Jiangsu Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for MicroRNA

Organization

Jiangsu Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for MicroRNA is affiliated to Nanjing University, with a building area of about 200 square meters. The center is equipped with a standard site and complete research infrastructure, including many large, advanced apparatus and a perfect system for cell and animal cultivation. Meanwhile, the center and Taizhou Medicine Center jointly build a prophylactic medicine base of the first class nationally, a purifying factory and a pilot test base that meets GMP standard, which successfully set up the industrial-academic collaboration. The center now has 25 regular members, including 6 professors, 10 associate professors, and 9 lecturer. All of them are teachers of NJU and get their doctor degree in fields like biochemistry, molecular biology, virology, immunology and bio information.

Achievements

The center is devoted to studying and developing a series of diagnosing products and drug treatments based on miRNA, which can be applied in clinical diagnosis and treatment of diseases in hospitals of all levels and in the prevention, diagnosis and control of epidemic diseases in disease prevention and control center of all levels, creating noticeable socio-economic benefit. At the same time, through professional consultation service and education training system, the center has built cooperation with hospitals and disease prevention and control organizations, expanding and consolidating the application and popularization of research results. At present, a testing kit for pancreatic cancer serummiRNA developed by the center has been conferred an national third-class registered certificate for medical instrument and equipment, the first product to apply serum miRAN testing technology to clinical diagnosis in the world. The center is also developing early diagnosing and treating products for other serious diseases, and some of them is under the test for clinical application.