In September 2014, China Pharmaceutical University established the School of Engineering by integrating engineering-related disciplines previously distributed across the School of Pharmacy, School of Life Science and Technology, and School of Science, with the aim of optimizing disciplinary structure and fostering an improved academic ecosystem. Supported by engineering and technology, the School is positioned as a teaching- and research-oriented institution dedicated to pharmaceutical development and distinguished by strong interdisciplinary integration. It is committed to the philosophy of being “small but excellent,” emphasizing focused development and high-level academic excellence.
The School currently has 133 faculty and staff members, including 99 full-time faculty and 13 postdoctoral researchers, and enrolls 1478 students, comprising 928 undergraduates, 437 master’s students, and 108 doctoral students. It consists of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Food Nutrition and Safety, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Diagnostic Pharmacy, and the GMP Training Center. Among the full-time faculty, 22 hold full professorships, 43 hold associate professorships, and 63 serve as graduate supervisors. In recent years, the School has achieved remarkable progress in research and innovation, securing numerous prestigious projects and platforms, including the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Pharmaceutical Engineering, National Key R&D Program projects, Major International Cooperative Projects and Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Major Scientific Research Instrument Development Projects, the Excellent Young Scientists Fund, and the Jiangsu Outstanding Young Scientists Fund.
The School currently offers four undergraduate programs: Pharmaceutical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Food Nutrition and Health (Food Quality and Safety), and Environmental Science. It is authorized to confer doctoral and master’s degrees in the first-level discipline of Biomedical Engineering, as well aa doctoral and master’s degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutical Engineering), a second-level discipline within Pharmaceutical Sciences. In addition, the School offers professional degree programs in Biology & Medicine and Food & Nutrition.
The School has established a GMP-compliant Training Center that meets the latest Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards and serves as a provincial-level comprehensive disciplinary training center. The facility operates seven production workshops, covering solid dosage forms, injections, lyophilized powder injections, biopharmaceuticals, traditional Chinese medicine extraction, pharmaceutical synthesis, and utility engineering. With a total floor area of 4,800 square meters, including 3,600 square meters of cleanroom facilities, the center functions as an integrated platform for large-scale, systematic, and information-based practical education and process optimization.
The School fosters a dynamic and innovation-driven research environment, supported by a range of advanced research platforms, including biological testing laboratories, chemical synthesis laboratories, pharmaceutical engineering experimental center, molecular biology experimental centers, the microbiology experimental center, the separation and purification technology experimental center, the chromatographic instrumentation experimental center, and the drug molecular imaging center. The School is also equipped with state-of-the-art research facilities and instrumentation, including a small-animal radionuclide SPECT/CT imaging system and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), providing strong support for both teaching and cutting-edge scientific research.
The School is committed to building a high-level engineering school characterized by strong engineering support, interdisciplinary integration, and a distinctive pharmaceutical focus, with the mission of serving the advancement of the pharmaceutical industry. Leveraging the University’s strengths in pharmaceutical sciences, the School will continue to pursue innovation across all stages of drug research and development, actively advancing discipline and platform development, talent cultivation and curriculum design, research environment enhancement and strategic research planning, faculty development, and the recruitment of outstanding scholars and professionals.