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Food Fermentation and Bioengineering
The Department of Bioengineering at Nanchang University originated from the Grain Engineering (Fermentation Engineering) program established by the College of Food Industry, Jiangxi University of Technology in 1988. It was officially launched as a undergraduate program in Bioengineering in 2001. In 2005, it was approved for a master’s degree program in Bioengineering; in 2006, it gained authorization for an academic master’s degree program in Fermentation Engineering; in 2020, it was selected as the first-class undergraduate major of Jiangxi Province; in 2021, it was approved to set up doctoral programs in Biology and Medicine, and academic master’s programs in Bioengineering.
Currently, the department comprises 38 full-time faculty members, including 17 professors (researchers) and 15 associate professors (including associate researchers and senior laboratory technicians), and 92% of the faculty hold doctoral degrees. Its research focuses on three core areas: Microbial Fermentation Engineering, Synthetic Biotechnology Engineering, and Environmental Bioengineering. The Bioengineering major has passed the China Engineering Education Accreditation, been approved as a national first-class undergraduate major construction site, and obtained five-star accreditation as the only major in the second round of provincial undergraduate major evaluations in Jiangxi Province.