The education of doctoral graduate students in basic medicine adheres to the educational philosophy of Tsinghua University's value which is shaping, ability training, and knowledge transfer. Such education offers efforts in cultivating talents which are good at basic medical research and innovative spirits. At present, we have a number of characteristic disciplines such as development and regeneration, tumors, immunity, pathogenic microorganisms and infectious diseases, medical biochemistry and genetics, and neurobiology and neurodegenerative diseases.