Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSMH, SYSU)

As the first western medical hospital in China, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSMH, SYSU) is named after the founding father of modern China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who once studied medicine here. Affiliated to the prestigious Sun Yat-sen University, the 186-year institution has developed into a top ranking general hospital in China, integrating medical treatment, disease prevention, healthcare, teaching, with high quality scientific research.

Integral to SYSU’s clinical medicine programme, which is ranked among the global top 1% in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) subject area ranking, SYSMH plays a key role in the programme’s selection for the national “double first-class” initiative. With seven national key disciplines, 16 Guangdong provincial high-level clinical key disciplines, 23 Guangdong provincial clinical key disciplines, SYSMH features on the following “7+1” academic clusters, including malignant tumours, cardiovascular systems, head and neck diseases, gynaecology and paediatrics, geriatrics and rehabilitation, immunology and metabolism, emerging infectious diseases, and comprehensive scientific research system.

SYSMH aims to provide new PIs with a productive research environment to start their careers. Oriented by disease diagnosis and guided by disciplines construction, SYSMH has built mature platforms for public scientific research, including the Basic and Translational Medical Research Center, the Clinical Research Center, and the Medical Engineering Research Center. It has also got one international scientific collaboration base for long noncoding RNA and difficult diseases, three national platforms specializing in complicated diseases, big data and tumour microenvironment, respectively, as well as one provincial key laboratory and 13 provincial platforms covering targeted tumour therapy, stem cell, breast cancer, arrhythmia, and electrophysiology.