On August 23, 2024, the evaluation results of the centralized acceptance for projects of applications for National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) were announced. Anhui Medical University was approved 141 NSFC funded projects, including 2 major projects. The approved direct funding reached 57.21 million yuan, and the number of projects has ranked the first among Anhui provincial universities.
It is reported that in 2024, NSFC received a total of 384,564 project applications, and accepted a total of 383,126 projects after preliminary examination and secondary review, among which the number of applications for general projects increased by nearly 50% compared to last year. And the total number of funded projects was 49,805, which was basically the same as that of 2023.
In recent years, the university has insisted on bearing the responsibility of serving the construction of national strategic scientific and technological power. Oriented by strategic traction and value drive, our university has fully supported the declaration and approval of major scientific and technological projects, strengthened organized scientific research, optimized the allocation of scientific research resources, consolidated the construction of a multi-departmental collaborative scientific research linkage management mechanism, deepened the reform of scientific and technological evaluation and the application of results, and maximized the exploration and mobilization of scientific and technological power of the whole university through the policy lever. At the same time, the construction of strategic scientist team has become the top priority of the talent strategy, focusing on the leading role of “pioneering effect” of the leading talents and the “magnetic effect” of talent teams. The comprehensive effect of talent services in supporting high-quality development has continued to increase.