Digital transformation and internationalization provide a great opportunity for businesses in Taiwan and Asia to grow and sustain global competition. In response to the government’s action plan and policies to improve the performance of domestic, overseas corporations and businesses sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Culture University established the Institute for Innovation Economy with an aim to offer cutting-edge research and business solutions on industry innovation and sustainable system development. Led by Prof. Min-Ren Yan with the forward-looking insights on the global economy from United Nations Development Program and Asian Productivity Organization, MIT’s System Dynamics affiliate, the institute has periodically published research paper series and books on sustainable system development (SSD) and applications of cloud computing supported management science in an attempt to provide suggestions and recommendations for new or innovative business models. The institute has leading expertise in (1) promoting global brands and business innovation (market development), (2) management system for startups and digital transformation (operational excellence), (3) enterprise asset management and human capital development (talent development).
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CCU College of Law Pave
Chinese Culture University College of Law was established in 1962. It is a well-known law school with a long history in Taiwan and has cultivated countless numbers of outstanding legal talents. Currently, Chinese Culture University College of Law offers various degrees, including LL.B., LL.M., Professional LL.M., and PhD. It is a private university law school having the second largest number of students in Taiwan. Chinese Culture University College of Law has more than 30 full-time faculty and more than 60 adjunct professors who are judges, lawyers, and experts in the industry. Our faculty are not only dedicated to conducting academic research and instructing Master’s and PhD theses, but they also participate in the enactment of laws and provide industry, government, and academic institutions social services and other legal matters. In recent years, in order to cultivate corporate legal and financial talents, we held the “Financial Law and Corporate Innovation and Management Conference” annually, which has earned a fairly high academic reputation in the financial law sector.
Chinese Culture University College of Law has performed outstandingly amongst the nation’s competitive law schools in Taiwan and has won the following recent awards:
★Top 10 Colleges of Liberal Arts, Law, and Business in Taiwan－2020 Global View Monthly.
★Top 8 Colleges of Liberal Arts, Law, and Business in Taiwan－2018 Global View Monthly.
★Best College for its Law and Politics Departments － Recommended by Global View Monthly in 2016.
★Featured Department for the Best University Guide－2015 CommonWealth Magazine in 2015.
★Gold Medal in the “Law/Politics Field” with six well-known universities in Taiwan, including National Taiwan University and National Cheng Chi University by the “Survey on Corporate’s Favorite Graduate School ” －2014 Global View Monthly published.
TMU joins Elementary Schools to promote knowledge of dementia
Led by Professor Yi-Hsin Hsu as the Principal Investigator, Taipei Medical University worked with a group of elementary schools to improve students’ understanding of aging and dementia. Asking the students to compile a book on the life stories of their grandparents, the program enhanced the grandparent-grandchild relationship while promoting neuroscience and disseminating current scientific knowledge on dementia, a major neurological brain disease.
Through the partnerships with Ruifang Elementary School and Yifang Elementary School in New Taipei City and Zhongxiao Elementary School in Taipei City, over 200 students and their families participated. A total of 50 students were selected to present their outstanding work at TMU in May 2021.
Principal Chuan-Chuan Lu of Ruifang Elementary School pointed out that the life story book project was very meaningful. In the writing of the storybook, the dialogue with grandparents has enhanced family interaction and deepened relationships.
Dean Li-Juing Wu of the College of Education at the National Taipei University of Education, who participated in the review, said that history is not only found in textbooks; it is also the living history spoken from the mouths of grandparents, and this type of historical exploration is warm and can be touching.
Professor Hsu and associate professor Yang have been teaching the humanities course in TMU since 2014. The course integrated assignment “Life book writing for our grandparents (LB4OG)” where young people write storybooks on the life story of their elders so that the students can develop a deeper understanding of a future aging society. Over the past seven years, 400 books of family history have been created by college students. The publication of innovative assignment was accepted by the international medical education journal, Medical Education (Impact Factor 4.570, Ranking 4.8%).
This project aims to train a group of seed teachers to promote popular medical science and will continue to be jointly rolled out in more schools in the future. It is hoped that these partner elementary schools will integrate this activity into their future curriculum, facilitating the continuous dissemination of medical popular science and health knowledge.
Clinical venture and innovators assess new biomed accelerator projects in TMUxBE Accelerator’s Demo Day 2021
The TMUxBE Accelerator’s Demo Day is the first Hospital Joint Venture in Taiwan that focuses on innovative counselling projects for smart healthcare. The exhibition of projects passing the first-phase selection was held in July 2021.
Nine biomedical start-up companies shared their experience in product development and how they accelerated business growth. These nine groups’ products span fields from AI disease prediction, AI smart co-employment, and smart wearable devices, to big data analysis platforms, peritoneal dialysis platforms, lung disease care, and biotechnology analysis reagents.
In addition to showcasing actual results, this event also promoted the upcoming Market Expansion Pilot Trial. US Partner Christine Winoto, Executive Director of UCSF Rosenman Institute in the United States; and Japan Partner Yujiro Maeda, Co-director of Japan Biodesign & Co-founder of Premo Partner, were invited to participate and facilitate overseas expansion of Taiwan’s medical startup teams.
The TMU Biomed Accelerator is the first international-level innovative medical university accelerator in Taiwan, targeting three major themes including digital medicine, artificial intelligence and medical equipment.
Taking advantage of TMU healthcare system’s resources and exoertise, the Biomed Accelerator guides start-up teams in developing strategies for product clinical trials to accelerate commercialization of their research outcomes and linkage with the international ecosystem.
TMU student wins the Future Fellowship 2021/2022 Grant for Women in Science
Thomashire Anita George, a third-year Ph.D. student in the College of Biomedical Engineer of Taipei Medical University won The Future Fellowship 2021/2022 Grant for Women in Science offered by the Schlumberger Foundation.
The Schlumberger Foundation is committed to gender equality in science; by providing research scholarships for outstanding female scientists, it strengthens women’s ability and influence in scientific development. Recipients must have excellent academic research and demonstrate that they are committed to returning to their home country after graduation to promote the economic, social and technological development.
Anita is from the Republic of Sierra Leone. She is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and was an attending physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the military hospital. In addition, she also served as the director of the Department of Microbiology in the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences at the University of Sierra Leone.
Anita came to Taipei Medical University to pursue her studies in order to learn more professional knowledge and improve her skills in biomedical engineering. Her thesis advisor is Professor Thierry Burnouf and her co-advisor is Professor David Lundy. She likes the learning environment in Taipei Medical University and is very grateful to her two advisors for their guidance.
After graduating, she will return to her home country to help establish a national-level medical and health system. With the professional knowledge and skills she has learned at TMU, she will establish an institute of biomedical engineering with University of Sierra Leone to provide a learning environment for students who are committed to biomedical engineering research. She hopes that the institute can cultivate outstanding medical engineering talents, enhancing social and economic development, as well as the national welfare.
TMU’s research indicates hope for Alzheimer’s treatment
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The global Alzheimer’s population continues to rise rapidly. The Taiwan Alzheimer’s Disease Association estimates that one out of every 80 people has dementia in Taiwan. According to the Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), the global Alzheimer’s population will grow up to 152 million people by 2050. This means that there will be one person suffering from Alzheimer’s in every 3 seconds; no effective medicine has been found in current.
A research team comprising members from Taipei Medical University (TMU), the National Health Research Institutes and the Tri-Service General Hospital has found that immune chemokines (CCL5) can regulate the activity of hippocampal neurons in mice to improve the memory circuits formation, as well as learning and memory ability. This research was recently published in the top neuroscience journal, Molecular Psychiatry, under the world-renowned Nature series.
Associate Professor Szu-Yi Chou from the Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine at TMU pointed out that 90% of the CCL5 is expressed by neurons in the hippocampal gyrus, where there is a response for memory formation. The study found that CCL5 greatly affects the aerobic metabolism in neurons and contributes to memory-cognition performance in mice. This suggests that CCL5 plays a pivotal role in the regulation of neuronal energy and affects the immediate energy supply during the process of memory formation.
Associate Professor Szu-Yi Chou reiterated that direct use of immune chemokines for treatment may bring high risks and is therefore not the best solution. Future research mainly further identifies applicable drugs that are based on the mechanism, such as finding safe drugs that can increase the function of CCL5 in order to achieve the effect of improving learning and memory.
Head Trauma: Towards a new treatment
An international collaboration (NeuroTMULille international laboratory) between Taipei Medical University (Ouada Nebie, Thierry Burnouf) and Lille Neuroscience & Cognition (David Blum, David Devos, Luc Buée) just published in the journal “Brain” that the complex pathological consequences of TBI can be alleviated by the delivery of a Human Platelet Lysate (HPL) specifically formulated for brain administration.
The published work demonstrated that HPL improved motor function, mitigated neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in the injured cortical area and reduced synaptic alterations in two mouse models of TBI. “This platelet biotherapy would represent a treatment addressing the multiple physio-pathological causes of TBI and avoid progression towards neurodegenerative processes” David Blum commented on the findings.
HPL are composed of a balanced composition of protective neurotrophic factors with the capacity to activate multiple biological protective pathways and represent a novel therapeutic approach in regenerative medicine. They are prepared from platelet concentrates collected by whole blood donations or apheresis procedures from healthy donors. Platelet concentrates, the source of the human platelet lysates, are essential medicine according to the WHO, and are available worldwide, meeting stringent quality and safety criteria in many countries.
“Our results suggest the importance of a careful formulation of human platelet lysates to ensure optimal safety and efficacy for brain administration. The potential, yet to be confirmed in humans, to deliver this product by the intranasal route opens extremely exciting prospects in the treatment of neurological diseases,” commented Thierry Burnouf.
“The potential, yet to be confirmed in humans, to deliver this product by the intranasal route opens extremely exciting prospects in the treatment of a range of brain neurological diseases. It is now vital to move into further pre-clinical assessment and carefully controlled and monitored clinical studies, ” added Thierry Burnouf.
AICEE hosts 2021 Taiwan Higher Education and Chinese Learning Virtual Fair
The “2021 Taiwan Higher Education and Chinese Learning Virtual Fair,” hosted by the Association of International Cultural and Educational Exchange Taiwan (AICEE Taiwan) was launched in May and has attracted 52 universities and Chinese language centers across the country to participate. The virtual fair aims to provide international students with the most convenient application consultation service on the exclusive website of the virtual fair.
As countries around the world begin to vaccinate their citizens against the Covid-19, international exchanges will gradually resume. In order to promote Taiwan’s higher education and Chinese teaching capacity, the virtual fair breaks through tradition and invites Taiwan’s opinion leaders to speak to the international community, including Wen-tsan Cheng, Mayor of Taoyuan City, Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of the Executive Yuan, Yun Fan, Legislator, Diann-wen Tang, Representative of Taipei Mission in Korea, Jhy-wey Shieh, Representative of Taipeh Vertretung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and Arnold Chiang, the Co-founder of Hahow. In the opening speech videos, they welcomed more international students to study in Taiwan in the future.
CJ Liu, President of AICEE Taiwan, said that from the perspective of “Blue Ocean Strategy”, the implementation of the virtual fair is very innovative. The virtual fair not only invites Taiwan’s opinion leaders to promote Taiwan, but also fully displays Taiwan education capacity by the joint participation of universities and Chinese language centers.
In his speech, Wen-tsan Cheng, the Mayor of Taoyuan City encouraged international students to study in Taiwan when the pandemic is eased, and emphasized that there are currently about 4,700 international students in Taoyuan City, and they can feel the atmosphere of freedom, democracy and progress in Taiwan. Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister, pointed out that Taiwan is a society with vibrant democracy. All international students who love science and culture are welcomed to come to Taiwan and contribute their talents.
Diann-wen Tang, Taiwan’s representative in South Korea, said that in addition to high-quality university programs, Taiwan also provides comprehensive and efficient Chinese learning programs. Combining daily life and cultural contextual learning will help learners quickly improve their Chinese language skills. Jhy-wey Shieh, Taiwan’s representative in Germany, delivered a speech in fluent German, emphasizing that Chinese is taught in many parts of the world, but if you want to learn Chinese in a place where you can keep your civil rights and freedom of speech, Taiwan is the best choice for international students.
Legislator Yun Fan said in her speech that Taiwan is a global high-tech research and development center, and many well-known companies have cooperated with Taiwan’s universities to offer advanced STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programs. On the other hand, Taiwan is also a suitable place for learning Chinese. Arnold Chiang, the co-founder of Hahow, took the online epidemic prevention course in cooperation with the former Vice President Chien-jen Chen last year as an example to share how Taiwan has successfully used information technology to link civil society and epidemic prevention knowledge to construct real-time and effective communication model.
The virtual fair website has rich multimedia materials, including introduction and admission talks from universities and Chinese language centers and the testimony videos from international students currently studying in Taiwan. International students who are interested in Taiwan, after watching the reference videos, can search and match schools based on their areas of interest. If they have any information needs for the schools they are interested in, they can also make the inquiries on the website and get immediate responses.
In addition, the virtual fair provides a themed exhibition area, focusing on the most interesting and inquiring programs to international students, including Chinese learning, artificial intelligence and big data, regional studies, interdisciplinary, innovation and entrepreneurship, and public health. Prospective students can grasp the essential information of each school in the fastest and most convenient way.
Chih-wei Hung, CEO of AICEE Taiwan, pointed out that according to the Association’s survey of college students in Taiwan last November, more than 40% of the interviewees believed that interacting with international students can improve international literacy and achieve the goal of “internationalization at home.” In order to create a more diverse and international campus, this virtual fair breaks the traditional physical education exhibition format to interact with potential overseas students in a digital and innovative way.
This virtual fair is held in an innovative way and is of great significance. Therefore, many well-known companies, universities and Chinese language centers participated in this virtual fair by sponsoring and serving as partners, including Hua Nan Bank, TrueFull Land, National Sun Yat-sen University, National Chung Cheng University, Shih Chien University, Soochow University, Chinese Culture University, Chang Jung Christian University, China Medical University, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei Medical University, Tamkang University, University of Taipei, Chang Jung Christian University Chinese Language and Culture Center, Chinese Culture University Mandarin Learning Center, Da-Yeh University Chinese Language Center, National Peingtung University Chinese Language Center, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology Chinese Language Center, National Sun Yat-sen University Chinese Language Center, National Taitung University Chinese Language Teaching and Study Center, National Dong Hwa University Chinese Language Center, Shih Chien University Chinese Language Center, Soochow University Chinese Language Center, Nanhua University Chinese Language Center, and Yuanpei University of Medical technology Chinese Language Learning Center.
TMU reaches out to the local communities
Taipei Medical University(TMU) links arts with community care to promote good practice in enhancing health of the elderly in the local communities.
In collaboration with Chiayi County Health Bureau in southern Taiwan, the TMU Center
for Arts and Humanities once again took its health empowerment program to southwestern
Taiwan with a series of activities including handicraft courses, puzzle games
and qigong courses for the elderly in Chiayi County.
Integrating learning of knowledge and visitation to galleries and museums, the community care helps improve the elderly’s quality of life through immersion in artifacts. In doing so, the idea of “localizing the artistic culture, aestheticizing the community medical care” is brought alive.
The significance of active ageing is to “activate” the vitality, the meaningful living, the wisdom of the elderly, and the solutions for an ageing society through the high-quality services for the elderly with singing, dining and
living together of fun.
Apart from paying attention to one’s own physical health under the pandemic, companionship and mental health are of importance to keep one from panic or anxiety while the social distancing policy is being widely implemented.
For that reason, Taipei Medical University Active Aging Center has been offering group courses such as gong sound healing and body structural realignment to communities since October 2020, bringing much-appreciated color into the daily life of senior citizens in the neighbourhood.