Tianjin Medical College, the predecessor of Tianjin Medical University, was founded in 195 1. It is the first medical school approved by the State Council after the founding of New China. Professor Zhu, a famous endocrinologist and medical educator, served as the first dean. 1993 Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government decided to merge Tianjin Medical College and Tianjin Second Medical College to form Tianjin Medical University, which was approved by the State Education Commission in June of the same year. 1June, 1994, Tianjin Medical University was formally established. The current party secretary of the school is Professor Zhi Yao, and the principal is Professor Yongfeng Shang, a famous biochemist and molecular biologist and academician of China Academy of Sciences. The school is a national "2 1 1 project" key construction institution.