Taiwan Today
Date: June 8, 2016
Taiwan sent a large delegation to BIO International Convention June 6-9 at Moscone Center in San
Pharmaceutical company staffers help keep a production line in full swing at Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park in southern Taiwan. (Staff Photo/Huang Chung-hsin)
Francisco to showcase the President Tsai Ing-wen administration’s determination to promote Taiwan’s biomedical industry and its links to the world.
Hosted by U.S.-based Biotechnology Innovation Organization, the convention is the largest event of its kind for the global biomedical industry, attracting around 15,000 attendees comprising business representatives, CEOs, key policymakers and scientists from over 60 countries and territories.
Taiwan’s delegation, led by Minister without Portfolio Wu Tsung-tsong, consisted of over 100 members from different government departments and agencies, including the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Health and Welfare, and Science and Technology, as well as the Council of Agriculture, Development Center for Biotechnology, Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry and Development Center and incubation centers from several universities.
At the convention news conference in San Francisco, Wu said as one of the major parts of the five innovative industries set for promotion by the government, the biomedical industry has already received lots of resources and manpower in recent decades. “Now it is at the stage of taking off,” he said, adding that the biomedical industry has to do a little more, especially in the area of developing new medicines. [FULL STORY]
