Academia Sinica

Neuroscience Program of Academia Sinica (NPAS) is an on-campus research program that promotes interaction and collaboration with the goal of excellence in neuroscience research and education at international levels. NPAS encompasses approximately 40 faculty members from 8 institutes and 2 research centers on the campus. Our researches cover neuronal development, synaptic plasticity, sensory perception, neurological disorders and diseases, stem cell regeneration, systemic and computational neuroscience. Despite broad spectrum of research areas, atmosphere in Academia Sinica is ideal for promoting thriving collaborations.

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National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) is a leading medical university in Taiwan and has a long history of cross-disciplinary brain research. NYCU- Brain Research Center (BRC) is a nationally renowned research center in Taiwan under the support of the Aim for the Top University Grant. Currently, the NYCU-BRC is made up of more than 60 laboratories and is organized into four distinct yet complementary research areas: (1) Basic Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, (3) Clinical Neuroscience, and (4) Biomedical Technologies.

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National Cheng Kung University

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) is a research-oriented international top-tier university. NCKU occupies a total of more than 180 hectares of land, is a comprehensive university with 9 colleges: Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Bioscience & Biotechnology and Medicine. All the colleges are within a walking distance on the main campus, allowing students to take interdisciplinary courses easily. There are more than one thousand faculty members and more than twenty thousand students at NCKU. At NCKU, students who major in science have a literary taste and students who major in liberal arts have science knowledge. On the base of the College of Medicine and the affiliated hospital, NCKU will offer an open learning environment for students of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (INS) graduate program to bridge the gap between the explosion of knowledge in neuroscience and conceptually novel treatments for brain disorders.

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National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University is one of the top research universities in Taiwan. Now, the university has 11 colleges, with 54 departments and 103 graduate institutes. We have more than 2000 faculties, 17000 undergraduate students and 15000 graduate students. The neuroscience is one of the main research groups in the NTU. The cross-departmental Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Program has more than 100 faculties from 10 different colleges and covered broad range of research topics including basic and clinical research with multidisciplinary integration. The main campus and medical campus, including the affiliated tertiary medical center, locates at the heart of Taipei city, which provide easy access to city lifestyle for both on-campus and off-campus activities.

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National Central University

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) at National Central University (NCU), founded in 2003, is the first graduate institute in Taiwan dedicated to the interdisciplinary research on human cognition and its neuroanatomical mechanisms in the brain. Located in one of the leading universities in Taiwan with rich scientific and humanistic facilities, the ICN at NCU is devoted to academic excellence by education and research with cutting-edge technologies including neuroimaging tools (e.g., MRI, MEG/EEG, TMS/tDCS) and advanced experimental/ computational methods. Research at the ICN mainly focuses on neurolinguistics, visual attention and executive functions, human memory, action control, auditory perception, biomedical signal processing, and translational clinical neuroscience. The ICN has strong links with internationally renowned scholars and institutions through active collaborations and research exchanges.

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