SUSTech’s first Basic Science Center, also the first of its kind in Shenzhen, for mechanism and intervention of human neurological disorders program was officially approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

The Party Committee of School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, CPC was officially established.

Undergraduates organized the first "Undergraduate Conference on Life Sciences, SUSTech ".

Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Systems Biology was approved.

Biological Sciences was selected Guangdong provincial first-class discipline construction point.

The School of Life Sciences of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and the High School Affiliated to Southern University of Science and Technology (HSAS) held a two-way opening ceremony to promote the cultivation of innovative talents in the field of life sciences.