中英携手开新局！宁波诺丁汉大学生命健康学院正式成立

Please scroll down for the English version-UNNC launches School of Health and Life Sciences, marking a new milestone in Sino-UK cooperation.

7月17日，宁波诺丁汉大学生命健康学院成立大会隆重举行。学院由英国诺丁汉大学与宁波诺丁汉大学联合共建，并于今年1月英国首相访华期间重磅宣布，成为中英务实合作的重要组成部分。

学院将对接健康中国战略，充分发挥中外合作办学优势，打通国际前沿技术与国内临床需求、生物医药产业、应用场景的双向融通通道，构建从基础研究、技术攻关到产业落地的跨国协同创新生态，推动科研成果从实验室走向临床、惠及大众；并汇聚中外顶尖智慧，打造立足宁波、联动长三角、服务国家、联通全球的国际化创新与人才培育平台，培养下一代医疗健康行业领军者与创新人才，为中国乃至全球医疗健康事业变革贡献力量。

宁波市人民政府副市长黄炯，中国科学院院士、宁波诺丁汉大学校长谢心澄，英国医学科学院院士、英国诺丁汉大学执行校长简·诺曼（Jane Norman），英国驻上海总领事包迈岫（Matt Burney）出席大会并致辞。大会由宁波诺丁汉大学对外关系副校长邱国平主持。

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共话中英合作

各界寄予厚望

大会在庄重而热烈的氛围中拉开帷幕。谢心澄校长致欢迎辞，向莅临现场的各位领导、嘉宾表示诚挚欢迎与衷心感谢。他指出，生命健康产业是国家战略性新兴产业，学院将紧扣科教融合、产研协同的发展导向，对接宁波建设长三角生命健康产业高地的部署安排，匹配区域生物医药、高端医疗装备、健康服务等产业的人才供给与技术需求，开启学校服务大健康领域、深耕前沿科研创新的全新征程。

谢心澄校长

简·诺曼教授代表英国诺丁汉大学致辞。她表示，诺丁汉大学在医学与健康科学领域拥有顶尖实力与全球声誉——药学与药理学全球第8、生命科学与医学全球第68，学校将投入核心资源与权威专家，深度参与并全力支持学院的学科建设，聚力打造产学研医深度融合的全新生态体系。

简·诺曼教授

“产业要壮大，关键在人才，根本在教育。”黄炯副市长高度肯定了宁波诺丁汉大学对地方发展的重要贡献。他指出，宁波正全力打造上海（长三角）国际科技创新中心关键支点城市、建设中国首批新型工业化示范区，生命健康是宁波重点布局的六大战略性新兴产业集群之一，学院成立是宁波补齐生命健康领域高端学科供给与高能级科创平台短板的关键举措。

他表示，希望学院坚守国际化办学特色，加速前沿科研成果落地转化，深度融入中国教育对外开放和健康中国战略，为区域高质量发展和民生福祉持续贡献力量。

黄炯副市长

包迈岫总领事表示，生命健康是中英合作中最具务实价值和人文温度的领域。

他指出，两国在医学教育、科研创新、公共卫生等方面优势互补，合作前景广阔。新学院的成立，将进一步推动两国在教学、科研、产业创新上的深度联动，培养兼具国际视野的健康领域人才，为应对全球性健康挑战、深化中英双边合作贡献重要力量。

包迈岫总领事

在全场热烈的掌声中，与会领导和嘉宾共同为宁波诺丁汉大学生命健康学院揭牌，并举行了产业合作伙伴签约仪式和学院战略发展顾问委员会成员任命仪式。

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强强联手

两校优势 “双向奔赴”

宁波诺丁汉大学副校长兼生命健康学院院长潘诺阳（Panos Vlachopoulos）教授介绍了宁波诺丁汉大学生命健康学院2026-2030发展规划，系统阐述学院的建设目标、学科布局和发展路径。

生命健康学院深度融合英国诺丁汉大学在生命健康领域的顶尖科教资源与宁波诺丁汉大学扎根中国、服务本土发展的独特优势，聚焦药学、心理学、生物医学工程、健康大数据、公共卫生等关键领域，布局本、硕、博完整培养体系。

潘诺阳（Panos Vlachopoulos）教授

学院坚持人才强院理念，广泛吸纳三甲医院、顶尖科研院所及产业界的领军人才，聚力打造以国际顶尖人才为核心、汇聚行业权威专家的高水平师资队伍；重点布局生物医学科学、药学、心理学、医疗健康大数据等特色学科集群，分阶段推进各层级学位点建设，自2026年起有序开展本硕博各学段招生，精准适配行业高端人才需求。

签约仪式

与此同时，在宁波市教育局高度重视，全市各相关部门协同联动、专项政策精准赋能的全方位支撑下，学院统筹布局全链条科创载体，规划设立国际博士创新中心、产业发展研究院及一批校企共建国际联合实验室、校院共建临床研究平台，并设立专项科创基金；聚焦科研创新与产业协同，联动长三角高校、科研院所、行业龙头企业及市属三甲医院，围绕临床实践、药物研发、合成生物学、医疗器械开展深度务实合作，推进人才互聘、资源共享与联合攻关，加速前沿生命健康技术落地转化，赋能区域生命健康产业提质升级，全面构建“学科建设、人才培养、科研创新、成果转化”四位一体高质量发展格局，打造跨区域、国际化高层次人才培养与科技创新平台。

乔纳森·加里波第（Jon Garibaldi）教授

“我们这个时代面临的重大健康挑战，不受国界、学科或机构的局限。应对这些挑战，我们需要全新的思路——融合国际顶尖专业力量与本土实际需求，以严谨科研创造现实价值。”

宁波诺丁汉大学执行校长乔纳森·加里波第（Jon Garibaldi）教授在闭幕致辞中表示，这正是新学院的核心使命：坚守“世界智慧，中国方案”办学实践，联通英国科研优势与中国健康发展重点，让全球智慧服务本土需求，培育兼具跨学科思维、专业深度与社会担当的复合型人才，赋能长三角及全国生命健康产业高质量发展。

多位院士专家、驻华外交代表、行业领导发表主旨分享，聚焦中英医疗合作、产业发展趋势，共探生命健康领域前沿机遇与创新路径。

英国诺丁汉大学副校长Zoe Wilson教授，生命科学学院院长Clive Roberts教授，药学院院长Barrie Kellam教授，宁波市、区两级相关职能部门代表，宁波诺丁汉大学主要校领导以及医疗、产业、科研、媒体领域各界嘉宾到场，共同见证这一重要时刻。

UNNC launches School of Health and Life Sciences, marking a new milestone in Sino-UK cooperation

On 17 July, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) officially launched its new School of Health and Life Sciences. Jointly established by the University of Nottingham (UoN) and UNNC, the school was announced during the UK Prime Minister’s visit to China in January this year, marking a key milestone in practical Sino-UK collaboration.

Aligned with the Healthy China Initiative, the school focuses on key areas such as pharmacy, psychology, biomedical engineering, health big data, and public health. It will serve as a hub for talent development for the next generation of leaders and innovators, and as an international innovation ecosystem spanning basic research, technological innovation, and commercialisation, transforming the medical and health industry in China and beyond.

By 2028, the school will have built a teaching and research team centred on internationally leading scholars and experts, with full-time enrolment across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programmes.

A shared vision for Sino-UK cooperation

Professor Xincheng Xie, President of UNNC and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) noted in his welcome speech that the life and health sector is a strategic emerging industry, and that the new school will closely align with China’s development priorities during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, integrate Sino-foreign cooperative education, research, and industry, and support Ningbo’s ambition to become a hub for the development of health services, biomedicine, and high-end medical devices in the Yangtze River Delta.

Professor Jane Norman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, said that the establishment of the school is closely aligned with the life sciences development strategies of both the UK and China. She noted that the university has world-leading expertise and a strong global reputation in medicine and health sciences, ranking eighth globally for Pharmacy and Pharmacology and 68th for Life Sciences and Medicine. “The new school will create a new ecosystem in which academia, the health sector, and industry work side by side, bringing together the best expertise from all three,” she said, while affirming the university’s long-term commitment to the school’s success.

“The establishment of the school is a concrete response to a simple reality: the great health challenges of our time do not respect borders, disciplines, or institutions,” Professor Jon Garibaldi, Provost of UNNC said. “To meet them, we need a different approach, one that combines world-class expertise with local relevance, and rigorous research with real-world impact. The new school connects the UK's research strength with China's health priorities, global expertise with local needs. That is what ‘Global Expertise, China Solution’ means in practice. Our students will graduate with interdisciplinary thinking, professional depth, and social responsibility to drive the health and life sciences industry forward, here in the Yangtze River Delta and beyond.”

Jiong Huang, Vice Mayor of the Ningbo Municipal Government, said industrial growth depends on talent, and talent depends on education. He praised UNNC’s contribution to local development, noting that health and life sciences is one of Ningbo’s six strategic emerging industry clusters and a priority area as the city works to become a key pivot city for the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Innovation Centre. He said the new school will serve as a high-calibre science and innovation platform, helping strengthen Ningbo’s high-level academic and innovation capacity, and expressed hope that it will uphold its international character, accelerate research translation, and support regional development and the Healthy China Initiative.

Congratulating UNNC on this important milestone, Matt Burney, British Consul General in Shanghai, said, “Health is one of the most practical and human areas of cooperation between our two countries. When we bring those strengths together carefully and practically, the benefits can be real — for patients, for students, for researchers, and for our wider societies. UNNC has always had a special place in the UK-China education relationship. It can help develop future health leaders, support research with real-world application, and bring UK and Chinese expertise together in areas where both our societies need progress.”

During the launch event, leading academicians, experts, diplomatic representatives, and industry leaders delivered keynote speeches on China-UK healthcare collaboration, industry development trends, and emerging opportunities and innovative pathways in the life and health sciences. Leaders and guests also jointly unveiled the School of Life and Health Sciences, witnessed the signing ceremony with industry partners, and attended the appointment ceremony for members of the school’s Strategic Development Advisory Committee.

Bringing together the strengths of both universities

The newly launched School of Health and Life Sciences brings together the University of Nottingham’s world-leading academic and research resources in life and health sciences with UNNC’s unique strengths as a Sino-foreign cooperative university rooted in China and dedicated to serving local development needs.

According to Professor Panos Vlachopoulos, Vice Provost for Education and Student Experience and Interim Head of the School of Health and Life Sciences, the school is developing a comprehensive array of science and technology innovation platforms, including plans to establish an International Doctoral Innovation Centre, an Industrial Development Institute, a series of university-enterprise joint laboratories, and university-hospital clinical research platforms, complemented by a dedicated sci-tech innovation fund, thanks to strong support from the Ningbo Municipal Education Bureau, close coordination among relevant departments across the city, and targeted policy support.

Focusing on clinical practice, drug development, synthetic biology, and medical devices, the school will collaborate closely with universities, research institutes, leading industry enterprises, and municipal top-tier hospitals across the Yangtze River Delta to advance joint talent appointments, resource sharing, and joint research initiatives.

These efforts will accelerate the translation and application of cutting-edge life and health technologies, support the upgrading of the regional life and health industry, and establish a comprehensive high-quality development ecosystem covering discipline development, talent cultivation, research innovation, and commercialisation. Ultimately, it aims to create a cross-regional, international platform for high-calibre talent development and technological innovation.

The launch ceremony was also attended by Professor Zoe Wilson, Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Science; Professor Clive Roberts, Head of the School of Life Sciences; and Professor Barrie Kellam, Head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham.

图文来源：Lucrecia Zhou，Fred Zhang

电子编辑：Suri An

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