Taiwan, Canada extend technology cooperation

ROC Representative to Canada Liu Chih-kung (left), John R. McDougall, president of the NRCC (center), and NSC Minister Cyrus C.Y. Chu beam as they show off the memorandum extending bilateral science and technology cooperation. (CNA) Publication Date：09/07/2012 Source： Taiwan Today Liu Chih-kung, ROC representative to Canada, and the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei inked a memorandum of understanding Sept. 7 to extend cooperation on science and technology for five years. The signing came on the 15th anniversary of the beginning of such collaboration, and was witnessed by ROC National Science Council Minister Cyrus C.Y. Chu and John R. McDougall, president of the National Research Council of Canada. Liu said that over the past decade and a half, the two sides have worked jointly through academic and research organizations in many fields, including bio-optics, nanotechnology and biological products. On the same occasion, Chu, McDougall and Sean S.H. Wang, head of ITRI International Inc., a subsidiary of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, announced that the two countries have launched a joint project on vaccines and biopharmaceuticals to combat hospital-acquired infections.The goal of the project is to complete development of a preventive vaccine within three years and begin preliminary clinical trials within five years, they said. (SB-THN)