Source: SYSU-JHU Collaboration Program
Written by: Chen Jingxue
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

On April 18th, 2016, Dr. Adrian Dobs, director of Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network, led the delegation from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to visit Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) for the discussion on the two universities’ collaboration in Phase II. Prof. Li Mengfeng, vice president of Sun Yat-sen University, met with the delegation and had a close discussion with them on collaboration issues. Prof. Ling Wenhua, director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, Dr. Liang Dan, vice president of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Dr. Zhang Qi, vice president of the Third Affiliated Hospital of SYSU also attended the meeting.
In 2013, Sun Yat-sen University and Johns Hopkins University initiated the collaboration program in the field of clinical research, mainly focusing on educational training, research collaboration and infrastructural evaluation of clinical research throughout SYSU and its eight affiliated hospitals. The Phase I collaboration accomplished its mission on September 2015, trained a group of clinical research experts, initiated ten research collaboration projects and assessed the clinical research infrastructure throughout SYSU and its eight affiliated hospitals.

In order to further improve the overall clinical research quality, the two universities have been exchanging ideas and opinions since last year, laying a good foundation for the discussion on Phase II. Through the meeting this time, the two universities successfully reached consensuses on a number of collaboration contents in Phase II and agreed to start the new phase of collaboration recently.