In December 2022, the Ward Caring School for the patients of Pediatric Hematology in Union Hospital has celebrated its 20th anniversary. As China’s first ward caring school, its volunteer team has grown over the past 20 years from only a few medical staff to more than 18,000 volunteers, bringing knowledge and happiness to over 40,000 children patients. 01 First in China to open a ward caring s...

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...