Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch was inaugurated on May 8, 2005. Under the collective support of Master Cheng Yen and global Tzu Chi volunteers, Tzu Chi built the first quakeproof hospital in Taiwan and well-known around the world. With the state-of-the-art, our hospital is designed to withstand the destructive forces of earthquake for thousand years. It is not only a new milestone for Tzu Chi medicine mission, but also a new ideal for humanistic medicine in the medical field of Taiwan. In the congested and chaotic medical environment, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch is an oasis of spirit brimming with tranquility, humanism and harmony.
The Core Laboratory of the Research Department in Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch approved Biobank for ministry of health and welfare in May 2018, and encourages the promotion of specimen collecting actively. By the end of 2021, it has accumulated more than 1606 cases and 17,227 tubes human specimens. Mainly cases the cancer tissue specimen and blood, and promotes the specimen collecting of health checkups in the preventive medicine center, and reserves the research energy of the big data database.
Our Biobank has published research results in Journal in 2021. Well will continue to promote specimen collecting and personal precision medicine and cancer research. In the future, we have established stable cooperation with national biobank consortium of Taiwan platform to achieve scientific research goals