| History│Education
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After 20 years of development, National Yang-Ming Medical College was finally granted university status and became the National Yang-Ming University in 1994 and continued with new and existing groundbreaking educational goals in the field of medicine. Nine of the School of Medicine foundational medicine disciplines were also combined into the School of Life Sciences at the same time to prepare for the advent of the new era of life sciences.
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When initially established, the School of Life Sciences combined the following departments and institutes: Institute of Neuroscience, Institute of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute of Biochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Institute of Pharmacology, Institute of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Institute of Genetics, Institute of Parasitology, and Institute of Biopharmaceutical Science.
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Though Institute of Physiology, Institute of Pharmacology, Institute of Anatomy & Cell Biology, and Institute of Parasitology were finally combined with the School of Medicine according to a resolution made at the school administration meeting in January 2002 and the new Institute of Bioinformatics was founded under the School of Life Sciences in 2003.
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When the school first began operation, Professor Chung-Ming Chang was appointed deputy dean (1994-5). The following March Professor Ming-Ta Hsu was selected as the school's first official dean (1995-2001). In 2001 Professor Te-Chang Lee was appointed as the second dean (2001-2004). In 2005 Professor Gu-Gang Chang was appointed as the school's third dean (2005-present).
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To provide multidimensional opportunities for learning the sciences that relate to life; to cultivate skilled individuals with a complete understanding and competence in life sciences, independent thinking and problem-solving abilities.
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1. Undergraduate (the Faculty of Life Sciences)
(1). To implement core life sciences courses with a focus on consistency of course content.
(2). Independent student counseling mechanism: Seminar and Student counseling courses
(3). The promotion of the 5-year-program for bachelor's and Master's degrees
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2. Postgraduate
Programs are designed to allow new areas of specialization or study in the discipline in order to provide the latest knowledge and developments for students to allow the development of a foundation at the forefront studies of life sciences. Presently, the school offers the following interdisciplinary and interdepartmental programs: Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, Biotechnology Management (NYMU and NCCU), Molecular Medicine (NYMU and Academia Sinica), Molecular Medicine for International Students (NYMU and Academia Sinica), and Bioinformatics for International Students (NYMU and Academia Sinica).
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Every Faculty member of the School of Life Sciences conducts research according to their areas of specialization or interest, and the results are excellent. They start from a point and research into the topic either horizontally or vertically; establish genomic, molecular, cellular and in vivo research systems to study genes, protein molecules, bacteria, viruses, cells, enzymes and higher organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster, mice, and humans. Furthermore, Faculty members of the School of Life Sciences are playing an important role in the following two research projects supported by the MOE under the Pursuit of Academia Excellence Program: Study on the Genomics-based Biomedicine for the 21st Century; and Human Brain Exploration Project: the Study of Genes to Cognition; and the National Research Program for Genomic Medicine's inter-institution team.
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Many Faculty members have been awarded the NSC Excellent Research Award, NSC Contract Research Award, MOE Academic Award, MOE National Trophy, Qing-king Yen Outstanding Award for Foundational Medicine Research. Their achievements in hepatitis, liver cancer, genomic science, brain science and molecular cell biology are esteemed worldwide. Overall, our achievements in research into structure-based biochemistry and biopharmacology have been very fruitful and so much promise.
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Though the Faculty of Life Sciences is a new member of the School of Life Sciences, many students are pursuing higher academic achievements at institutions home and abroad, graduates of our postgraduate programs have demonstrated excellent performances in the field. In fact, many graduates of our Doctoral programs are now in key positions in public or private academic institutions or related industries.
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