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Tunghai University-News-News-Chemistry and Chemical & Materials Engineering Students Win Creative Maker Award
Chemistry and Chemical & Materials Engineering Students Win Creative Maker Award
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- Date : 2021-01-13
Racclean Biotech, a startup team formed by two graduate students of Tunghai Chemistry Department and one of Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, won the 2021 Creative Maker Award granted by FITI (From IP To IPO) Program supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The team became one of the top 10 teams out of a total of 300 participating teams. During a 6-month training process, Racclean Biotech made impressive progress and was finally awarded the "Entrepreneurship Potential Award".
Racclean Biotech is a startup team formed by Tunghai University
Racclean Biotech is a start-up team incubated by Tunghai’s “Biomedical Industry and New Agriculture Cross-Field Talent Cultivation Program” supported by the Ministry of Education (MoE). It utilizes academic knowledge and campus resources to develop functional peptide antibacterial products such as "Metide peptide antibacterial protective liquid" and other antibacterial products with Babetide antibacterial peptides. During their student years, the team had earned various innovation entrepreneur awards in 2016 and 2019, and has been granted innovation research funding from the MoE for three years.
Metide peptide antibacterial protective liquid
Mr. Bing-Chien Lee, one of the founders, said that the learning experience at Tunghai and the encouragement from the teachers to join various competition have laid a sound foundation for their startup endeavor.
Racclean Biotech wins "Entrepreneurship Potential Award"
The “Biomedical Industry and New Agriculture Cross-Field Talent Cultivation Program” funded by the MoE, with the support of the Innovation and Entrepreneur Center, has enabled Tunghai University to produce many young award-winning teams as well as successful commercial operation startups. The program Director, Prof. Ye-Song Gu, said that with a campus full of resources such as Tunghai, more successful teams like Racclean would emerge.