International Partnerships (MoU)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Photonics Advanced Research Center of Osaka University, Japan

Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Research Center for Applied Sciences (RCAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan

A list of the international cooperative research projects from 2011 to 2013:

•Study skin whitening effect of different cosmetic ingredients in Asian women (L'Oreal Paris, France)

•Lead an international research team for digital library research

•Fiber laser with a high power and a short pulse (DESY CFEL, Germany/ Prof. Franz X. Kärtner)

•Nanoultrasonic imaging of interfacial water molecules (Université du Maine, France/ Prof. Vitali Goussev)

•Develop Raman optical endoscopy (Moscow State University, Russia/ Prof. Andrey Fedotov)

•Image dinosaur fossiles with a high 3D spatial resolution (University of Toronto, Canada/ Prof. Robert Reisz)

•Develop THz hypersonic transducers (MIT, USA/ Prof. Keith A. Nelson)

•Study the sensitivity of Taiwan sea urchin to the toxins in water (Italy/ Prof. Buttino)

•Develop a multi-color femtosecond source for multiple label multiphoton fluorescence microscopy (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA/ Prof. Charles Lin)

•Develop three demsional advanced microscope (MIT  /Professor George Barbastathis；KLA-Tencor/ Dr. SeBaek Oh)

•Targeting N-RAS as a molecular regulator in melanoma tumorigenesis and drug resistance (Baylor College of Medicine, USA/ Prof. Eric Chang,)

•Superresolution optical microscopy (Osaka University, Japan/ Prof. Satoshi Kawata and Katsumasa Fujita)

•Nonlinear chirality of collagen molecules (Tampere University, Finland/ Prof. Martti Kauranen)

•MRI research program (UCSF, USA/ Professor Chung)

•Low field magnetic resonance image (Toyohashi University of Technology/ Saburo Tanaka)

•Improve resolution of reconstructed 3D molecule structure (Harvard University/ Shing-Tung Yau)

•18F-DOPA in gene therapy (Japan/Dr. Shin-ichi Muramatsu ; USA/ Dr. Richard O. Snyder)

•18F–FDG in cortical hearing response of rats (France/ Prof. Huy)

•99m Tc-Glycopeptide (99m Tc-GP) for breast cancer research (USA/ Dr. David Yang)

•R&D of new hepatocellular carcinoma imaging PET probe 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-galactose (UBC, Canada/ Prof. François Bénard)

•Cell engineering and protein engineering technology for cell fate changes (Tokyo University/ Prof. Teruyuki Nagamune)

•Anti-tumor nanoparticles for targeting (Tokyo University/ Prof. Kazunori Kataoka)