Pharmacological Science

Founded in 1986, Pharmacological College is one of the oldest schools of the university. Formerly the Department of Chinese Medicine, it was renamed as the Department of Pharmaceutics in 1999 and then again renamed as School of Pharmaceutics in 2006. The school offered the vocational specialty of Chinese medicine in 1986, the Chinese medicine undergraduate specialty in 1994, the pharmaceutical preparation specialty in 2000, the pharmaceutics specialty in 2001, the food science and engineering specialty in 2003 and the medical herb cultivation and certification specialty. Currently the school has five undergraduate specialties, three research institutes of pharmaceutical preparation, Chinese medicine resources and pharmacology respectively, five faulty offices for pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceutical chemistry, food, mathematics, and Chinese medicine, as well as six Zhejiang province key laboratories such as the Chinese medical preparation laboratory and Chinese medicine resource engineering laboratory, etc.; it has two tier-one-discipline postgraduate study programs for Chinese medicine and pharmaceutics, one Chinese medicine doctorate program and one Chinese medicine postdoctoral mobile research station; it is one of the few colleges that have in place a rather complete list of medical disciplines, are concentrated both in Chinese and western medicines, and capable of cultivation high-level talents including college students, masters and doctors.

Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZCMU) is located near the south bank of Qiantang River, in the city of Hangzhou, a world-famous tourist resort known for its beautiful scenery and rich cultural heritage. ZCMU is a teaching and research-oriented university with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Chinese Materia Medica as its leading subjects. As a key university in Zhejiang Province, it is jointly constructed by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

Traced back to Zhejiang Training School of TCM in June 1953, Zhejiang College of TCM was officially founded in June 1959. It was eligible for awarding a doctoral degree in 1998 and moved to Hangzhou-based Binjiang Higher Education Zone in 2000. In February 2006, it was renamed as Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZCMU). In September 2015, Fuchun Campus was put into use. The university now has two campuses covering an area of nearly 1,000 mu, with the total construction area exceeding 470,000 square meters.

ZCMU now sets schools including the First School of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medicine, the Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), the Fourth School of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou School of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Clinical Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Stomatology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Nursing, School of Medical Technology and Information Engineering, School of Life Sciences, School of Humanities and Management, School of Continuing Education, International Education College, Institute of Marxism, Department of Physical Education, and Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ZCMU has 3 directly affiliated hospitals, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine), the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Xinhua Hospital of Zhejiang Province), and the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhongshan Hospital of Zhejiang Province). Moreover, there are another 22 Hospitals located in different cities of Zhejiang Province affiliated to ZCMU.