Life and Health Intelligent Research Institute was established in 2020 and pioneered the experimental field of interdisciplinary research in Tianjin University of Technology. "For people's life and health" is a new policy to guide the development of science and technology in our country. Aiming at major needs of national strategic emerging industries and health security, the research institute focuses on major scientific issues in the field of life and health. It also focuses on the development and applications of interdisciplinary frontiers to promote the deep cross-integration of multiple disciplines and give full play to the advantages of talent gathering. The research institute was founded as an interdisciplinary research platform from foundation to application and talent training highland, contributing to life, health and safety.

At present, with the acceleration of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution in China, new subdisciplines and growth areas are constantly emerging. Facing the new challenges of knowledge innovation and economic and social development, the in-depth interdisciplinary integration is overwhelming. Tianjin University of Technology has broken the closed consciousness of disciplines, overcome the barriers of communication between disciplines, integrated quality resources, opened and cooperated to create interdisciplinary scientific research culture, and established the Life and Health Intelligent Research Institute. The Institute focuses on strengthening the foundation of interdisciplinary, promoting interdisciplinary integration and steadily developing interdisciplinary research. We form an interdisciplinary research platform based on chemistry and materials, involving chemical engineering, biology, medicine, mechanics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence and other disciplines, and realizing major breakthroughs in basic research. At the same time, the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements will be promoted by combining engineering technologies such as scientific instrument development, chip design and manufacturing, and so on.

Prof. Tie Wang, Dean of Life and Health Intelligent Research Institute, Vice-President of Tianjin University of Technology, National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, National Leading Talents of Science and Technology Innovation in the “Ten Thousand Talents Program”, National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Candidate of Youth Project of National Overseas High Level Talents Introduction Plan, Leader of Innovation Cross Team, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Tie Wang, has long been committed to the research of new methods and new technologies for the analysis of molecular mechanisms of major diseases, and has solved the key scientific problems of marker detection in complex living systems. Professor Wang proposed a new method forin vitro disease detection to realize the whole chain research from basic research, instrument development to clinical detection. The Institute invited Academician Jinghong Li as the Chairman of Scientific Committee to provide guidance and support in terms of strategic development and discipline construction.

Qualified persons were introduced into institution to construct a science and research team constituted by a national talent as a core and characterized by an interdisciplinary and reasonable age structure, including the excellent graduates from either domestic or foreign universities, clinicians from third-level grade-A hospitals, experienced engineers from enterprises and etc., among which 6 members take vice-senior titles. In the recent years, a number of projects containing the national key research and development (R&D) of technology department, the key project of National Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences research and development of instrument, Chinese Academy of Sciences-guided project of A Type, the project of Chinese Academy of Sciences Interdisciplinary Team and etc. were taken over by the team. More than 200 literatures were published in the international adamic journals containing Science, Nat. Commun., J.AM.Chem.Soc., Chem. Soc.Rev., Adv.Mater. and etc. The first prize of Science and Technology Award of China Analysis and Testing Association, the IAAM Medal Award as well as other awards were successively won.

In recent years, the hardware and software facilities of Life and Health Intelligent Research Institute have been continuously improved, and we built up Tianjin Key Laboratory of Life and Health Detection, multiple school-enterprise cooperation laboratories and other scientific research bases, as well as the independent instrument sharing platforms in large-scale, including material characterization and simulation platform, scientific instrument development platform and biomedical platform, etc. We have confocal micro-laminate spectrometer, atomic force microscope, transmission electron microscope, gold phase microscope, liquid mass spectrometer, gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, infrared microscope, flow cytometry, fluorescence quantitative PCR instrument, confocal microscopy, lithography machine, dispensing machine, 3D printer, atomic layer deposition system, nanomaterial deposition system, semiconductor test system, etc. Our institute have chemical laboratory, biological laboratory, instrument test laboratory, micro-processing ultra-paste and instrument processing room, which provides superior experimental conditions and technical support for scientific research.

Our Institute will adhere to the core concept of the national "14th Five-Year", and to further improve and innovate disciplines, teams and talent system mechanisms. We will clarify ideas, deepen reforms, accelerate exploration, seek implementation and gradually improve the interdisciplinary innovation system whose main body, characteristic and guideline depend on research, intersection and demand, respectively. We strive to build a high-level research team which is domestic leading and international well-known, and provide the powerful support and guarantee for the rapid development of Tianjin University of Technology.