A delegation from the 2018 Taiwan-ASEAN Drug Regulatory Forum visited NHRI on September 6, 2018 as part of their site-visit program organized by the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Shiow-Ing Wu, Secretary General extended her warmest welcome to the group on behalf of NHRI. The group was then briefed…
September 18, 2018 In June of 2018, the WHO officially classified Gaming Disorder as a psychiatric disorder, with the protests from major gaming companies worldwide. Players and people were generally confused: what does constitute internet gaming addiction? Is it just simply spending a lot of time playing? Dr. Yu-Hsuan…
Dr. Chi-Hon Lee, Director of Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica presented on 2018 Biomedical Research Symposium of NHRI.
An 8-member delegation from the Kingdom of eSwatini, formerly known as the Kingdom of Swaziland visited NHRI on July 19th, 2018 as part of their oncology specialist training program organized by Taipei Medical University under Taiwan’s medical mission. The group of doctors, nurses, radiographers and laboratory technicians aims to receive…
A team led by Dr. Tze-Sing Huang from the National Institute of Cancer Research, in collaboration with Taipei Veterans General Hospital, reported extracellular HSP90α (eHSP90α) can be potentially taken as a target to suppress pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) pathogenesis besides myeloid cells. The team detected a significant elevation of serum…
July 17, 2018 Statistical data of Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare indicate that breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women. Although common subtypes of breast cancer have a 5 years survival rate of over 85%, certain subtypes such as basal like triple negative breast cancer…
Young offspring of individuals with opioid use disorders have great exposure to a wide array of social disadvantages and stressors. Dr. Chuan-Yu Chen, Join Appointed Investigator with the Center for Neuropsychiatric Research and her team, therefore, investigated excess mortality rate before the age of six and predictors of premature death…
Cells expressing mesenchymal/basal phenotypes in tumors have been associated with stem cell properties, while cancer stem cells (CSCs) are often resistant to conventional chemotherapy. A team led by Dr. Hua-Jung Li from the Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, explored overcoming mesenchymal CSC resistance to chemotherapeutic agents with the goal…
President Kung-Yee Liang Liang recently received interview from his alma meta, University of Washington. The following is the full interview by UW School of Public Health News. ALUMNI Q&A: KUNG-YEE LIANG MAKES IT TO THE TOP IN TAIWAN Kung-Yee Liang (PhD, Biostatistics ’82) is the new president of Taiwan’s National…
May 22, 2018 Liver cancer has been the leading cancer death in Taiwan until 2004, when overcome by lung cancer. After that, liver cancer remains the second leading cancer death till now. Currently, there are more than 11,000 new liver cancer patients per year in Taiwan, and there were 8,323 patients…
