TANIDA held The Role of Nanotechnology in the Post-Pandemic Era Workshop

Facing post-pandemic era, how COVID-19 has affected such as health care, psycho-social, economic and educational, among others? What is the role of nanotechnology? The workshop organized by Taiwan Nanotechnology Industry Development Association (TANIDA) was held on 10 December 2020 at National Taiwan University in Taipei. Speakers including President Kung-Yee Liang (梁賡義) of National Health Research Institutes, Dr. Gary Wang (王崇智), CEO at Taiwan Accelerator Plus, Prof. Jiang-Jen Lin (林江珍), Honorary Professor at National Taiwan University, and Dr. Yin-Liang Tang (湯尹良) from Eternal Materials Co., Ltd, are invited to give presentations about the impacts on public health and responses, trend of entrepreneurship, applications of nanomaterials, and industrial progress with the rapid test reagent. There were about 80 domestic participants from academia and industry in this workshop. TANIDA was founded in 2004 and aims to facilitate the integration of R&D efforts at universities, research institutions and industry to accelerate the commercialization of nanotechnology and to meet industries' needs of developing high valued-added products and technology. Dr. Ting-Kuo Lee, current President of ANF, was elected the Chairman at the 2018 TANIDA Plenary Meeting in October 2018. In early 2017 Taiwan’s nanoMark established in 2003, also the world’s first nano-product certification system, was transferred to TANIDA for the professional and independent functionality after 14-year operation under the auspices of the government.