Through years of development, the discipline has formed a research direction characterized by interdisciplinarity, and has established a relatively integrated research system and developed the following four major research directions: Direction One: Drug Targeting Strategies and Drug Delivery System; Direction II: New Drug Preparations and New Formulations; Direction III: Pharmaceutical Polymers; Direction IV: Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Preparations in vitro and in vivo.vivo.

Since 2010, the departmental faculty has been awarded two research grants from the "973 Program", one project from the "National Technology Platform for Major Drug Discovery and New Drug Units" and two grants from the "863 Program”. In the related research directions, the faculty has been awarded 39 grants from the "National Natural Science Foundation", 4 international cooperation projects, 40 provincial and ministerial level projects; published more than 500 papers in SCI journals, of which more than 260 papers have the impact factors above 5; been licensed 52 national and international invention patents; accomplished 4 preclinical trials of the investigated new drugs, obtained one approval of new drug candidate for clinical trial, one for clinical trial, one for production; received a totally 18 provincial and ministerial awards including the first prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, the second Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, the second prize of Shanghai Sci-Tech Progress Award, the second prize of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association Science and Technology Award.