Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City, Taiwan, have announced the creation of the International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology that will facilitate the collaboration of research across three continents and accelerate the development of novel bioengineering, diagnostic and biomedical products for the treatment and cure of disease.
According to Murugan Anandarajan, editor of e-Research Collaboration, Springer (2010), technologies such as Web 2.0 have helped drastically lower the barriers of geography and time to bring researchers from across the world together to work synergistically and more productively. “Virtual Research infrastructures are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and are devoted 100% to the task of research. They provide powerful tools that help researchers perform their research tasks more effectively”. These research portals are essentially the new form of research for the 21st century, he concluded.
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A research team composed of Taiwanese and French academics has won this year’s Taiwan-France Science and Technology Award for their study on how to prevent proliferation of glial cells, or how to balance brain cell numbers, the National Science Council (NSC) announced on Wednesday.
The Taiwanese researchers, headed by Chien Cheng-ting, a research fellow and professor at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Molecular Biology, were responsible for the study on glial cell missing protein degradation, while the French researchers, headed by Angela Giangrande, focused on studying glial progenitors.
Through cooperation with France in this field, aid, Taiwan will be able to cooperate with EU academic institutions in cancer-related research in the future.
The two countries have signed 11 cooperative agreements covering 56 programs, with Taiwan conducting 165 cooperative research projects with various French universities.
Such collaborations are becoming more common with the advent of virtual infrastructures such as MyNetResearch