The school prioritizes the development of a conducive,fair and supportive environment to attract and retain the best teachers,scholars and scientists.There are currently more than 210 full-time faculty members,of which 43 are professors,76 associate professors,and 55 lecturers. We are proud to have one Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor, two recipients of National Outstanding Youth Fund, two awardees of New Century Talents honored by the Ministry of Education, three Chief Scientists sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, and 24 other provincial talent program awardees.

At the end of 2013, Dr. Eddy F. Y. Liew, Fellow of Royal Society (FRS) and Professor of University of Glasgow, UK joined our school as an Honorary Chair Professor of Soochow University, reflecting active ongoing academic collaboration in our School. At present, there are many prominent Chair & Guest Professors actively involving in research collaboration and teaching. Among those internationally renowned scholars are Eddy Liew, Guoping Zhao (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences),  Peter Delves (Vice Provost and Professor of Immunology, University College of London, UK) and Bin-Feng LU ( Associate Professor , tenure of University of Pittsburgh ) ,et al. 15 investigators from other research institutes of the university have been appointed as guest (part-time) professors in our school and are actively involved in teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.

From 2013, 33 new faculty and staff members joined our school and 8 full professors and 19 associate professors received promotion. Professor Xiong Su received supports from ‘High Level Creative Talent Program” of Jiangsu Province,Professor Jian-Ming Li received National Outstanding Youth Fund awarded by National Science Foundation of China in 2015 .