(1) Future Prospects

Commit to training skilled persons in biomedicine and environmental biology.

Establish an overseas base positively to expand the international mobility of faculty and students.

Promote the applications and development in biological science positively.

Promote interdisciplinary departments and colleges to link the affiliated university with the collaboration between universities and research institutes.

Train skilled persons in biotech startups

Train skilled persons of patent attorneys in intellectual property.

Strengthen the exchange of related academic research in domestic and foreign universities.

(2) Direction of Department Research

Biomedical Science Program:

Discuss oncogene mutation and apoptosis mechanism to thereby develop the gene therapy of cancers.

Discuss the molecular biology of the Epstein-Barr virus, in order to understand the mechanisms of carcinogenesis and virulence.

Discuss the gene mutation of genetic diseases to thereby develop an animal disease model.

Apply genetic engineering of antibodies to develop gene therapy and protein therapeutics for treating cancer or virus.

Develop a non-invasive imaging system to trace gene expression in living bodies.

Find targeted therapy through functional genomics, and focus on targeted therapy and develop drugs.

Discuss the mutation of diseases based on digital genetic polymorphisms to develop precision medical monitoring.

Environmental Biology Program:

Adopt bioinformatics to attempt and find the relation between organism and organism and between organism and the environment through system simulation.  

Apply modern biotechnology to study how organisms cope and live in a hostile environment.

Apply molecular biology to discuss the mechanism of biological evolution and specification based on the concept of system classification.

The study of operating environmental factors and the interaction between organisms and humans using individual behavior and population ecology. Strengthen the research on biodiversity in southern Taiwan and expand the exchange with the industries.