The Chemistry Department at Nanjing Agricultural University belongs to College of Sciences and was found in 1999 (named as Applied Chemistry Department previously). Teachers divide into basic courses teaching group and professional courses teaching group. There are totally 40 full-time teachers here, including 9 professors, 20 associate professors, 7 doctoral supervisors, and 17 master’s supervisors. Chemistry Department owns a high-quality teaching team. In detail, 32 teachers have their doctoral degree which accounts for 80 percent of all teachers; 7 teachers are in listed and cultured as “Scientific leaders or backbones of young and middle ages” of Jiangsu province; 1 teacher was awarded as “Zhongshan academic young researcher”; and altogether 4 times for teachers of Chemistry Dept. won the award of “NJAU’s high quality teaching model”.

 

The Chemistry Department now has 1 undergraduate major (Applied Chemistry) which started to enroll students since 2003, from 30 students of first year and 60 students of second year to around 240 students till now. The Chemistry Department also has a two-grade doctor section (Natural Product Chemistry), a one-grade master section (Chemistry) and master section of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The main research areas include: drug molecular design and synthesis, synthetic methodologies, natural product chemistry, pollution control chemistry, and pharmaceutical & environmental analytical chemistry.

 

Chemistry Department is financially supported by Jiangsu Green Pesticide Development and Application National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center, Jiangsu Pesticide Science Key Laboratory, Nanjing Agricultural University’s Key Discipline Construction Platform, and other levels of platforms. Now the Chemistry Department has set up natural product develop platform, organic synthesis platform, chemical analysis & detection platform, and bioactivity detection platform. Buildings for scientific research cover an area of more than 3000 square meters. Equipments and devices for relevant research now value a total of more than RMB 20 million. These all give powerful guarantee for Chemistry Dept. to efficiently cultivate high-quality applied chemistry talents and carry out academic research.

 

Six planed textbooks have been published during “twelfth five year plan”. Several National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects have been finished or undertook, such as, “twelfth five year plan” National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program), “twelfth five year plan” National Science-technology Support Project, Public Welfare Industry (Agriculture) Special Research Project, Jiangsu Science-technology Support Project, Jiangsu Science-technology Plan Project, Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, etc. In recent years, more than 30 research projects have been granted from provincial or national scientific research foundations and totally RMB 20 million have been allotted. Teachers of Chemistry Dept. have published more than 110 scientific papers during 2011-2015, and 6 Nation Invention Patents have been granted.