AI Issue 8 2017

Acquisition International - 2017 Excellence Awards 99 Best Pathogens & Immunology Research Institute - Beijing The Institute also attaches great importance to cooperation with international scientific community and industries. Since 2008, IMCAS implemented 50 international cooperative projects and 40 talent recruitment and international exchange projects. In 2010, IMCAS was elected to be the host institute of the World Data Center for Microorganisms. In 2012, IMCAS cooperated with Royal Holloway,University of London and launched Fungal Names, an international fungal names registration website and a Chinese fungal species database. In March 2013, the CAS-TWAS Biotechnology Center of Excellence was established at IMCAS. Each year it organizes several international meetings in microbiology to further promote communication and exchanges in the international community. IMCAS employs more than 490 staff members, of whom 416 are researchers including six CAS academicians. There are 513 graduate students at IMCAS. Overall, across over five decades of unflagging efforts, IMCAS has developed into a comprehensive microbiological research institution with rich heritage, great strength and international reputation, and moving forward maintaining this and continuing to offer the highest possible standards of research and innovation will remain its ongoing focus.