Established in 1960, over the past century, Taipei Medical University underwent the process of continuous expansion, transformation and innovation. Today, TMU has expanded into a world-class university with 11 Colleges and 1 General Education Center, 6000 students per year, 47,000 alumni around Medical Academic Institute, Medical Industry and six affiliated hospitals which are TMU hospital, Wan Fang Hospital, Shuang Ho Hospital, Hsin Kuo Min Hospital, Tapei Cancer Center and Taipei Neuroscience Institute.
Based on the core value of humanistic empathy, honesty and integrity, innovation, teamwork and social service, TMU is dedicated to excellent teaching, outstanding research, industry-academia collaboration, international participation and social service, in order to integrate clinical resource of affiliated hospitals and meet the visions of translation medicine innovation, biomedical industry development, research advancement and positive social influence. 3 main strategies of future development are below.
(1) Education: As a pioneer university to establish the college of interdisciplinary study, TMU build interdisciplinary learning environment and conduct ability-oriented learning process, in order to cultivate biomedical talents with broad knowledge.
(2) Industry-Academy: TMU has established 21 startup companies which include the field of cancer drug development, precision medicine, biotechnology, artificial intelligence application in medicine and healthy food.
(3) Medical service: With vertical integration from medical center to community clinic, 6 affiliated hospitals continuously improve quality to provide excellent medical service and enhance clinical strengths. Also, we make an effort to introduce the information technology and innovation application in hospitals and link relative industry as well.