Recently, a young village doctor from Lincang, Yunnan Province, who suffered from congenital severe spinal deformity of nearly 150 degrees, finally got her spine straight under the joint treatment by the MDT team from Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (“Union Hospital”). Luo Nawa, born in 1995, has twice been awarded the title of “Most Beau...

On November 20, 2022, the Fudan Version of 2021 China Hospital Ranking and 2021 China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking were released, among which Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology took the 7th place. The hospital has been ranked among the top ten for three consecutive years, standing firmly at the top level nationwide. In the China Hospit...

On October 27, 2022, the 2nd Wuhan Forum of Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer hosted by the Pancreatic Surgery Department of Union Hospital was successfully held online. The Forum invited a number of well-known experts and scholars in the field of immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer at home and abroad, and had indepth academic discussions on the characteristics of immune microenvironment for ...

In October 2022,Cell Reports Medicine (IF:16.988) published the research results of Professor ZHENG Chuansheng’s team of the Radiology Department of Union Hospital, titled “Self-supervised learning enables 3D digital subtraction angiography reconstruction from ultra-sparse 2D projection views: A multicenter study”. The research proposed a self-supervised 3D-DSA Reconstruction (SSDR) method t...

On September 22, 2022, the research work entitled “METTL16 antagonizes MRE11-mediated DNA end resection and confers synthetic lethality to PARP inhibition in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma” was published in Nature Cancer, and posted on journal cover. This work was conducted by Professor TAO Kaixiong’s team together with Mayo Clinic. The Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospita...

At 9:30 am on September 8, in the Jinyinhu Campus of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, a crane 10-storey high slowly lifted the 45-ton 360° rotating gantry from the ground and lower it into the treatment room. Since then, Asia & Pacific Region’s first ProBeam360° multi-room system for proton therapy was installed in the Proton Medical Center...

    Byles House is the oldest building existing in Union Hospital. In August 2022, after almost one year of renovation, this time-honored building had been reborn as the new Union Hospital History Museum, exhibiting the 156-year development history of the hospital with photos and materials.Byles House Hilda Magerat Byles    In 1931, Hilda Byles, doctor of Union Hospital and one of the earliest ...

The Head and Neck Cancer MDT (multidisciplinary team) of Union Hospital has made new progress in the clinical research of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with PD-1 inhibitor in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus camrelizumab showed higher objective response rate (ORR) of tumor, reduced damage of important organs in p...