2024-05-182024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/714809The institute was established in 1992. In light of the increasing importance of collaboration with clinical medicine, our headquarter and laboratory spaces are located at the second floor of the university hospital. Our faculty is currently comprised of 7 full-time staff and 7 adjunct teachers from Academia Sinica. The research fields of our staff are quite diverse including signaling of cells, protein-protein interactions, modulation of protein synthesis, cytokine regulation and molecular mechanism of autoimmunity. In addition, we keep intimate research collaboration with medical doctors from our teaching hospital in genetic diseases, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases…etc. Our research achievements gain many excellence awards annually from National Science Council, ROC. One of our member even won the 〝Academic Award〞 from the Ministry of Education in 1998, that is the supreme honor in the scientic field of this country. Our teaching program is also plentiful. Aside from the regular courses of Master and PhD programs, we offered the Master course since 1999 for the part-timers who are interested in the molecular biology. Unfortunately, we have ceased the program because of shortage of teaching staff. Under the supervision of Medical College, we began to offer an integrated course for 〝Genomic Medicine〞since 2000 for promoting the main stream education and research in 21th century in collaboration with Medical School, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Institute of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology. 〝Genetic Counseling〞is an another hot topic in the pre-clinical medicine. We have hosted the Master program for it in 2003 academic year in conjunction with Department of OBS/GYN and Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Department of Nursing and Department of Medical Genetics, National Taiwan University Hospital for promoting the progression of genetic counseling domestically. We anticipate to recruit more staffs in the field of molecular genetics, genomic medicine and bioinformatics to enforce our research manpower. We also expect the intramural cooperation will be more intimate with other academic disciplines including both basic and clinical scientists.分子醫學研究所於1992年奉准成立，是一個跨科系的研究單位，我們的主要研究方向是有關生物醫學領域之分子機轉的研究，包括基因與蛋白質的調控、形態發生的分子機轉、訊息傳遞和細胞生長的關係，以及癌症和遺傳疾病等方面的問題。因此，希望藉由整合分子生物學、生理學、生物化學、遺傳學、免疫學，及結構生物學等領域的知識進行基礎生物及醫學研究，進而解決生命科學及臨床醫學上的問題。 學制及課程規劃 本所設有博士班與碩士班，目的是在於訓練學生對於科學問題，不僅能有全方位的邏輯思考，還能對特定重要的生物醫學問題做深度的探討，以培養具有獨立研究能力的科學人才。因此，修業課程除了必修的論文研究、專題討論、分子生物學與實驗外，為了增進學生科學英語能力，分子生物學及期刊論文討論課程均全程用英語教學，並鼓勵學生修習醫學院其他系所開的課程，如酵素動力學、免疫學和臨床醫學概論等。 為配合教育部所倡議的終生學習及落實高等教育迴流體系，本所自2003年招收在職進修碩士專班，以提供在職人員進修分子生物學及分子醫學的管道，主修遺傳諮詢，提供目前從事諮詢員工作的人之再進修管道，或使有意從事遺傳諮詢的人，能從基礎分子生物學、基因體醫學、諮商理論技巧，獲得豐富相關教育，除基礎課程以外，亦安排醫院門診實習及實驗室實習，在總實習時數300小時以上的紮實訓練下，學生未來得以專業角色提供諮詢者所需的服務，進而提昇國內醫療服務品質。 未來展望 1. 加強與臨床醫學跨領域教學與研究合作。 2. 成為台灣頂尖及世界一流的分子醫學研究教學單位。Academic Institute