Bioengineering

The course gives an introduction of the biotech pharmaceutical industry and also focuses on the development of biotech medicine, small molecule drug, protein drug, and regulations and business aspects of the industry. Course topics: Biotech Pharmaceutical Industry Overview, Biotechnology entrepreneurship and investment, biotech medicine business success stories, business development strategy of biotech pharmaceutical industry, gene decoding's impact on development of biotech medicine, nanotechnology in biotechnology applications and challenges, intellectual property rights and management, small molecule drug development, protein drug development, clinical trials and regulations, pharmaceutical production and regulations, biotech business enterprises. The course consists of weekly lecture, a midterm, and a final. The course is conducted in Chinese, but uses an English textbook.

This course covers the high throughput nucleotide sequencing technologies (ChIP-seq, DNA-seq, RNA-seq, single cell), epigenetics, circulating DNA, and mutational load. Topics also include cancer molecular databases, data extraction and analysis, and an introduction to the use of NGS software and coding.

This course gives a broad overview of neural engineering concepts and principles for recording outgoing and generating ingoing neural signals. The course gives insights into existing and future neural interfaces, neural prostheses, and neurorobotics.  It covers principles and technologies of neuroengineering applications, including basic human neuroanatomy and physiology, brain stimulator, spinal cord stimulation, functional electrical stimulation (FES), neural-machine interface for motor prosthesis control, artificial vision, and auditory devices for augmented sensory perception.

The six-week summer lab research program at National Taiwan University places students in various science, engineering and social science research labs and/or projects under the supervision of faculty. Students spend approximately 30 hours per week in lab activities.