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A Joint Symposium between the National Yang Ming University (NYMU) of Taiwan and the University of California, San Diego, will be held at UCSD on April 9-11, 2008. NYMU is one of the four universities that constitute the University System in Taiwan (UST). UST and Academia Sinica in Taiwan signed a Letter of Intent on an Exchange Program with Chancellor Fox on August 15, 2007, to engage in educational and research cooperation in fields to be agreed upon by the participating units at the cooperating institutions. Prior to the signing, NYMU invited ten UCSD faculty to hold the first Bilateral Symposium at NYMU in Taipei, which was very successful.

This Second Joint Symposium to be held at UCSD, as the First one, will focus on biomedical sciences. There will be five sessions ( click on the link to view the schedule ) on Brain and Neuroscience, Stem Cells, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Viral and Cellular Membrane Proteins, and Genomics and Cancer. There will be 24 presentations, with 12 from each university, and the topics have been matched to foster interactions and cross-fertilizations. The speakers from UCSD include faculty members in Departments of Biology, Bioengineering, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Medicine, NanoEngineering, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, and Psychiatry, as well as those with appointments in the Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, San Diego Stem Cell Consortium, and VA Hospital. The meeting is organized by the UCSD Engineering in Medicine Initiative, Department of Bioengineering, and Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

The Symposium will be held in the Fung Auditorium on the first floor of the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall (see map for location), starting at 1 pm on Wednesday, April 9, and ending before noon on Friday, April 11. Because of the limitation of seating space, please register early.

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