Shandong University pursues global excellence

She added that Shandong University has created research teams with both domestic and international influences in sectors including angiocardiopathy, geotechnical engineering, reproductive medicine, finance and mathematics.

Shandong University gained four national awards at the National Science and Technology Award Conference on Jan 8.

Zhang Cheng, professor of the Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, won second prize of the State Natural Science Awards.

Zhang's research team on angiocardiopathy has more than 350 national and provincial subjects under the national 973 Plan, the 863 Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with a total fund of some 270 million yuan.

It has referred the pathogenesis, testing method and intervention target for worldwide cardiovascular care to be restructured for the first time. The team has also won eight national science and technology awards and more than 70 provincial awards.

Also, the university's geotechnical engineering team has worked hard in preventing and researching water and mud disasters of underground projects.

They developed advanced detection technology and instruments and built a warning system for the drilling and blasting sector, which has been installed in more than 200 tunnels.

It has won second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards four times.

To further improve the university's scientific and innovative abilities, it founded a research institute on advanced technologies in November last year.

Fan said that the institute is aiming to cultivate a batch of top scientific elites who will help Shandong become a new hub for international cooperation in academic fields.

The institute will conduct basic and applied research on frontier physics and cutting-edge technologies.

Shandong University has also set up 12 high-level innovative teams and strives to be a base for leading experts.