To forge ahead in biological and biomedical science at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in 2017, a brand new Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine was established. It includes the School of Life Sciences and the newly merged USTC’s first affiliated hospital, the former Anhui Provincial Hospital, which is an impressive 5,000-plus bed facility treating 3.7 million outpatients every year. Tackling a wave of ‘New Medicine’ is the focus of this fresh interdisciplinary initiative at USTC.