{"id":2499,"date":"2021-03-10T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/?post_type=news&p=2499"},"modified":"2021-04-09T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:43:28","slug":"npust-and-kmu-publish-results-of-joint-attractive-new-project","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/news\/npust-and-kmu-publish-results-of-joint-attractive-new-project\/","title":{"rendered":"NPUST and KMU Publish Results of Joint Attractive New Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) and Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU) have been strategic alliance partners since 2009. A decade in, a new and very promising opportunity for cooperation has garnered a great deal of interest from their faculties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a framework that includes agricultural technology, medical technology, industry and humanities, the two academic institutions received a voluminous 40 applications in its first year. After the inter-university review committee completed the rigorous review, grants were provided for a total of 11 projects. On March 9th<\/sup>, in the lecture hall at the NPUST IH Building, the results of those projects were published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the event, NPUST President Chang-Hsien Tai highlighted the joint efforts, saying \u201cthe objective of this current inter-university cooperation is to integrate NPUST\u2019s Smart agriculture technology and vaccine biotechnology with KMU\u2019s medical resources. In addition to transforming traditional agriculture into precision agriculture, we hope to integrate a human biological database to inspire industry trends that focus on \u201cprecision health\u201d. We hope continue to expand cooperation between our universities as we put the concept of University Social Responsibility into practice\u2014taking advantage of both university\u2019s strengths to create more brilliant results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KMU president Yuh-Jyh Jong also remarked on the joint research, stating that \u201calong with societal aging trends throughout the world, great import has been attached to \u201cprecision health\u201d strategies. Through the cooperation and sharing of educational resources\u2014and through the processes of conducting interdisciplinary innovation\u2014 we will be able to increase R&D capacity of both universities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a starting point, the exchange and cooperation is looking at a wide range of topics including \u201cagriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry, production and processing, leisure sports, social work, environment and ecology, care for disadvantaged groups, placemaking, and wildlife conservation\u201d. The researchers will also combine \u201cprecision health\u201d with \u201cprecision medicine\u201d as the work to jointly encourage the development of a \u201cprecision health industry\u201d. In this way, the research and sharing are certain not only to create a win-win situation for the universities involved, but also for society as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n