From July 4 to 8, 2016, the graduates recruitment summer camp sponsored by Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was held successfully.

Since 2014, the Shanghai Institute of Immunology began actively carrying out the propaganda work of postgraduate recruitmentto widely attract excellent undergraduates from famous universities nationwide to engage in the annual summer camp. This year, in order to step up the publicity efforts and to improve student quality, the recruitment propaganda work has started with various methods such as making new posters, brochure, ppt and WeChat dynamic scene since March. These methods fully displayed the whole developing panorama of SII. This year’s propaganda work covered ten provinces and cities and 13 985/211 universities including China Agricultural University, Xiamen University, Shandong University, Zhejiang University and so on. In particular, in order to realize the docking with online registration system of summer camp organized by School of Medicine, the dynamic WeChat publicity platform was launched for the first time to provide the students with a more convenient channel.Up to 88 students applied for the camp via WeChat . After rounds of screening, 29 excellent undergraduates from 13 universities were selected and participatedthe summer camp.

During the summer camps, students listened carefully to the subject groups’ introduction and academic reports, communicated with the teachers, and they also visited the school campus, school history museum and Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. On July 6-7, all the 29 students participated in a series of activities organized by SII and Department of Immunology and Microbiology. On the subject groups’ welcome ceremony, Director Su Bing, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, first warmly welcomed the participants, interactedwith them and answered different questions. Subsequently, the participants freely communicated  with the instructors that they were interestedand discussed with some postgraduate representatives about SII. In addition, participants also took part in the written and interview process organized by the committee of experts.

Through the summer camp, the participants had a deeper understanding about the research  groups, the faculty and research strength of SII. As the first institute specialized in clinical immunology and basic immunology, Shanghai Institute of Immunology considers his responsibility to cultivate excellent talents in the field of immunology and to promote the development of immunology. In recent years, our institute continues to strengthen colaboationand exchange with home and abroad high-profileuniversities and research institutions and actively organize interdisciplinary, inter-regional and international interactions to promote the institute to become a research institution with international standard and an important base training immunological innovative talents.