Introduction to the School of Medicine and Pharmacy 

The School of Medicine and Pharmacy (SMP) of Ocean University of China, which is one of the higher education institutions in China to engaged in the research and development of marine drugs. SMP’s predecessor is the Marine Drug Research Office of the Department of fisheries, Shandong Ocean University, which was founded in 1980 by Mr. Guan Huashi, a famous marine pharmacist in China, the pioneer and founder of modern marine drug research in China, and academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering. After nearly 40 years of development, the college has formed a complete pharmaceutical talent training and scientific research system featuring marine drug research, which has become an important teaching and scientific research force in the field of marine drug.

There are 144 faculty members, including 61 full-time teachers, 35 professors, and 23 associate professors in SMP, including: 1 “academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering”, 1 Young overseas high-level talents introduction plan, 2 National Excellent Youth, Shandong Province 7 Taishan Scholars and 8 Excellent Talents of the New Century by the Ministry of Education. 96.3% of the teacher team have a doctorate degree and 75% have overseas study or work experience. They are outstanding innovation teams of the Ministry of Education and Shandong Province.

SMP has a bachelor's degree in pharmacy, which is a specialty of brand in Shandong Province and a specialty of higher education in the Ministry of Education.Possessing doctorate and master's degree granting rights in first-level disciplines in pharmacy, post-doctoral mobile stations in pharmacy, and professional degree authorization points for pharmacy and pharmaceutical engineering masters, forming a complete pharmacy talent training system from bachelor, master, doctoral to postdoctoral. The discipline of pharmacy is one of the key construction disciplines of the school's 211 Project, 985 Project, and Double Class.

SMP is aimed to develop drugs for preventing and treating major diseases which endanger human life and health based on marine biological resources. It conducts on basic and applied basic research on marine drugs and promotes the transformation and industrialization of achievements.

There also be a multi-level scientific research and innovation platform, including: Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) -Functional Laboratory of Marine Drugs and Biological Products,

National Marine Drug Engineering Technology Research Center, Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Ministry of Education, Shandong provincial key laboratory of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology, Innovation Center of Marine Drug Screening & Evaluation of Shandong province, and the Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao, which aims to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. A science → technology → engineering → industry chain and a complete marine drug research and development innovation platform have been established.

Since its establishment, SMP has achieved a series of remarkable research results. The first modern marine medicine in China--sodium alginate diester (Poly Saccharide Sulphate, PSS) and other 4 marine medicines and a series of marine functional products have been industrialized. There are 4 Class I marine candidate new drugs entering clinical research, of which, Alzheimer's marine candidate new drug 971, which Phase III clinical trial has been completed; it has won the first prize of the first national technological invention in the marine and life sciences field.

SMP is located in the Yushan campus of Ocean University of China. It has a 11,800-square-meter teaching and research building, equipped with international-level instruments and equipment, and has established good cooperative exchanges with many related institutions at home and abroad.