work as soon as possible may seize the commanding heights of medical development and make a major breakthrough in the field of medical disciplines.
The comprehensive deepening of the strategic cooperation between Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University marks that the development of Tianjin medical discipline is about to enter a new stage. The construction of the new college will gather the superior disciplinary resources of the two universities in medical science and engineering technology, strive to produce high-level scientific and technological achievements, and cultivate top-notch innovative talents, which also marks the substantial advancement of the development plan of combining medical care with nursing care in Tianjin University, and further improve the disciplinary layout of "strengthening engineering, enriching science, prospering literature and promoting medicine", thus reaching a new level in the construction of world-class universities and world-class disciplines.
Li Jiajun, Party Secretary of Tianjin University, and Zhi Yao, Party Secretary of Tianjin Medical University attended the signing ceremony and delivered speeches. Zhong, president of Tianjin University, and Yan Hua, president of Tianjin Medical University, respectively signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of the two universities. More than 100 people attended the signing ceremony, including members of the leading bodies of Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University, heads of relevant departments and representatives of teachers and students. The meeting was presided over by Wang Shuxin, Vice President of Tianjin University.
According to the agreement, the College of Medical Science and Engineering will jointly set up undergraduate majors of Biomedical Engineering and Intelligent Medicine, relying on the national first-class doctoral program of Biomedical Engineering provided by the two universities, and the two universities will jointly enroll students and jointly train them, try the integrated training scheme of "undergraduate-postgraduate-doctor", explore the training mode of top-notch innovative medical talents with medical-engineering composite degrees, and graduate with qualified results. As the first step of discipline integration between the two universities, the new college gradually introduced the dominant disciplines of the two universities, such as pharmacy, biology, machinery, materials, basic medicine, clinical medicine, medical imaging and so on. , form a wider range of disciplines, and provide a platform for Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University to fully carry out in-depth teaching and research cooperation and share resources.
In addition, the two universities will continue to support the cooperative construction of Tianjin Neuroengineering Research Center, combine the existing scientific research strength to build a "future medical science and technology innovation and transformation center", set up a "seed fund", introduce policies of achievement recognition and reward guidance, encourage scholars from both sides to organize teams to jointly tackle major scientific research projects, and cooperate with national and provincial key laboratories, engineering centers and other research bases; The two sides will establish a public service platform for large-scale instruments and equipment, strengthen information communication, realize the "online campus integration construction" of the interconnection of campus network resources between the two sides, and open public information and literature resources such as libraries and databases to teachers and students of the two universities; In terms of academic exchanges, support the promotion of international education, co-organize international conferences and international academic organizations, and actively explore a long-term integrated mechanism of production, learning, research and use in the medical field; In addition, an inter-school talent zone will be established to further promote the deep integration between the two sides.
Li Jiajun fully affirmed the significance of the School of Medical Science and Engineering of Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University to the overall development pattern of the school. He hopes that on the basis of giving full play to the advantages of traditional cooperation between the two sides, he will strengthen communication, boldly explore and try, and strive to embark on a characteristic road of "medical traction, engineering support, transformation and innovation, and clinical demonstration". He stressed that it is necessary to promote and implement the comprehensive deepening strategic cooperation agreement with Tianjin Medical University with Tian's rigorous and pragmatic style, and accelerate the construction of the School of Medical Science and Engineering.
Zhi Yao said that it is very important for Tianjin Medical University to start comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two universities to build a world-class discipline. It is necessary to take the joint construction of the two universities as an opportunity to realize the complementary advantages and disciplinary integration of Tianjin Medical University and Tianjin University as soon as possible, solve the needs and problems arising from clinical practice through the combination of medical and industrial exploration, adhere to clinical orientation, open up new research directions for potential fields such as intelligent medicine, and jointly build a world-class special zone for training high-end medical scientific and technological personnel and a medical scientific research innovation base.
Ming Dong, dean of the Institute of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine of Tianjin University and professor of biomedical engineering discipline responsibility, said that the two universities have the same roots and close cooperation, and the new college is expected to realize the integration and optimization of existing resources and achieve the nonlinear incremental effect of 1+ 1 >:2. The positive chemical reaction produced by the all-round and multi-level cooperation between the two sides in discipline construction, scientific research, personnel training and international exchanges will help to build a leading international biomedical engineering discipline in Tianjin and achieve a win-win situation for both sides.
It is reported that the history of cooperation between Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical University can be traced back to 1978. Zhu, then president of Tianjin University and then president of Tianjin Medical College (predecessor of Tianjin Medical University), had a * * * understanding of the development trend of the world's science and technology frontier, and decided to jointly establish the earliest biomedical engineering specialty in China with the sensitivity of scientists and the courage of educators. This makes Tianjin University one of the first four universities in China to offer this major, which opens the first joint school of medicine and production and lays a good foundation for the development of related majors in the future.
For more than 30 years, the cooperation between the two universities has never stopped. 1980 the first enrollment of biomedical engineering major in Tianjin university adopts the mode of joint enrollment with Tianjin medical college (two universities 10 students) and cooperative training. Tianjin Medical College has deployed the most elite teachers to tailor medical courses for students majoring in biomedical engineering, and this tradition has continued to this day. From 65438 to 0986, Tianjin Medical College established its own biomedical engineering specialty. Most of the initial teachers came from the first two graduates jointly trained by both sides. In 2000, Tianda and Medical University were jointly approved as key disciplines in Tianjin and established postdoctoral mobile stations. In 2009, the two sides jointly established the Tianjin Neuroengineering Research Center, focusing on the emerging frontier research in the field of brain-computer interaction and neuroengineering, forming a unique professional development direction of the two universities.