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[ISSUE CoM] Tumor Microenvironment and Bladder Cancer Metastasis

After receiving his Ph.D. degree in the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of National Cheng Kung University in July, 2013, Dr. Lee, Yu-Cheng started his post-doctoral research in Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, USA, focusing on the relation between Extracellular Matrix (ECM) and metastatic bladder cancer as well as the construction of patient-derived xenograft […]

[ISSUE CoM]Academic Presentation by Prof. Xu-Jun Peng: Research on Brain Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging of Epilepsy and Ischemic Stroke

Prof. Syu-Jyun Peng was employed by Taipei Medical University (TMU) in 2019 as a full-time assistant professor in the Professional Master Program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of the College of Medicine. Peng’s main research outcomes for the year 2020 involve the following: callosotomy, as a vital surgical treatment for children with refractory epilepsy, the […]

[ISSUE CoM]Three Universities, Two Teams, One Summer – It’s All About Learning, Laughing and Living

By Chih-Ning Chen, Geng-Hao Bai, Che-Hao Tseng, and Yao-An Shen March 15, 2020 Preface of “Magpie Bridge” The summer of 2019 has been a very exciting moment for twelve medical students from Taipei Medical University (TMU). Their new journey has landed on Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University (JHU), two most prestigious universities in the world, […]

[ISSUE CoM] Telehealth might help to resolve the unmet needs for sleep medicine

TAIWAN – A sold-out crowd filled the Taipei Medical University auditorium to hear about the latest innovations in the world of sleep medicine and telehealth technology. The 2019 TMU-UPenn Joint Symposium of TeleHealth in Sleep Medicine presented by Research Center of Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University and the University of Pennsylvania attracted […]

[ISSUE CoM] The Nerve Excitability Laboratory in TMU, Hosted International Nerve Excitability Symposium

In Taiwan, Prof. Jia-Ying Sung has established the nerve excitability laboratory in TMU faculty for near 10 years and the mechanisms of diseases affecting peripheral nerves, such as diabetic polyneuropathy, acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, cervical radiculopathy, and nitrous oxide abuse, has been studied. Those study results have been published in international peer-reviewed journals. […]

[ISSUE CoM] TMU Thoracic Medicine Extends International Academic Communication to Europe

Following successful organization of Asia-Pacific regional forum on Respiratory Medicine in the past 2 years, TMU Research Center for Thoracic Medicine extended its international academic communication to Europe and held the 2018 symposium on Dec 1, 2018. Three professors from Imperial College London, UK, were invited to give talks on airways diseases. Scholars from TMU […]