Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) issued “the Notice on the review results of projects applied for centralized reception of NSFC in 2021”. Tongji medicine received 217 project grants, with a direct fund of 101.578 million yuan. Among them, there were 91 general projects, 118 youth science fund projects, 2 key projects, 1 outstanding youth science fund project and 5 outstanding youth science fund projects.

Tongji medicine always adheres to starting from needs and problems, facing the national vital problem, the world's scientific and technological frontier and the urgent needs of people's health, and strives to cultivate a large number of strategic scientific and technological talents, medical leaders, young outstanding talents and high-level innovation teams with international level during the 14th Five Year Plan Period and even in the next few decades, also strives to achieve major breakthroughs in forward-looking basic research and leading original achievements.

Teachers and students of TUSM will always cherish the beautiful vision of "dreams start from medicine", adhere to the concept of "sincere service to the world and bright path to the future", continue to forge ahead, promote the revival of Tongji medicine, and make new contributions to HEALTHY SHANGHAI Program and HEALTHY CHINA Program. The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago, followed by now. Tongji medicine has a glorious history of more than 100 years, and the best time to revive Tongji medicine is now.