Rheumatology and Immunology

The Department of Rheumatology and Immunology at Peking University Shenzhen Hospital was established in 2006 and has long been committed to the diagnosis, treatment, and research of rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, inflammatory myopathies, systemic sclerosis, and vasculitis. It closely follows domestic and international diagnosis and treatment guidelines and research hotspots, and has repeatedly been ranked among the top 100 departments in the “China Hospital Science and Technology Value (STEM)—Rheumatology and Autoimmunology” and the “Yixin Tianxia China Hospital Influence Rankings.” The department has a total of 45 medical, nursing, and research staff members, 44 inpatient beds, and 5 outpatient consultation rooms, and sees approximately 50,000 patients annually. It offers disease-specific outpatient clinics for rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, gouty arthritis, and immune-mediated miscarriage. The team relies on the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Inflammatory and Immune Diseases and the Institute of Inflammation and Immunology of the Peking University–Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Medical Center. Focusing primarily on rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and systemic lupus erythematosus, it conducts related clinical and basic research in the following areas: 1. Research on biomarkers of immune and inflammatory diseases and their clinical translational applications; 2. Research on the mechanisms of immune imbalance in immune and inflammatory diseases and their key targets; 3. Applications of natural products and their analogues in immune and inflammatory diseases and their clinical translational applications; 4. Cell therapy for immune and inflammatory diseases; 5. Clinical cohort studies. The department integrates nursing work with intelligent technology, applies new concepts and technologies to provide patients with professional, high-quality nursing care, and moves toward its departmental goals of being “learning-oriented, enterprising, and harmonious”!