UC Davis and Academia Sinica are entering a scientific exchanging programme.
University of California, Davis and Academia Sinica have signed an agreement to enter an educational and scientific exchange. The partnership’s ultimate aim will be to commercialise research.
Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan, welcomed UC Davis’s vice-chancellor Harris Lewin to Taipei on September 12 to sign the agreement. It will be launched formally at a UC Davis – Taiwan Collaboration Symposium to be held later this year.
As part of the agreement, a maximum of four postdoctoral faculty and graduate students from the academy will have the opportunity to conduct research at UC Davis for two years. Initially, this research will focus on human health, microbiome research and agriculture.
The partnership will also establish a platform for commercialisation of research conducted at either or both institutions, as part of which UC Davis and Academia Sinica hope to work out the intricacies of intellectual property.
Harris Lewin, vice-chancellor at UC Davis, said: “Our new agreement with Academia Sinica builds significantly on the long and historic relationship between our two institutions. We look forward to jointly training outstanding graduate students from Taiwan and hosting highly qualified postdoctoral fellows to work on collaborative projects.”