Key Laboratory of Comparative Medicine for Human Diseases, National Health Commission

The overall positioning of the Key Laboratory of Comparative Medicine for Human Diseases of the National Health Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Key Laboratory) is to establish the most comprehensive animal disease model base and resource sharing base for major infectious diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, tumors, metabolic diseases and senile diseases in China. Comparative medical research was conducted based on animal models of human diseases. The main research directions of the key laboratory include: 1) Study on animal models susceptible to infectious diseases and the interaction between pathogens and hosts; 2) Gene function description, the relationship between gene coding and development and aging; 3) Creation and research of animal models of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; 4) Model creation and comparative medical research on degenerative diseases; 5) Research on genome modification technology system and animal model resources of genetic engineering; 6) Resource maintenance and sharing and quality assurance system.

The laboratory is at the leading level among laboratories in the same discipline in China. It is at the same level in the same field of international laboratory, and some of research directions is a leading level in the world. The laboratory this year established friendly and cooperative relations with the United States, France, Japan, Britain, Germany, Korea, South Korea, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Bangladesh and China Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao SAR, etc. On the one hand, this promoted the unceasing enhancement on laboratory research level, on the other hand, it can expand the international influence of the laboratory.