On 16th March, 2016, Annie Young, Professor of Nursing from the University of Warwick (UoW), UK visited Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC), exchanging ideas with experts from SYSUCC regarding collaboration opportunities in nurse training and exchange between the two institutions. Prof. Chao-Nan Qian, Vice-president of SYSUCC, Ms. Huiying Qin, Director of the Nursing Department, Prof. Li Zhang, Deputy Director of Medical Oncology, Ms. Benyan Zou, Ms. Zhihuan Zhou, Ms.Yalan Wang, Ms. Simei Shi, Ms. Yushan Liu, Ms. Wei Huang, Ms. Yu Liu and Ms.Shuang Liao from SYSUCC also attended the collaboration meeting. 

On behalf of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Prof. Qian expressed a warm welcome to Prof. Young, as well as a s incerely hope for SYSUCC and UoW to initiate the nurse training and exchange program, further consolidating collaboration relationship between the two institutions which will in turn, benefit both China and UK in the fight against cancer.

“Since the MoU signing between SYSUCC and UoW, the two institutions have kept a close relationship in communication and exchange inorder to push the collaboration projects forward, including the nurse trainingprogram. After long term effort of UoW experts, a training program is finally available now for the nurses from SYSUCC and waiting to be confirmed by both sides concerning the details. “, said Prof. Annie Young.

As planned by SYSUCC, 2-3 nurses will be sent to the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire this year for training up to 6 months. During the meeting, experts from SYSUCC also expressed to Prof. Young many suggestions, including further collaborations in nurse training concerning phase I clinical trial, PICC and psychological care for cancer patients, all of which were fully supported by Prof. Young.

A hospital tour was arranged for Prof.Young after the collaboration meeting, visiting the Medical Oncology Department, Phase I Unit, etc.

During the state visit to the UK of Mr Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK’s University of Warwick on 21 Oct, 2015, creating a partnership in cancerdiagnosis, care and research. In 2015, Dr. Jin Jietian, a young digital pathologist from the Department of Pathology at SYSUCC, spent two months at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire as part of a training program organized by Warwick. Besides, in the same year, a collaborating research project in anti-cancer drugs development for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma wascarried out, between Prof. Zeng Musheng’s group in SYSUCC and Prof. Peter J.Sadler’s group in Warwick. Dr. Isolda Romero Canelon and Mr. George Hughes,both from Prof. Sadler’s group in Warwick, came to SYSUCC to work together onthis project with their partners.

Group photo of the experts from SunYat-sen University Cancer Center and the University of Warwick

Written by: Office of International Collaboration and Public Relations, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center