In recent years, the college has been supported by the "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project". Under the key construction of the school, the School of Life has made great progress in discipline construction, scientific research, teaching and other aspects through the development in recent years. Formed an academic backbone team with young and middle-aged academic leaders as the main body and influential academic direction. He has undertaken the Tenth Five-Year Key Projects, the "973" and "863", the National Natural Science Foundation of China and several major projects in Shanghai, and the research funds have increased steadily year by year. Won the National Natural Science Award, the National Teaching Achievement Award, the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award and many other awards; A number of remarkable scientific research achievements at home and abroad have been produced; Natural Genetics, Natural Chemical Biology, PNAS, Plant Cells, Journal of Bacteriology, Microbiology, Chemistry &; Papers have been published in international authoritative scientific journals such as Biology, Molecular Microbiology and AEM.