The Department of Medical Genetics was founded in 1983. The faculty consists of 8 teaching staff, including 2 professors, 4 associate professors and 2 lecturers. Four of them have experiences of studying and working abroad.
The departmental teaching mainly covers medical genetics theory lessons and experiment courses for undergraduate students with the 5-year medical degree program, clinical medicine (5+3) and English-speaking international undergraduate students, as well as medical genetics teaching for postgraduate students and English-speaking international graduate students. We have included PBL teaching in genetic case studies for the experimental courses and integrated with clinical practice during the teaching. This enriches the teaching process by enhancing the students' enthusiasm for learning and further cultivates students' independent learning, thinking and comprehensive analysis ability. Up to now, we have completed more than ten educational projects and published more than ten educational research papers and also a textbook for graduate students.
Research work mainly focused on the association studies of human common metabolic diseases, bioinformatics tools development, the study of the molecular mechanism of diabetes, tumor cells and neutrophil migration, the study of the anti-osteoporosis and anti-oxidative stress effects of natural medicine compounds by network pharmacology methods and cell models, the comprehensive study on the potential role of tumor genesis based on data mining and bioinformatics, the study of chromosome karyotype in abnormal pregnancy and genetic counseling.
In the past ten years, there are more than 7 million yuan of research funds received from various grants, including Natural Science Foundation Projects, National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), and Projects of Science and Technology Department and Health Department of Jilin Province. We have published more than 100 scientific research papers which includes more than 30 SCI papers. We have also succeeded in obtaining 6 patents and won 2 third prize of Jilin Science and Technology Progress Award . The department has 2 doctoral supervisors and 4 master’s degree supervisors, and has cultivated more than 60 graduate students.
