The Westlake University School of Medicine aims to train top physician-scientists. It is committed to medical innovation and clinical transformation, focusing on microbiology and vaccines, immunology and inflammation, physiology and metabolism, tumor biology and treatment, medical genetics, rare diseases, drug research and development, public health, and other related research fields.

Top-notch physician-scientists are medical talents possessing solid basic medical knowledge and clinical diagnosis skills, who have received systematic training in biomedical research and can simultaneously apply the different methodologies of basic research and clinical treatment, the leading force that drives medical innovation.

Westlake University and the Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission signed the agreement to jointly build the Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Westlake University. 

Establishing a new type of School of Medicine is an essential endeavor of Westlake University in response to the national and people's need for health and healthcare. It is vital to the university's strategy to expand its disciplinary development and talent recruitment. We will strive to build a new system of Westlake medical education and actively explore new ways to construct a research medical school, contributing the strength of Westlake to medical development in China and the world.