Organisation profile

Newly established in 2010, the College of Medical Science and Technology (CoMST) is the youngest college of the Taipei Medical University. Seeking to become the most internationalized and research-oriented college of its kind, the College of Medical Science and Technology has established five institutes: the School of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, the Institute of Cancer Research and Drug Discovery, the Institute of Neuro-regenerative Medicine, and the Institute of Translational Medicine.

The college focuses on the translation of information and communication technology (ICT), biotechnology, biomedical engineering and biomedical informatics into clinical and health care uses. It has been renowned by its advanced applications of ICT to its three teaching hospitals in the past 15 years, partly due to the creation of the Graduate Institute of BioMedical Informatics (GIMI) in 1998. GIMI is the first graduate program of its kind in South-East Asia and it has since then built its reputation worldwide.