Discipline of Pathogen Biology of Nanjing Medical University was authorized to confer doctoral degrees in 1981,approved as a Jiangsu Provincial key discipline in 1993 and a national key discipline nurturing base for Jiangsu higher institutions in 2005. Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Modern Pathogen Biology was set up in the Discipline in 2004.

The Discipline has a staff of 28, including 5 supervisors of doctoral candidates and 3 supervisors of master’s students. The Discipline, for the past five years, has won 56 research projects above the provincial or ministerial level, among which there was one national key project of the tenth Five-Year Plan, two 863 Program projects and 18 ?National Natural Science Foundation projects (including 1 key project). Research and construction funds obtained amount to RMB￥12.4 million. Seven books and 135 academic papers have been published by the faculty members, among which there were 32 SCI papers. It has won 7 awards of advances in science and technology above the provincial or ministerial level. The Discipline has hosted one international academic conference and three national academic conferences.

Welcome to the Discipline for a PhD, a master’s degree and postdoctoral research.

Main Research Directions:
1.Immunological Parasitology of Infectious Diseases:　Wu Guanling, Professor
2.Biology and Immunology of Vaccines:　Zhang Zhaosong, Professor, Su Chuan, PhD, Associate Professor
3.Molecular Bases of Pesticide and Drug Resistance:　Zhu Changliang PhD, Professor
4.Pathogen and Diagnosis of Endemic Diseases:　Tang Jiaqi, Professor