School of life science researches started from 1980s in Beijing Institute of Technology, primarily supporting the Master and Doctor Program in applied chemistry. In 1995, department of Biology Engineering was authorized began to recruit master and doctor programs in this major, respectively in 2000 and 2005. For the disciplinary progress of fundamental biology, school of life science was authorized to award degree in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2003, microbiology and neurology in 2005. Furthermore, biochemistry and biology are approved as key discipline of national defense in 2007. And in 2010, biology was conferred as a first class discipline, underlying a promising development of engineering disciplines

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