The Department of Pharmacology of Nanjing Medical University is one of the earliest disciplines authorized to confer Marster’s degrees (1981) and Doctor’s degrees (1986) in China. The Department has a key discipline approved by Jiangsu Province in 1994, and holds a postdoctoral training center set up in 2000.
The Department boasts a well-developed teaching and researching faculty. There are 5 professors and 2 associate professors, of whom all have overseas studying/ working experiences, 10 hold a doctorate, and 5 are doctoral supervisors.

We are responsible for teaching Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology to students of various specialties, for example, Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and Forensic Medicine, with a mean of more than 2400 class hours a year. We accept 10~12 master’s and 6~8 PhD students every year. In teaching, we do our best to get excellent results. Several of our postgraduate students have won different kinds of honors. For example, one of them won National Best PhD Dissertation of the Year award. We have as editor or co-editor produced several textbooks, and have participated in the composition of many reference books. In addition, we have lectured on Pharmacology in English to international students and postgraduate students for years.

Our research fields cover diverse areas, such as Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Neural Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology, Molecular Pharmacology and Tumor Pharmacology. Several of our researches have been standing in the advanced ranks or in the leading position, such as the researches on neurobiology of neural degeneration diseases, cellular signal transduction in cardiovascular diseases, the pathology and the neural protecting mechanisms of cerebral ischemia, new drug-target for treating non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and clinical pharmacology. We have won a national key grant for New Drugs and a national key grant for basic medicine, and several grants from National Natural Science Foundation, National Ministry of Education and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. More than 5 of our researches have earned us commendations from the provincial government. In the last 5 years, we have published more than 200 papers, among which more than 80 are SCI papers.

Director:Qingping Li(M.D.,PhD, Professor and supervisor of Master’s candidates)
Deputy Director:Bing Wang(M.D.,PhD, Professor and supervisor of doctoral candidates)
　　　　　　　　　Jian Yang(M.D.,PhD,Associate Professor)
　　　　　　　　　Xiulan Sun(M.D.,PhD,Lecture)
Office Tel:0086-25-86863108