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Introduction The Institute of Biotechnology
Personnel. The
faculty of IBT consists of 9 full-time members, including 8 full
professors and 1 associate professor. Thy all received Ph.D. degree
from U.S.A. IBT faculty are actively engaged in the following research
areas: molecular biology, cell biology, biochip technology, molecular
toxicology, molecular carcinogenesis, repair mechanism for nuclear
acids, brain research, learning and memory, bio-imaging, molecular
bio-structure, molecular modeling, drug design, applied microbiology,
virology and vaccine, bioengineering, immunology and biotech industrial
development and management. Each faculty member leads a laboratory
consisting of Ph.D. and M.S. students. Currently, IBT has 36 students
in Ph.D. program and 50 students in Master program. Thus, each laboratory
trains about 8-9 graduate students.
Research fund. IBT research is mostly funded by
National Science Council and partly by the Ministry of Education,
Ministry of Economy, National Health Research Institute and private
sectors. In the last five years, IBT receives about 110 million
NTD research fund in total. It is the goal of IBT to increase the
proportion of funding support from private biotech industry. In
return, we will develop and supply useful intellective technology
and patents.
Teaching. Graduate program of IBT offers more than
30 basic and applied courses in the field of Biotechnology. We recognize
all graduate courses offered by faculty members in other institutes
in the College of Life Science. Co-courses such as Advanced Cell
Biology, Advanced Molecular Biology, and Advanced Biotechnology
etc. offered by groups of faculty specialized in the respective
field providing a strong background training for our graduate students.
In addition, specialty courses are offered to fulfill special needs
of individual students. In the future, we will especially emphasize
on laboratory courses to offer students hand on experience of basic
experimental skills. This is particularly important for students
pursuing carrier in biotech industry.
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