NTUBST2023EN-Specialization Program

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Starting from Academic Year 110, students are encouraged to use specialization programs to navigate learning within or beyond their major and to develop expertise as well as versatility for their future career or a higher degree.

Each program generally consists of four to five courses with strong linkage, amounting to 12 to 15 credits. Students with successful completion of the program upon graduation will receive an official certificate; no prior application is required.

Our department offers 8 specialization programs, including:

Protein drugs
Microbial Recombinant Protein Production and Purification
Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy
Infection and Immunity
Big Data Analytics and Applications for Genomic Biomedicine
Sustainable Development of Food and Energy
Nutrition and Health
Metabolic Engineering of Cells and The Biomedical Application

If you want to know more about the specialization programs offered by other departments, you can learn more about them on the NTU Specialization Programs Compass website.

<Protein drugs>

Main Instructor: Feng-Ting Huang (fthuang@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B22 U0590	Protein Chemistry	2.00
2	B02 20110	Biochemistry Lab.	2.00
3	B22 U0180	Introduction to Structural Biology	2.00
4	B22 U0610	Protein Folding, Modification, and Diseases	2.00
5	B22 U0480	Enzymology Laboratory	3.00
6	B22 U0570	Principles of Biochemical Techniques and Biomedical Analysis (Ⅰ)	2.00
	Alternative courses of B22 U0570
	B22 U0540	Principles and Applications of Biochemical Techniques	2.00
This program entails 6 courses, amounting to 13 credits.

<Microbial Recombinant Protein Production and Purification>

Main Instructor: Ching-Tsan Huang (cthuang@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B02 20301	Microbiology (1)	2.00
2	B02 20302	Microbiology (2)	2.00
3	B22 U0200	Molecular Biology	4.00
	Alternative courses of B22 U0200
	424 U1200	Molecular Biology	4.00
	448 M0070	Molecular Biology	4.00
	632 U1120	Molecular Biology	4.00
	B01 31210	Molecular Biology	4.00
	P05 U2010	Molecular Biology	4.00
4	P05 U2020	Biotechnology Core Techniques	4.00
5	B02 41010	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	Alternative courses of B02 41010
	B02 41050	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41110	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
This program entails 5 courses, amounting to 14 credits.

<Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy>

Main Instructor: Edward Chern (edchern@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B22 U0200	Molecular Biology	4.00
	Alternative courses of B22 U0200
	424 U1200	Molecular Biology	4.00
	448 M0070	Molecular Biology	4.00
	632 U1120	Molecular Biology	4.00
	B01 31210	Molecular Biology	4.00
	P05 U2010	Molecular Biology	4.00
2	B22 U0340	Cell Biology	3.00
3	B22 U0410	Frontiers of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine	2.00
4	B21 U2290	Synthetic Biology - Design, Engineering and Evolution	2.00
5	B02 30180	Project Design and Practice in Biochemical Science and Technology(Ⅰ)	2.00
6	B02 30190	Project Design and Practice in Biochemical Science and Technology(Ⅱ)	2.00
This program entails 6 courses, amounting to 15 credits.

<Infection and Immunity>

Main Instructor: Chun-Jen Chen (cjchen1@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B02 20301 B02 20302	Microbiology (1) (2.00) + Microbiology (2) (2.00)	4.00
	Alternative courses of B02 20301 + B02 20302
	603 23100	General Microbiology	3.00
	613 49950	Microbiology	3.00
	B01 33010	Microbiology	3.00
2	B22 U0260	Virology	2.00
3	B22 U0310	Immunology	3.00
	Alternative courses of B22 U0310
	B21 U1230	Immunology	4.00
4	B22 U0330	Applied Immunology	2.00
5	B02 41200	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	Alternative courses of B02 41200
	B02 41090	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41170	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41180	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41190	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41210	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41150	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41220	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41230	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41240	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41250	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41260	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
This program entails 5 courses, amounting to 13 credits.

<Big Data Analytics and Applications for Genomic Biomedicine>

Main Instructor: Edward Chern (edchern@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B22 U0660	Biostatistics	3.00
	Alternative courses of B22 U0660
	B01 34000	Biostatistics	3.00
2	B22 U0340	Cell Biology	3.00
3	B00 20010	Programming Skills for Life Science	3.00
4	B22 U0680	Cancer Biology	3.00
5	B02 30180	Project Design and Practice in Biochemical Science and Technology(Ⅰ)	2.00
This program entails 5 courses, amounting to 14 credits.

<Sustainable Development of Food and Energy>

Main Instructor: Chun-Jen Chen (cjchen1@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B22 U0200	Molecular Biology	4.00
	Alternative courses of B22 U0200
	B01 31210	Molecular Biology	4.00
	P05 U2010	Molecular Biology	4.00
2	B02 20110	Biochemistry Lab.	2.00
3	B42 U1210	Methods in Plant Molecular Biology Research	2.00
4	B22 M0140	Plant Secondary Metabolism	2.00
5	B02 41010	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	Alternative courses of B02 41010
	B02 41080	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41060	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41070	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
6	B02 41020	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	Alternative courses of B02 41020
	B02 41140	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41120	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41130	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
This program entails 6 courses, amounting to 14 credits.

<Nutrition and Health>

Main Instructor: Fu-Jung Lin (fujlin@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B02 11010	Introduction to Nutrition and Food	2.00
2	B02 301B1	Biochemistry(b) (1)	2.00
3	B02 301B2	Biochemistry (b)(2)	2.00
4	B22 U0110	Nutritional Biochemistry	2.00
5	B02 30100	Nutritional Biochemistry Lab	2.00
6	641 M1470	Molecular Nutrition: genomic, Metabolic and Health Aspects	2.00
7	B02 41010	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	Alternative courses of B02 41010
	B02 41100	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41160	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
	B02 41090	Research Training (Ⅰ)	2.00
	B02 41150	Research Training (Ⅱ)	2.00
This program entails 7 courses, amounting to 14 credits.

Metabolic Engineering of Cells and The Biomedical Application

Main Instructor: Kung-Ta Lee (ktlee@ntu.edu.tw)

Courses of the Program:

no.	Course Number	Course Title	Credits
1	B22 U0340	Cell Biology	3.00
2	B22 M0100	Microbial Physiology	2.00
3	B22 U0380	Biomedical Analysis	3.00
4	B22 U0690	Basic Single-cell RNAseq Data Analysis	3.00
5	B02 U1040	Fundamentals and Frontiers of Biotechnology	3.00
This program entails 5 courses, amounting to 14 credits.