Established in 1958, Guangzhou Medical University is a high-level university in Guangdong Province that specializes in all the fields in clinical medicine along with advanced medical research, and develops doctoral, master and undergraduate multi-level talent training.The school has two campuses, Panyu and Yuexiu, covering an area of 372,300 square meters and a building area of 481,900 square meters. There are 22 colleges, 7 directly affiliated hospitals, 11 non-directly affiliated hospitals, and 28 research institutions. It has 1 national medical center, 1 national clinical medicine research center, 1 national key laboratory, 11 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 3 provincial and ministerial engineering technology research centers/engineering laboratories, and 2 provincial collaborations Innovation center, 1 national university science park cultivation base, 24 city level key laboratories. It has 1 national key discipline, 7 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 21 city level key disciplines; clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, molecular biology and genetics, biology and biochemistry, immunology. ESI ranks it among the top 1% in the world, and the comprehensive ESI ranking of all subjects ranks among the top 1000 universities in the world. The school has 9 national clinical key specialties and 43 provincial key specialties. Among them, respiratory medicine ranks first in the country, allergies ranks third in the country, thoracic surgery ranks sixth in the country, and psychiatric specialty ranks seventh in the country.The school adheres to the strategy of "establishing a school with talents". There are 7508 faculty members including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Changjiang Scholars, winners of the National Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund, and national candidates for the New Century Talent Project.GMU labs developed the cure against SARS, and also the Ebola and Coronavirus epidemic prevention & control