Ningbo University

The Doctoral program of Bioprospecting of Aquatic Resources is a branch of "Aquaculture", which was approved by the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council in 2010. For this doctoral program, the Key Laboratory of Animal Protein Food Deep Processing Technology of Zhejiang province and Key Laboratory of Health Food and Marine Drugs of Ningbo City have been established, and 8 doctoral supervisors are working for this program. The main research field of this program includes the aquaculture safety and quality, aquaculture biotechnology, and high-value utilization of aquatic resources. Over the past five years, more than 120 scientific research projects and 28 million yuan research funding were supported from the government, including more than 30 projects from the nation and more than 50 projects from the province and ministries. More than 400 papers have been published and 50 patents for inventions have been approved, which includes more than 100 papers in SCI journals. Now, 12 achievements in food science and technology have been awarded by government.