In March 2023, Fengyan Dai was awarded the honorary title of Outstanding Graduate of East China Normal University in 2023

On October 14, 2022, the selection of the 2021-2022 academic year postgraduate scholarship of the School of Life Sciences of East China Normal University was completed. After verification and public announcement, 5 doctoral candidates were finally confirmed to win the national scholarship. Haiqian Zhou were awarded the 2021-2022 academic year National Scholarship!

​On April 25, 2022, Haiqian Zhou was funded by the "Academic Innovation Enhancement Program for Excellent Doctoral Students" of East China Normal University. The program aims to forge the academic quality of graduate students, improve their innovation ability, and explore a new paradigm of excellent graduate education.

9 March 2022, Dongmin Yin, The Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, and his group published the article “Olfactory regulation by dopamine and DRD2 receptor in the nose” on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

From December 13 to 17, 2021, the College of Life Sciences held the first Graduate Academic Week and the Review of Excellent Academic Reports. Dr. Wei Han, presented a report “The mechanism of Neural Protection of Aspirin through Acetylation of CaMK2α”, which won the first prize in the excellent ora

November 2021, Yaoyi Wangs dissertation, “Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Neuregulin 1 Overexpression in GABAergic Interneurons”, which was awarded as an excellent doctoral dissertation.