College of Veterinary Medicine

　　Educational goals

　　After 80 years’ construction and development, the College of Veterinary Medicine has formed a multi-level teaching system with undergraduate education as the main body and postgraduate education as the direction. After long-term efforts, the college has made an outstanding progress in Animal Medicine and Animal Bio-technology, especially in Animal Embryo Engineering, Animal Cloning and Stem Cell Engineering, Biological Toxins and Toxic Disease, Domestic Animal Reproductive Endocrine, Neurobiology, Livestock Disease Prevention and Control, and some research areas have reached the international and domestic leading levels. Always aiming to the frontier science and technology and sticking to meet the requirements of regional and national important strategies, the college is active in carrying basic and applied research about the practical agricultural production.  With the subject construction as the leading role, implementing talent strategy, optimizing the disciplines structure and outstanding superiority of the subjects, the college has formed its own features of school running. In order to build the veterinary medicine into a state-level leading academic disciplines and to enhance the academic level and the influence of the college nationally and internationally, all the faculty members are working hard with great enthusiasm to embrace the brilliant future of the college!    

　　Basic information

　　The College of Veterinary Medicine is one of the traditional competitive colleges in Northwest A&F University, whose history dates back to one of the Teaching and Research Section of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine in the National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry founded in 1936. Veterinary Medicine is the famous brand specialties in Shaanxi Province. The college possesses a national key discipline (Clinical Veterinary Medicine), a doctoral program and a post-doctoral research station in Veterinary Science. The college is authorized to confer doctoral degree and master degree in 5 disciplines, including the level I discipline, Veterinary Medicine, and 4 level II disciplines--Basic Veterinary Medicine, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Clinical Veterinary Medicine and Animal Biological Technology, It is also authorized to confer doctoral degree and master degree in 5 disciplines which are the level I discipline, Biology , and 4 level II disciplines--Developmental Biology，Neurobiology, Cytobiology and Physiology.

　　Departments of Teaching and Research

　　There are three teaching and research divisions in the College engaging in the following academic fields:

　　Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine

　　Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine

　　Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine

　　Teaching and Research Centers/Laboratories：

　　Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology, Ministry of Agriculture

　　Shaanxi Station of Veterinary Pharmacology and Biotechnology, Ministry of Agriculture

　　The National Stem Cell Engineering Center, Shaanxi Division

　　Shaanxi Provincial Embryo and Stem Cell Research Center

　　Shaanxi Biotechnology Research Center

　　Subsidiary：

　　Laboratory Management Center

　　Veterinary Teaching Hospital

　　Xi’an Veterinary Teaching Hospital

　　Laboratory Animal Facility

　　Disciplinary Construction

　　Major：Veterinary Medicine

　　Minors：

　　Basic Veterinary Medicine

　　Preventive Veterinary Medicine

　　Clinical Veterinary Medicine, National Key Discipline

　　Animal Biotechnology

　　Research Direction   

　　1. Livestock Major Clinical Disease Prevention, Treatment and Bioengineering

　　The research is in the following areas: livestock major disease resistant gene discovery and functional verification; establishment and improvement of the safe and efficient transgenic technology and transgenic organism safety evaluation system; creating transgenic pig, cattle and sheep; production of mammary gland bioreactor of delicate vaccine for cattle and sheep; development and utilization of plant toxins and poisonous plants poisoning disease integrated control technology; mechanism of animal reproductive endocrinology, reproductive immune regulation and reproductive disorders；screening and evaluation of the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, the curative mechanism of acupuncture technology.

　　2. Livestock Major Disease Pathogenesis, Prevention and Control

　　The research is in the following areas: etiology of livestock major infectious diseases; technology of detection, prevention, control of contamination of major food pathogens and heavy metals；development of livestock major diseases genetically engineered vaccine, live vectored vaccines, DNA vaccines and immunotherapeutic agents as well as sensitive and specific diagnostic reagents; epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of wild animal diseases at Qinling area.

　　3. Basic Biology of Veterinary Medicine

　　The research is in the following areas: animal morphological, structural and functional characteristics; animal metabolic characteristics；establishing an efficient and safe embryonic stem cell lines, induced pluripotent stem cells, and the male germ line stem cells of pigs, sheep and cattle; livestock germ plasm conservation and animal disease models；antibody based drugs and medical plant resource pharmacological study in Western China；animal antibodies and diagnostic reagents; new formulation of drugs pharmacokinetics study and nano-drugs.

　　Teaching and Scientific Research

　　Published Papers

　　Since 2015, a total of 494 SCI papers have been published, of which 53 with impact factors above 5.0.

　　Students

　　Faculty & Staff