AMU insists on an important concept since its foundation to promote interdisciplinarity and combination of teaching and scientific research with clinical activities. An important step in combining the strength of medication and medical research was the realization of the necessity for expansion of the campus and establishment of additional affiliated hospitals for students practice and young scientists training. The Teaching and Research Building in the campus provides both domestic and returned overseas scientists with well-equiped laboratories and net access. The First University Hospital and the University Hospital of Dentistry enjoy high reputation in the east of the cent: ral country and other three newly set up hospitals have been put into use since years ago, with a total number of 3000 sickbeds. These university affiliated hospitals fulfil their functions and perform their duties in clinical treatment, research, teaching, and courses of study. In addition to the “hardware” construction, the university has been focusing on both basic and applied research, ranking in top one of the province-owned academic institutions in the grant harvest from the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and featuring several recognized special areas such as dermatology and venereal diseases, which is now the National Key Discipline with several significant achievements in Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) of psoriasis and other dermal lesions. Pharmacology shares one of the main research areas and involves the screening and characterization of efficacious compounds from Traditional Chinese Medical Herbs. This subject was the first one to be granted independent doctorial degree award in the province. Other disciplines including epidemiology, infectious diseases (microbiology and parasitology), aging and regenerative research, maternal and child care, gastroenterology, neurology: and psychology, gynaecology and obstetrics, and organ transplantations, etc. are also responsible for fostering the new generation of scientists and further training of staff and recognized as well for their talents and overwhelming achievements in the state.
The research profile of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine of AMU is characterized by the following main areas:
* Dermatology (gene variants in some skin disorders and the relevant autoimmune diseases e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE)
* Clinical pharmacology (anti-inflammatory immunity)
* Oncology and molecular pathology
* Infectious diseases (including their pathogens of parasites and viruses) and immunology
* Neurosciences
* Gynaecology and obstetrics(Assisted reproductive technology)
* Gerontology(Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases)
* Organ transplantations
The research profile of the Faculties of Preventive Medicine and Health Management of AMU is characterized by the following main areas:
* Epidemiology and statistics
* Maternal and child care
* Toxicology
* Health economics
* Health informatics
* Hospital information system
The research profile of the Faculties of dentistry of AMU is characterized by the following main areas:
* Maxillo-facial surgery
* Parodontopathy
* Stomatologic esthetics
* Biomaterial of dentistry
The research profile of the Nursing School of AMU is characterized by the following main areas:
* Nursing psychology
* Medical Nursing
* Surgical Nursing
* Critical Care
All the main areas mentioned above are the research networks, financially supported by a variety of providers from national and provincial governments– by numerous projects and involve basic, clinical, and preventive medicine. The central concern in all cases is to enhance the cross-talk of interdisciplinarity and improve the molecular understanding of pathogenesis and profound knowledge of etiology with the aim of developing new and more efficient methods of prevention, diagnosis and therapy.
