(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.

(一)未來之展望 

致力培育生物醫學與環境生物學之人才。
積極建立海外基地以拓展師生國際移動力。
積極推廣生物科學之應用與發展。
推動跨系院以結合附設醫院以及各大學與研究機構間的合作。
培養具有生技創業之人才。
培養智慧財產專利師之人才。
加強與國內外大學相關學術研究之交流。

(二)本系研究方向

生物醫學組：

從癌基因變異及癌細胞凋亡機制之探討，進而發展癌症之基因治療。
探討Epstein-Barr病毒之分子生物學，以了解其致癌及致病之機制。
從遺傳疾病基因變異之探討，進而發展疾病之動物模式。
利用抗體基因工程，發展基因療法和開發治療癌症或病毒之蛋白質藥物。
開發非侵犯性造影系統以追蹤基因於活體內之表現。
利用功能性基因體學發現藥靶，並針對藥靶研發藥物。
以數位基因多型性，探討疾病之變異，進而發展個人化醫療監測。

環境生物組：

利用生物資訊的研究方法，以系統模擬嘗試發現生物與生物，及生物與環境的關係。
利用現代生物技術，研究在逆境環境下，生物如何因應與生活。
利用分子生物方法，以系統分類觀念探討生物演化系統及物種種化之機制。
利用個體行為及族群生態方法，研究環境之各項因子運作及其與生物和人類相互作用之關係。
加強南部生物多樣性的研究，擴大與產業界的交流。