Recently,  ZJU SDG Global Summer School Human Health: Advanced in Basic Research and Application Module was held in Zijingang Campus. 22 young students from all over the world participated in the program and learned about the basics and applications of pharmacy through a rich curriculum, practical visits and cultural exchanges. Dean Zhen Gu attended the opening ceremony and taught the first class. Vice dean Xiangnan Zhang introduced the program.

During the two-week period, students carried out course study, literature reading, experimental operation, academic seminars and debriefing exchanges around the topics of intelligent drug delivery, target discovery, stem cell preparation, artificial intelligence pharmacy, biotechnology drugs, and modernisation research of traditional Chinese medicines, so as to understand and experience the theoretical knowledge and application of pharmacy in an all-round way.

During the course, the students went out of the classroom, visited the Jinhua Research Institute of Zhejiang University, the Hu Qingyu Tang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the laboratories of the CPS-ZJU, and the History Museum of Zhejiang University.

The course was assessed in the form of group reporting, with each group summarising and reporting their learning on six topics, including intelligent drug delivery, target discovery, stem cell preparation, artificial intelligence pharmacy, biotechnology drugs, and modernisation of traditional Chinese medicine research. Vice President Zhang Xiangnan issued certificates of completion to the students and congratulated them.