All granted with full scholarship which covers tuition fee, accommodation fee on campus, living allowance as well as medical insurance.

• Tuition fee: CNY 24,800
• Accommodation on campus: CNY 32,000
• International student medical insurance: CNY 3,200 (Relevant medical insurance items can be found at www.lxbx.net)
• Living allowance: CNY 64, 400 (CNY 1,400 per month for 46 months).

Biomedical informatics encompasses the study of information and computation in biology and health. Researchers in this area create computational tools to manage, share and study information and generate knowledge from biomedical data.

The first year of the programme is an exciting exploration of the application of biomedical informatics, facilitating student development in the key areas of biomedical sciences. The programme will build extensively on the existing BSc Biomedical Sciences courses which students will study together with peers from this programme while introducing new courses in all four years. 

The goal of the programme is to train undergraduate students in the overarching principles of Biomedical Informatics and apply these skills in fundamental biomedical research.

Programme Structure

Year one Biomedical Informatics in Context

Integrative Biomedical Sciences 1

In Integrative Biomedical Sciences 1 (IBMS1) you will develop a foundational core biological knowledge in the context of a biomedical background. The course will provide a broad introduction to all aspects of the application of biomedical informatics to biomedical sciences.

In Semester 1 you will critically explore foundational concepts in biology like cell theory, evolution, and the genetic basis of life. In Semester 2 you will explore key physiological systems (nervous, endocrine, gastrointestinal, immune, cardiovascular and pulmonary). Throughout the course you will develop your communication, laboratory and group-work skills. You will also develop foundational skills in experimental design and statistical analyses, and explore issues in bioethics.

A major focus is the development of the skills required to support your learning, particularly the use of scientific language and communication skills. The course emphasises formative assessment and provides numerous feedback opportunities to help you manage the transitions experienced by students entering higher education.

Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology 1

Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology 1 (ICMB1) will introduce you to fundamental concepts in cellular and molecular biology. You will have encountered some of these concepts in your previous study, for instance in IBMS1, but this course is an opportunity to take a closer look and go into more depth. We will start by looking at proteins, then spend a few weeks looking at how cells are structured and how they work, and finally learn about genes and DNA. Practicals are designed to reinforce the content of the lecture and give you an opportunity to acquire and practise fundamental molecular biology laboratory skills. This includes both wet lab skills and the use of high school homework help landing specialized computer programmes. You will also improve your skills related to the practice of science, including experimental design, generating, documenting and reporting data, working in groups, reading and critically evaluating information, presenting and discussing data and ideas.
Introduction to Biomedical Informatics 1

Introduction to Biomedical Informatics 1 aims to provide students with an overview of the fundamental technological concepts of Biomedical Informatics using real-world applications as examples. The course will lay a strong technical and computational foundation in the areas of operating systems, version control, and programming. Those skills will be taught with a view towards biomedical applications and examples, wherever possible, drawn from the biomedical field. The course will also introduce various technological sub-fields of Biomedical Informatics, including genomics, working with online medical resources, public health informatics, simulation and modelling, and artificial intelligence. This is intended to give students a broad overview of the field and what it entails, with an opportuntity to go into more depth in future years.

Mathematics and Statistics

This module covers the fundamental mathematics and statistics for bioinformatics, including calculus, linear algebra and statistics. The statistics part focuses on descriptive statistics and parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, curve fitting and variance analysis. Examples of real world biomedical data analysis will be used in teaching.

Chemistry Experiment

Chemical experiment is designed to provide students a valuable opportunity and space to practice. The teaching purpose is to enable students to get more chemical knowledge and understand that chemistry has been widely infiltrated into life science, materials science, environmental science, energy science and many other fields. Meanwhile, we focus on training realistic science attitude and innovation ability, so that students can receive comprehensive education of chemistry.

Year two Understanding Biomedical Informatic

Integrated Functions of Body Systems 2

The overarching aim of Integrated Functions of Body Systems 2 (IFBS2) is to provide a sound understanding of physiology using different aspects of homeostasis to demonstrate how more than one body system is responsible for maintaining normal health. Rather than study each of the body systems in isolation, a body system will be introduced in the context of its role in the regulation and maintenance of an aspect of homeostasis. The reasoning for this approach is to demonstrate how the functions of different homework for me body systems are integrated. Some physiological processes will be studied in detail; that is, from the molecular and cellular level through to the whole body. For each body system you will learn both the gross and fine (histology) anatomy. As a tool to understanding the physiology in a healthy individual, some examples of pathology and pharmacology will be used. The general principles of both pathology and pharmacology will be covered in Applied Biomedical Sciences 2 (ABMS2).

Biomedical Genetics 2

Biomedical Genetics II aims to investigate the basis of modern human molecular genetics. The course focuses on the development of knowledge and understanding of the organisation of the human genome, and the regulation and function of gene expression. Concepts will be introduced in lectures through evaluation of experimental approaches and genomic technologies used in the analysis of the structure and expression of genes, including in model organisms. Approaches for identifying causative genes underlying human disease and characterisation of their functions, and the potential for genetic treatment of disease will be addressed.

Database and Software Technology

This module teaches students well-established database and software technologies that are widely-used in biomedical informatics. Students will learn Java programming with an emphasis on the wisdom of object-oriented programming and advanced data structure, based on which students will learn requirement analysis, acquire the knowledge about software engineering, and grasp the coding of complex analysis tool. Besides, students will also study the technologies for construction, management and maintenance of a biological database, including the theories on relational database model, SQL language and transaction management.

Genomics and Proteomics

Genomics and proteomics data are accumlating at an exponential rate, significantly accelerating biomedical research and playing a key role in elucidating the mechanisms of life, and diagosing and treating complex and refractory diseases. This course will cover the theories and applications of genomics and proteomics, including its experimental technologies, data formats and standards, procedures for collecting, cleaning and managing data, verification strategies, quantification approaches and functional analysis tools. It builds on students' technological foundations gained in Introduction to Biomedical Informatics 1 and Database and Software Technology 2, as well as biomedical core knowledge from Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology 1 and Biomedical Genetics 2. Students will have hands-on experience in analyses of real genomics and proteomics data originating from scientific research.

Applied Data Science 2

This course runs alongside and compliments the other 2 courses and introduces students to data science and statistics in a biological context. By taking data sets generated in other courses or otherwise related to their content, students will develop a sense of the challenges and opportunities of working with biological data. They will learn skills related to data processing, cleaning and documentation, as well as a variety of statistical analysis methods. The main focus will be on classical statistics, but students will also get a flavour of Bayesian statistics and machine learning. At the end of this course, we want students to be able to choose an appropriate method of analysis when faced with an unfamiliar dataset.

Year three 

Integrative Biomedical Sciences 3

The course will attempt to develop student’s understanding of how current biomedical knowledge is generated from experiment and disseminated through the research literature, to prepare students for the transition to senior Honours. It aims to provide students with a secure grounding in the core skills of designing scientifically valid experiments, collecting, analysing and interpreting data, communicating scientific ideas and results, and in being able to critically evaluate primary research papers. It will cover a variety of experimental techniques commonly used in the biomedical sciences, so that students have an appreciation of when such techniques can be used, their strengths and weaknesses, and the type of data they produce. To illustrate some broad themes within contemporary biomedical sciences and the power of interdisciplinary approaches, the course will also cover the drug discovery and development process, the use of computational modelling approaches, the growing importance of large datasets (eg from next-generation sequencing and microarrays), and ethical issues in biomedical research.

Biomedical Informatics 3

This course will aid students understanding of how biomedical informatics informs the understanding of biomedical systems, both normal and diseased, at multiple scales - from gene to population. It will address how biomedical informatics can be used to generate predictions and drive development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools to tackle diseases for which there are no successful treatments at present.

Computational Biology and System Biology

Computational biology and systems biology are important areas of bioinformatics, which studies biological systems with a focus on their mechanisms and phenomena. This module introduces the widely-used computational models, such as the network models, deterministic models (ODE, PDE) and cellular automata models (petri net), and how these models can be applied in computing various biological systems. The practical part of this module utilizes the MATLAB and R language. Basic programing in these two languages will be covered.

Two Elective Courses

Year 3 aims to be an exciting exploration of the application of biomedical informatics to biomedical sciences, facilitating student development by learning from experiment in key areas for application. Students will select two elective courses of their choice.

Year four Research in Practice

Biomedical Informatics 4

This module has both lectures and practicals that enable the students to touch homework for me and feel real biomedical informatics research. Its contents cover data acquisition, data formatting, descriptive statistics, data mining, association rule mining and data visualisation. It will also cover advanced topic in data science, including big data and machine learning. The lecures will be taught using Python. Students taking this course will learn the hypothesis-driven and data-drive paradigms of biomedical research, and acquire the capability to develop scientifically sound research plans in biomedical informatics.

Practical Bioinformatics in Biological/Medical Research

Students will complete this module by carrying out scientific research in a self-chosen research laboratory. Students will improve their biomedical informatics knowledge and skills through practice, and develop a first-hand impression and understanding of important biomedical problems.

Biomedical Informatics Project

Student will complete this module by carrying out scientific research in a self-chosen research laboratory and summit a dissertation and present work in oral form.

Biomedical Informatics Project Preview Dissertation

This course will develop the core background in preparation for the project and develop skills in written presentation for disseration.

Biomedical Informatics Portfolio

Students will prepare a portfolio of BMI work based on a interest from preceding years.

Biomedical Informatics Elective

Students will choose an optional elective from a range of Honours electives. The focus and context of the electives will be developed from the specific research interests of leading Biomedical Informatics researchers from ZJU, ZJE and UoE contributing to the programme. The exact focus, content and format of each elective will be developed as appropriate but will follow the overall design of Senior Honours electives within the BMTO portfolio at UoE.

Careers

Graduates enter employment that requires an understanding of biomedical processes and the ability to research using scientific literature and other data sources. These careers include laboratory research, disease diagnosis, and scientific publishing.

1.Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens with proper moral conduct, in good health with no infectious disease or any physical or mental diseases that may affect the normal study, have graduated from high school (Graduating high school students can provide pre-graduation certificates first, then provide the graduation certificates no later than registration) and be under the age of 25 .

2.Requirements of the regulations set in the Document No. 12 (2020) of Ministry of Education of the PRC should be met.

2.1 Applicants who have given up their original Chinese citizenship and become foreign citizens, must become foreign citizens before April 30,2018, and must have lived abroad more than 2 years from April 30,2018 to April 30,2022 (more than 9 months of residence abroad per year can be considered as one year).

2.2 If the applicant has acquired foreign citizenship automatically at the time of birth in a foreign country, whose parents are both Chinese citizens, or one of the parents is a Chinese citizen, parent's (with Chinese citizenship) permanent resident in foreign country should be obtained prior to the birth of the applicant.Applicants must have lived abroad more than 2 years from April 30,2018 to April 30,2022 (more than 9 months of residence abroad per year can be considered as one year).

3.Language proficiency requirements: There are no Chinese language proficiency requirements for the applicants of English-taught programs. If applicants' native language is not English, they should provide score report of English language test (e.g. TOEFL/IELTS/OTHER). TOEFL DI Code of Zhejiang University is C340. TOEFL MyBest score is accepted.

4.Biology and chemistry must have been taken as compulsory subjects in high school.

"*" means necessary documents that you must provide in your application.

*1. Application Form

Please upload your finished application form here.

*2. Personal statement

Should include study experience, reasons for application, personal strengths. Less than 800 words.

3. Applicant who has acquired foreign citizenship automatically at the time of birth in a foreign country, whose parents are both Chinese citizens, or one of the parents is a Chinese citizen submit

(1) birth certificate of foreign country
(2) Chinese parents’ permanent resident certificate of foreign country.
(3) Exit and Entry Record on passport, from April 30th,2018 to April 30th, 2023.

*4. Two recommendation letters from high school teachers

Teachers’ signature, contact phone number and email address must put on the letter.

*5. A photocopy of the passport

With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included

*6. Passport photo

White background, 35mm×45mm in size.

*7. Photocopies of language proficiency certificates.

Applicants for English-instructed programs must provide the certificate of TOEFL or IELTS test score. (Not required for English native speakers)

*8. Transcript for all the courses in senior high school (original copy or notarized copy)

Transcript for all the courses in senior high school (original copy or notarized copy in Chinese/English);

*9. Senior high school diploma (original copy or notarized copy)

Senior high school diploma (original copy or notarized copy in Chinese/English); Graduating high school students can provide pre-graduation Certificate instead (in Chinese/English).

10. Supporting Documents: Certificate of Good Conduct

Provided by your current/previous school/company in Chinese/English to improve your success rate.

11. Applicants who have given up their original Chinese citizenship and become foreign citizens should submit

(1) cancellation certificate of Chinese citizenship
(2) current citizenship certificate
(3) Exit and Entry Record on passport, from April 30th,2018 to April 30th, 2023.

12. Applicants under the age of 18 (by September 1st,2023) should submit

(1) Letter of Guardian Guarantee and the guardian must be an adult living in Hangzhou
(2) A notarized copy of the Guardianship Authorization from the applicant’s parents.

13. Award-winning Certificates related to academic courses during your senior high school period. (If any)

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