The Taiwan Report

4. AP RESEARCH IN TAIWAN, R.0.C.

During my visit, I received reprints of their research in AP from medical and vet colleagues. Abstracts of the 1982 International AP Symposium (1982), the Vet AP Seminar (1982) and the National AP Symposium (1979) were also given to me. From these sources, the addresses of the main centres of AP research in Taiwan were compiled. They are:

1. Taipei

 

Chinese AP Research Foundation (Box 84-223). This group attempts to integrate and disseminate the medical and vet AP research in Taiwan. This group produces "AP Research Quarterly", in which some of the current AP research is published.

National Taiwan University, College of Medicine (Depts. Physiology and Neurology).

National Taiwan University Hospital (Depts. Medicine a Physiology).

National Taiwan University, Depts. Animal Husbandry & Zoology.

Yang Ming Medical College (Depts. Anatomy & Microbiology and Institute of Neuroscience).

National Defence Medical Centre (Depts. Physiology, Biophysics and Biomorphics).

National Institute of Preventive Medicine (Dept. Serology).

Academia Sinica (Institute of Physics)

Taipei Medical College (Pain Clinic)

Taipei City Hoping Hospital (Pain Clinic)

Taipei Municipal Drug Addiction Centre

Airforce General Hospital (Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory)

Tri-Service General Hospital (Depts. AP Research & Pathology) VGH (Depts. AP, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology).

 

2. Taichung

China Medical College (AP Research Centre; Institute of Chinese Medical Science and Dept. Physiology)

Chung Shin Hospital (Dept. Urological Surgery)

Veterinary College (Dept. Vet Medicine, and Vet Teaching Hospital)

3. Lungtan Institute of Nuclear Energy Research

4. Hsinchu National Tsing Hua University (Institute of Radiation Biology)

5. Changhua Success Clinic of Chinese Medicine.

I visited the research facilities of Yang Ming Medical College (Taipei), VGH (Taipei) and CMC (Taichung). The equipment in these centres was impressive and modern. It included: electron microscopy; automated scintillation and isotope counters; modern histological processing and microscopy; automated spectroscopy; HPLC apparatus; microcomputer-controlled integrators.

Yang Ming Medical College also had sophisticated multichannel electronic recorders for physiological monitoring; stereotactic surgical equipment and primate/rodent handling facilities for experimentation in pain research.

I was told that Government funding for AP research had been somewhat limited until recently but that increased funding was expected in future, due to (a) positive research results from Taiwanese projects, and (b) a growing awareness of international advances in the field of AP, neurophysiology and neuroendocrinology.

Since 1976, or so, the main areas of AP research in Taiwan can be divided into experimental and clinical research.