Chi-Hung Lin, President / Haydn Chen, Chief Strategy Officer Nurturing talents is the primary responsibility of a university and talents are the assets to the society for they are the ones to define, create, enrich, sustain or tarnish the future of all human living on earth. It behooves all of us working in higher education, as well those in the primary and secondary education, to design curriculum with updated composition and content that would facilitate the young minds to learn knowledge, skills, creativity, ethics, empathy, communication, team spirit so they can contribute valuably to the society and fulfill their civil…

Western food and genetic inheritance are considered the main risk factors of intestinal inflammation, which has become increasingly prevalent in Taiwan. The research collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and Harvard University identified herbicides as a risk factor that deteriorates such inflammation. This discovery marks a breakthrough regarding the effect of environmental factors on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and has therefore been published in Nature. IBD mainly includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. In Taiwan, the prevalence of ulcerative colitis increased from 2.1 patients per 100,000 population in 2001 to 12.8 patients per 100,000 population in 2015,…

On February 10, the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a Japan-Kyushu Delegation to exchange views and pursue collaborations on frontier semiconductor technology. The Delegation contains forty-plus members from the government (Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan), industry, and education sectors, which is unprecedented in terms of both the size and the constituents of the representatives. The Delegation was well received by Prof. Da-song Li, Senior Vice President, Professor Zhen-huan Tang, Vice President, Prof. Li-jun Wang, Dean of the College and Prof. Bo-hong Chen, Director of the Institute of Electronics. Speaking fluently in Japanese, Director Chen, a…

AACSB International (AACSB) announced on January 26, 2023 that the College of Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (“NYCU CoM”) has extended its global accreditation in business accreditation. For more than a century, AACSB accreditation has been synonymous with the highest standards in business education. Today, a total of 965 institutions across 60 countries and territories have earned AACSB accreditation in business. Only 5% of the world’s business schools hold the distinction of AACSB accreditation. The reaccreditation came following a rigorous process that involved extensive reporting, a comprehensive peer review, and a site visit by leaders in the academic business community. Due to COVID-19, the…

Dear faculty, students, colleagues, and alumni, While we just celebrated the year 2023, the traditional Lunar New Year is quickly upon us; not far behind is the second anniversary of NYCU on February 1st. On this special occasion, I wish you a happy new year and would like to share with you a sneak preview of the main anniversary theme – Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis describes the process of a larva in the cocoon gradually transforming into a flyable insect. We use the word "metamorphosis" to symbolize the transformation of NYCU, a newly merged university. NYCU enters her third year following three…

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) established a COVID-19 research alliance on February 6, 2020, to jointly research and develop rapid test kits, antiviral drugs, and vaccines. A key facility overseeing relevant research and development projects is the Biosafey Level 3 (P3) laboratory constructed on the 10th floor of the health technology building of TVGH. The laboratory received approval from the Centers for Disease Control of Taiwan on December 23, 2022, for conducting SARS-CoV-2 research. On January 12, an initiation ceremony for the P3 laboratory was…

The 2022 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition was held in Paris, France at the end of October. Two NYCU teams, NYCU_Formosa and NYCU-Taipei iGEM, competed with 356 teams from top universities from around the world and each won a gold medal. Moreover, the NYCU_Formosa team was nominated for Best Manufacturing Project, and the NYCU-Taipei iGEM team was awarded the Team Impact Grant. Guided by Professor Wen-Liang Chen and Assistant Professor Lee Hsiao-Ching, the NYCU_Formosa team from NYCU’s Boai Campus developed biomaterials for use in regenerative medicine through simulating self-assembling peptides in Drosophila proteins and combined bioinformatics engineering with BioArt.…

We may need not cut our diet to live longer anymore. On 0.1-cm-long nematodes, scientist have found a molecular mechanism where dietary restriction promote autophagy and delay aging. This finding has laid a clear path for determining the appropriate target of antiaging drugs. Several animal models have proven dietary restriction or calorie intake restriction in promoting autophagy and delaying aging. This is because autophagy is an inherent function of the body cells that removes damaged organelles for cell regeneration and is more obvious under certain conditions, with dietary restriction being one of them. In recent research, scientists have found that…

In late September, a delegation of medical and engineering professors from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) traveled to the U.S. to visit the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the University of Missouri (MU). The purpose of this trip was to establish research collaborations with these two universities and thereby develop NYCU’s strengths in medicine and engineering. NYCU President Chi-Hung Lin first led the delegation to visit UIUC and sign a letter of intent of education and research collaboration with Timothy L. Killeen, President of the University of Illinois (UI) System. The signing of the letter of intent…

Obesity is a common disease in civilization. Scholars have confirmed its association with various metabolic disorders. However, a problem remains to be addressed regarding why specific obese individuals can remain healthy. Recent study has identified stomatin as a key factor causing obesity-related chronic diseases. Stomatin is a protein encoded by the STOM gene and exists prevalently on the membranes or the organelle surface of various cells. It can be discovered in peripheral blood, embryos, and organs such as the fat, bone marrow and placenta. Previous scholars considered stomatin to be a membrane protein associated with overhydrated hereditary stomatocytosis. However, a…