On the afternoon of December 30, 2020, SUES held the Conference for Promoting Construction of Pharmaceutical Discipline on the campus of Yixian Road. Vice President Wang Yansong, Academician Hou Huimin, Director of the Center for Intelligent Pharmaceutical Formulation and Intelligent Manufacturing Research, together with other experts attended the meeting. Heads of functional departments and schools participate in the conference, including Personnel Office, Institute of Advanced Study, Asset and Laboratory Management Office, the Infrastructure Department, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and the College of Advanced Vocational-Technical Education.
During the conference, Head of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering introduced the construction of the Pharmaceutical Discipline at the previous stage. The relevant functional departments reviewed the advancement of the previous work in terms of talent introduction, team building, discipline direction, laboratory housing, laboratory transformation, etc., and followed up with discussion of working plans and difficulties.
Vice President Wang Yansong fully affirmed the preliminary laboratory construction of the Center for Intelligent Pharmaceutical Formulation and Intelligent Manufacturing Research, and the declaration of provincial and ministerial platforms, putting forward requirements for the next step. First, the construction of doctoral programs should be the key goal for the 14th Five-Year Plan for the construction of the Pharmaceutical Discipline; the second is to complete the establishment, organization, and personnel arrangements of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Frontier Technology as soon as possible; the third is to combine responsibilities from related departments in a series of service guarantee for the follow-up disciplines, scientific research, and talent introduction to the Institute, so as to ensure that the Institute starts well, and contributes to the 14th Five-Year Plan on discipline development and scientific research work.
Hou Huimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Intelligent Formulation and Intelligent Manufacturing, proposed ideas and requirements on the organizational structure, talent introduction, team building and other aspects of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Frontier Technology. That is to establish the Institute of Pharmaceutical Frontier Technology as the core carrier and resource platform for the Pharmaceutical Discipline.