Similar to the history of chemistry developed in last century, life science (especially in the field of bioinformatics) is now undergoing a big change from a qualitative, descriptive science to a quantitative science, which may finally leads to occurrence of next industrial revolution. In the history of chemistry, it was quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics that made chemistry to be a quantitative discipline of science. Life system is, however, a very huge and complex system from perspective of chemical engineering, which makes a quantification in life science very challenging and only possible through an interdisciplinary approach. Most of researches nowdays in the field of systems biology focus on studying equilibrium behavior of homogeneous systems, while those more interesting and important phenomena, nonequilibrium behavior of multiscale and inhomogeneous systems within a elegant biological environment, have been rarely investigated. The latter is also true for an integrational study of transport phenomena, biochemical reaction, and network of cell signals. A current blooming of systems biology and medicine indicates a possible, fundamental change of research strategy and methodology in biology and medicine from the traditional reductionism to a system study. In this situation, the Institute focus on first exploring multiscale details of biological processes at all levels of molecules, cells, tissue, organ, human body and surrounding environment, and then try to understand the underlying mechanisms of those multiscale cooperational processes. We believe that progress in this field will not only provide a guidance for a fast bio-inspired design of soft intelligent robots, but also boost an integration of western and Chinese medicine in a near future.