Institute of Dermatology and Hospital of Skin Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Institute of Dermatology and Hospital of Skin Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) (hereafter referred to as“the Institute”) was established in Beijing in 1954 and under the direct leadership of Ministry of Health (renamed as Health and Family Planning Commission, HFPC), the People’s Republic of China.

The Institute is the first national professional institution engaged combinedly in clinical services, scientific research, disease control and professional education on skin diseases, venereal diseases and leprosy. Based on its professional superiority, the Institute covers the most comprehensive sub-disciplines on dermato-venereology in China and has one in- patient department designed to have 480 beds and 28 clinical and research departments including Dermatology, Dermatopathology, Mycology, Surgery, Physicotherapeutics, with an average of about 3,000 daily out-patient clinic visits. Nearly 100 topical dermatological drug products developed and produced by the Institute are of high quality, and affordable and acclaimed by their clients.

Dermato-venereology at the Institute has been designated as the key discipline by Ministry of Education and also of the Jiangsu“135”Project. Dermatology at the Institute has been included in the national key clinical subject construction projects. The Institute has one Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory and one clinical research center designated by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology. The Institute has been appointed to the site to offer doctorate and master’s degree programs on dermato-venereology of Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), the base to provide the national continuing medical education; one of the Drug Clinical Trial Sites of the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA); the China Medical Fungi Culture Collection Center; the WHO Collaborating Center for Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections; the editorial organization of the two national Chinese journals - the Chinese Journal of Dermatology and the International Journal of Dermatology and Venereology, and the first English journal in Dermatology in Mainland China.

The Institute has been acting as technical centers to coordinate and support national programs for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and leprosy prevention and control, including the establishment of the national surveillance system, participation in developing national programs, strategies, guidelines and implementation protocols, and provision of technical supports to and personnel training for implementing the national STD and leprosy prevention and control programs.

Over the past 64 years since its foundation, the Institute has received 7 national science and technology achievement awards including the First State Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, and more than 90 ministerial or provincial awards. More than 4000 scientific articles and 150 academic books have been published.

The Institute has been granted with more than 20 certificates of new drugs, domestic or foreign patents. The Institute has secured research funding for more than 150 projects in contracts and grants awarded by the National Mega Science and Technology Projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the provincial or ministerial scientific research funds. A total of more than 210 students have graduated from the doctorate or master’s degree programs and over 10,000 trainees from home or abroad have been trained through the tailored training programs provided by the Institute. In recent years, more than 30 papers written by the Institute staff are published every year in the peer- reviewed journals covered by Scientific Citation Index. For promoting international exchanges, the Institute has created academic cooperation and partnership with its counterparts in over 30 countries or regions.