中药学院始建于1985年，其前身是沈阳药学院中药系。学院现设有天然药物化学系和中药系。学院还设有学生实验中心、中药标本馆、药用植物园。
学院拥有国家中医药管理局中药化学和中药质量控制两个三级实验室、教育部与辽宁省创新药物研究与设计重点实验室、辽宁省中药现代化工程技术研究中心、中药资源研究与开发重点实验室、辽宁省天然药物提取分离与工业制备工程技术中心。还有沈阳药科大学与日本北海道药科大学共建的中成药分析研究室、沈阳药科大学与韩国东亚大学共建的中韩分子生药学研究室。
学院有药学和中药学两个一级学科博士学位授权点，十个二级学科博士点和药学博士后流动站。天然药物化学、生药学、中药学科都为省级重点学科，其中天然药物化学学科被辽宁省列为冲击国家重点学科的26个学科之一，中药学科为辽宁省重点发展的50个学科之一。中药资源学为辽宁省优势特色学科。天然药物化学被评为国家级精品课，生药学、有机化合物波谱解析、药用植物学被评为省级精品课，中药制剂分析学被评为校级精品课。中药学专业为国家级特色专业。天然药物化学团队为省级优秀教学团队，中药化学实验中心为省级教学示范中心。
学院现有教职工74人，其中专任教师48人。教师中有中国工程院院士1人，教授13人，副教授21人，97.9%的教师具有博士学位。教师中有辽宁省百千万人才工程百人层次7人，千人层次4人。学院教师实力雄厚，基础坚实，具有丰富的教学经验和很强的科技创新能力，在中药及天然药物活性成份研究领域处于国内外领先水平。近三年来承担国家重大科学研究计划项目7项， 国家授权专利53项，承担国家省市纵向课题157项，其中国家自然基金项目19项，发表SCI文章430余篇。
学院积极开展国际合作与交流，多次邀请国外知名专家来校讲学，积极选派青年教师到国外参加进修学习，促进了学科发展。先后承办第六届中日韩生药学国际学术研讨会、第十一届中药和天然药物学术研讨会、第十二届全国中药标本馆学术研讨会和第九届中国中药鉴定学教学研讨会等会议，为中药学的发展做出了积极的贡献。目前学院与美国，英国，葡萄牙，日本，韩国等多个国家的大学及研究机构建立了良好的合作关系，每年选派优秀本科生，研究生赴国外进行交流。
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School of Chinese Materia Medica was established in 1985, as the Department of Chinese Materia Medica of Shenyang Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The school consists of Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Department of Chinese Materia Medica. The school also has Student Experimental Center, Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as Medicinal Botanical Garden.
School of Chinese Materia Medica possesses a variety of research centers and laboratories, including
1. two tertiary laboratories of Chemistry of Chinese Materia Medica and Quality Control of Chinese Materia Medica, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of The People’s Republic of China.
2. Key Laboratories of Innovative Drug Research and Design, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and Liaoning Province.
3. Liaoning Engineering Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
4. Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resources Research and Development.
5. Liaoning Technology Center for Extraction and Separation of Natural Medicine and Industrial Preparation
6. Joint Analytical Laboratory for Chinese Patent Medicine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University and Hokkaido Pharmaceutical University.
7. Sino-Korea Molecular Pharmacogonosy Research Center, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University and Dong-A University.
School of Chinese Materia Medica is entitled to two primary-discipline Ph.D programs, Pharmacy and Science of Chinese Materia Medica, as well as twelve secondary-discipline Ph.D programs and post-doctoral programs in Pharmacy. Natural Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacognosy and Science of Chinese Materia Medica fall into the range of provincial key disciplines. Natural Medicinal Chemistry is selected by Liaoning Province as candidate for a national key discipline among 26 disciplines. Science of Chinese Materia Medica ranks as a key discipline among 50 disciplines in Liaoning Province. Science of Chinese Medicinal Resource is an competitive and special discipline in Liaoning Province. Natural Medicinal Chemistry won the title of national top-quality course. Pharmacognosy, Analysis of Organic Compound Spectra and Pharmaceutical Botany were evaluated as the provincial top-quality course. Chinese Drugs Pharmaceutics was rated as a school-level top-quality course.Science of Chinese Materia Medica is a national specialty. The team of Natural Medicinal Chemistry is a province-level excellent teaching team. Experimental Center for Chemistry of Chinese Materia Medica is a province-level teaching demonstration center.
There are 74 staff and faculty members in total and 48 of them are full-time. Among the faculty, there are one Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 13 professors and 21 associate professors. 97.9% of the faculty hold doctor degrees. There are 11 faculty members supported by Liaoning Thousands Talents Projects. All the faculty are excellent in their own research fields, experienced in teaching and have a solid research foundation. They have strong technological innovative capability, spearheading the research in Chinese Materia Medica and active pharmaceutical ingredients in natural medicine. In the past three years, School of Chinese Materia Medica have taken seven research projects from National Basic Research Program of China, 53 national patents, 157 vertical projects ranging from national to provincial and municipal level. There are 19 projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Moreover, over 430 SCI articles have been published.
School of Chinese Materia Medica takes effective measures to promote the sustainable development of disciplines by taking active international cooperation, inviting leading experts from home and abroad to give lectures, and sending young faculty members to study further abroad. The school makes a positive contribution to the development of Science of Chinese Materia Medica by hosting The 6th JSP-CCTCNM-KSP International Conference on Pharmacognosy, The 11thSymposium on Chinese Materia Medica and Natural Medicine, The 12th National Conference on Chinese Herb Medicine Museum, and The 9th China Authentication of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Currently, School of Chinese Materia Medica has established cooperative relationship with universities and research institutions in the United States, Japan, Korea and so forth. The school selects top undergraduates and graduate students to participate in overseas exchange programs every year.