{"entity":{"id":"west-china","kind":"institution","name":"West China Hospital, Sichuan University","aka":[],"tldr":"West China Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the world and a top-4 Nature Index healthcare institution, strong in oncology and biotherapy.","summary":"West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu is one of the largest hospitals in the world and was ranked fourth among healthcare institutions in the Nature Index 2025, with oncology and biotherapy among its strengths. It houses the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, performs high-volume cancer surgery and is building an early-phase trial programme, with Yuquan Wei, You Lu and Weimin Li among the people OnCo lists. OnCo links it to the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology and to the bottleneck that most of the world has almost no cancer care, since a single hospital of this size serves a very large region. How its research output translates into trials that regulators outside China accept is the open question. Its biotherapy and early-phase programmes are the entry points.","asOf":"2026-09-04","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_China_Hospital","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://www.wchscu.cn"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":["wei-yuquan","lu-you","li-weimin"],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Chengdu","country":"CN","lat":30.642,"lng":104.043,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.wchscu.cn","programs":["Biotherapy","Early-phase trials"]},"route":"/institutions/west-china/","neighbours":{"person":[{"id":"li-weimin","kind":"person","name":"Weimin Li","route":"/people/li-weimin/"},{"id":"lu-you","kind":"person","name":"You Lu","route":"/people/lu-you/"},{"id":"wei-yuquan","kind":"person","name":"Yuquan Wei","route":"/people/wei-yuquan/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-global-access","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Most of the world has almost no cancer care","route":"/bottlenecks/b-global-access/"}],"institution":[{"id":"csco","kind":"institution","name":"Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology","route":"/institutions/csco/"}]}}