Teaching Equipment

The floor space of our department is around 4,500 square meters, including the department office, conference rooms, teaching laboratory, biosafety level 2 plus laboratory, core facilities, cold rooms, and many research laboratories. Each research laboratory occupies around 150 square meters. Since medical technology education is one of the major aims for the department, a well-equipped teaching laboratory has also been established in the department.

Because the education in the department is emphasized on independent experimental skills for each student, the number and variety of devices and instruments are well-prepared. For examples, the number of microscopes and micropipets should be enough for each student. Therefore, every student should be able to perform the experiments independently. Besides, the students can observe or handle the newest equipment for modern biotechnology in the course of medical technology research. All of the efforts ensure that the students in the department are well-educated and -trained for the professional knowledge and techniques in modern medical biotechnology that support their future careers.

The equipment in the department is usually supported by the university. Since 2001, the department was also funded by the special projects from the Ministry of Education of ROC government, including the professional personnel education project in medical technology, the pioneer personnel in molecular diagnosis project, and the special project for stem cell and tissue engineering research.

The core facilities in the department that support the researches in molecular medical technology, prevention medicine, cancer biology, development of medical devices, and infectious diseases are well-equipped by the following instruments: