On September 7, the School of Bioengineering held the 2026 Working Conference on Research Team Building in Meeting Room 208, Building 2, Binhai Central Campus. Members of the school’s leading group, heads of all research teams, and staff from the Party‑Committee & Administration Office attended the meeting, which was presided over by Jiang Huifeng, Dean of the School of Bioengineering.

Dean Jiang Huifeng delivered a work summary for 2026 at the outset. He comprehensively reviewed major progress achieved over the past six months under ten action plans, including Party‑building leadership, ideological and moral education, undergraduate education enhancement, postgraduate education excellence, innovation‑entrepreneurship quality improvement, scientific‑technology advancement, discipline elevation, faculty development, international communication and university governance improvement. He summarized the completion status of key performance indicators for 2026 and analyzed opportunities and challenges facing the school’s development. He stressed the need to accelerate strategic layout in cutting‑edge fields such as synthetic biology and biomedicine to continuously boost the school’s core competitiveness.

Zhang Cuiying, Vice Dean of the School of Bioengineering, reported on the completion of research funding targets for each team in 2026.

Subsequently, nineteen team leaders elaborated on the optimization, integration and priority layout of research directions following team restructuring. They clarified progress in implementing tasks for talent cultivation and curriculum system development, systematically reviewed major advances and phased outcomes of ongoing scientific research projects. Aligned with major national strategic needs and disciplinary frontiers, they also put forward landmark achievement goals and implementation pathways for the next 3‑5 years.

Du Yangang, Party Secretary of the School of Bioengineering, conveyed the spirits of the 17th Plenary (Expanded) Session of the 3rd Committee of the CPC Tianjin University of Science and Technology, as well as the deployment meeting for key new‑semester work. He emphasized that all teams should go all‑out to meet the school’s key objectives and jointly plan the school’s development blueprint for the 15th Five‑Year Plan period.

The meeting further aligned thinking and built consensus, laying solid groundwork for the school to strengthen its distinctive strengths and advance all‑round development of various undertakings in the new development stage.