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Department of Histology and Embryology

Date:2021-01-07    Author:     Resource:     Times:

The Department of Histology and Embryology was founded in 1950 by Professor Bao Jianqing, a prestigious histoembryologist in China. For more than half a century, there emerged many famous experts in histology and embryology, including Xie Jinyu, Xu Ping, E Zheng, Yin Xin, Nie Yuxiu, Chen Fochi and Zhu Xiuxiong. They have left us many fine traditions and abundant spiritual wealth. All of the previous directors, including Professor Bao Jianqing, Yin Xin, NieYuxiu, Zou Zhongzhi, Chen Dong, Zhou Li, have made great contributions to the construction and development of the Department.

In 1978, the Department became one of the first to be authorized to confer master's degrees, and in 2000 to confer doctor's degrees. At present, we have 4 professors, 5 associate professors and 3 lecturers, all of whom have doctoral degrees. We undertake the responsibilities of teaching different bachelor majors including the 5-year clinical medicine, clinical medicine (5+3), radiation medicine, stomatology, preventive medicine, care medicine, rehabilitation medical technology,clinical pharmacyand pharmacy. We are also involved in the teaching for postgraduate and overseas students. We were awarded the titles of "Innovative Demonstration Course", "Discipline Education Demonstration Course", "Excellent Course of Jilin University" and "Excellent Course of Jilin Province".

So far, we have more than 10 projects on teaching reform and teaching research. We won the second prize of Excellent Textbooks of the Ministry of Education in 2002; the first prize of Provincial Teaching Achievement of Higher Education in Jilin Province and the first prize of Teaching Achievement of Jilin University in 2005; the second prize of Jilin University Teaching Achievement in 2018; the first prize of the third Teaching Contest for National Basic Medical Teachers and the first prize of the Fifth National College Students Basic Medical Innovation Forum and Experimental Design Competition in 2018.

In terms of scientific research, the Department has undertaken and completed one major project of NSFC, 8 general projects, and several provincial and ministerial projects. We published more than 100 papers in domestic and foreign journals including more than 50 SCI papers. We won the second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Changchun Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995, the third prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the State Education Commission in 1997 and the second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award in Jilin Province in 2003.