Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering

Director

Professor Jyh-Horng Chen, Ph.D.

UC Berkeley

Email:jhchen@ntu.edu.tw

FACULTY

Full-time:25

Part-time: 3

Ph.D. Degree: 26

M.S. Degree: 0

Tel: +886-2-2356-2095

Fax: +886-2-2394-0049

http://bme.ntu.edu.tw

Professors

Jyh-Horng Chen: Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Cheng-Yi Wang: M.D., National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D., Tokyo Woman Medical Univ.

Yung-Zu Tseng: M.D., NTU

Hwa-Chang Liu: M.D., National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D., Univ. of Tokyo

Yuan-Haun Lee: Ph.D., Kyoto Univ.

Kuo-Huang Hsieh: Ph.D., Detroit Univ.

Shuang-Shii Lian: Dr.-Ing., Technische Universitat Berlin

Falin Chen: Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona

Jia-Yush Yen: Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Feng-Huei Lin: Ph.D., Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.

Ching-Chuan Jiang: M.D., Ph.D., NTU

Yi-You Huang: Ph.D., NTU

Tai-Horng Young: Ph.D., NTU

Sheng-Mou Hou: M.D., Ph.D., NTU

Fong-Jou Shieh: M.D., NTU, MSPH, Univ. of Washington

Win-Li Lin: Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona

Chung-Ming Chen: Ph.D., Cornell Univ.

Associate Professors

Jan-Min Wong: M.D., Ph.D., NTU

Liang-Wey Chang: Ph.D., Purdue Univ.

Fu-Shan Jaw: Ph.D., NTU

Chii-Wann Lin: Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ.

Jaw-Lin Wang: Ph.D., Ohio State Univ.

Tung-Wu Lu: Ph.D., Univ. of Oxford

Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng: Ph.D., MIT

Ming-Jium Shieh: M.D., NTU, Ph.D., Tokyo Woman Medical Univ.

Adjunct Professor

Te-Son Kuo: Ph.D. , Georgia Institute of Technology

Adjunct Associate Professor

Shwu-Rong Shieh: Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Adjunct Assistant Professor

I-Jen Chiang: Ph.D., NTU

FACILITIES

The institute has many well equipped laboratiories for graduate research work. Some of them are: biosensor laboratory, bioceramic lab, biopdymer lab, gait-analysis lab, drug delivery system lab, imaging process lab, signal process lab, biomechanics lab, centralt relevant eqeuipments, the instrumental analysis lab, and handicap device center provide service to all our faculty members for their research and teaching needs. The Handicap Devices Center is being sponsored by NSC-ROC, and also accepts industrial membership.

PROGRAMS OF STUDY

Master's Degree Biomedical Engineering        (3)

Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering   (4)

Seminar in Biomedical Engineering           (6)

Anatomical Physiology

(For engineering graduates)                              (3)

ACADEMY-INDUSTRY LINK

The institute has some of research fruit to be transferred to local compamy or industry to promote the biomedical engineeing in Taiwan . Among these, dental restoration, drug delivery system and hemodialysis materials, are the most important.

RESEARCH / DEVELOPMENT

The main mission of the Institute is to promote activities of teaching, research and development in biomedical engineering.  Active research projects are sponsored by various public and private agents, such as, National Science Council, Department of Health, National Health Research Institute, Industrial Technological Research Institute, and National Taiwan University Hospital , etc.  These include researches in following areas:

(1)   Biomaterials: Research fields include metal, ceramics, polymers, biological materials, and drug delivery systems.  The developments of bioactive bone cement, bioglass ceramic and composite resin are applied in orthopedic surgery and dental restoratives. Polymer research is focused on the membrane technology for the improvement of kidney dialysis system. The research of biological materials emphasizes on tissue engineering and its based biomaterials. The applications are artificial pancreas, artificial cartilage, artificial skin, drug delivery mediators, etc. In addition, our researches also cover the application of various biomaterials in artificial organs and in drug deliverly system as well.

(2)   Biomechanical Engineering: Major research projects are related to the design and develop-ment of assistant devices for the disable and elderly people.  The control group is also working on clinical investigation of computer control of anesthesia systems.

(3)   Clinical Engineering: The main goal is to execute and supervise medical care quality and to plan safety and risk of medical equip-ment. We hope to make sure that the use of medical equipment is legitimate.

(4)   Integrated Cardiac-Pulmonary Physiological Monitoring System: The system can connect each medical instrument by using computer. Moreover, on the basis of integrated data, we can set up expert system to assist medical staff.

(5)  Hyperthermia Research: The whole research is divided into five parts: methods of ultra sound heating design, fabrication, and evaluation of ultrasound transducers; control of ultrasound hyperthermia treatments; thermal modeling and treatment planning; clinical trials of ultrasound hyperthermia.

(6)   Optic Card System: the charcteristics of large memory and undeletable are very useful in building the medical data system and controlling insurance expenses.

(7)   Bioelectronics: Analog and Digital circuit design and fabrication through PCB or inte-grated circuit processes.

(8)   Bioinstrumentation: Smart sensor system, Artificial neural networks for nonin-vasive blood glucose monitoring, Electro-physiological system, Auto-matic testing system for cardiac monitor, Ambulatory blood pressure moni-toring system, Body surface mapping system.

(9)   Bioimage: Major research foci are on medical image reconstruction theory, medical image analysis, computer assisted diagnosis and therapeutics, automatic ultrasound image segmen-tation and tissue characterization.

Protein chip & Surface plasmon Resonance System

                            Bio-Nano

        Nano Au Particles                Nano Au fiber sensor

AFM image of 20nm Au particles