The Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Jilin University was founded in 1950. In 1981, the Department was accredited as a Master’s degree-granting point. In 1986, it became a Doctoral degree-granting point and a Post doctoral mobile station. The Department is now the key discipline of Jilin Province, the Grade 2 Physiology Laboratory of Jilin Provincial Bureau of traditional Chinese medicine, the national continuing education course training unit of neurobiology, the Key Laboratory of neurobiology and the excellent course of physiology in Jilin Province.

There are 11 teaching staff in the Department, including 3 professors, 3 associate professors and 5 lecturers, among them 1 doctoral supervisor and 5 master degree supervisors. The departmental teaching covers a variety of courses which include the "5 + 3" integration of medical course, five-year medicine, pharmacy, nursing, international students and others. The department has conducted more than 10 educational research projects and published more than 20 educational research papers. The Department also participated in the compilation of more than ten national textbooks both in Chinese and English, and was the editor-in chief for two experimental textbooks. As for scientific research, the Department has undertaken more than 10 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 3 French international collaboration projects (funded by France), several provincial and ministerial key and general projects, 5 awards (second and third prizes) of provincial scientific and technological achievements, and dozens of research papers were published in SCI-listed journals. In terms of postgraduate training, nearly 200 masters, doctors and postdoctoral students have been trained by the Department.

At present, the Department has neuroelectrophysiological laboratories (optogenetics combined with multichannel extracellular recording, patch clamp recording in vitro brain slices and single cell recording system), circulation physiology laboratory, cell culture room, behavior laboratory, sleep and biological rhythm laboratory. We have established the research methods and experimental platforms advancing from organism as a whole to cellular and even molecular levels, and carried out research work at different levels.