Profile

The Institutes of Biomedical Sciences is a research and teaching institution established by Inner Mongolia University(IMU) to expand and strengthen the discipline of biology as a first-class discipline. Aiming at the key needs of the country and health of the people, the institutes gather together the excellent talents and advantageous resources Fudan University and IMU have and carry out the interdisciplinary development and innovative research in biology and clinical medicine on the phenotypic characteristics of the people in the northern steppe zone and common diseases among them.

Goals

Putting the biomedical research at the core of its work, the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences of IMU intends to boost the interdisciplinary development of chemistry, physics, electronics and big data, cultivate the new disciplinary development aspects, produce high-level and original research achievements, develop new technologies which the institutes have intellectual property rights and boost the transformation of the achievements of its basic research to build a national or international research center for the fields concerned and improve the transformation of its research results in basic research and application of IMU in biomedical field. With Jin Li, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, as its core, the institutes establish an interdisciplinary and high-level talent team for scientific research, which gather high-level researchers in the disciplines concerned, and build a base for top-notch innovative talents in biomedical research. With the first-class talent teams, first-class academic research achievements, first-class contributions to the society and first-class research platform as its goal, the institutes carry out discipline development and innovative research to support IMU in its development of biology as a first-class discipline and serve the strategy of “Revitalize Inner Mongolia with Science and Technology”.

Key Research Focuses

1. Metabolism and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

2. Development and reproductive health

3. Immunity and infectious diseases

4. Biomedicine and new technologies for medical diagnosis and treatment