Taiwan Foreign Trade Office and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) in collaboration with Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) and Thai Medical Device Technology Industry Association (THAIMED) organized a seminar and business negotiation event, "Thailand-Taiwan Smart Healthcare Seminar & Trade Meeting 2019", on 20 September 2019 at Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit to present Smart Healthcare products, modern medical technology and innovation to initiate the business matching the two countries.

As the year 2019 drew to a close, Linchpin SEO as an American agency specializing in marketing and business analytics and Tulip.co website as a platform to publish marketing information for businesses and industries have published important trends in pharmaceutical industry in 2020. 

The Division of Entrepreneurs and New Business Promotion, which is under the Department of Industrial Promotion, organized Research Connect Fair on September 3^rd, 2019, at the Berkeley Hotel to promote commercialization of new research-based products.

The US FDA has approved Novartis to supply a gene therapy called Zolgensma, for treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

The US Food and Drug Administration announced the global launch of the application CURE ID for the clinical community to share their experiences in treating rare diseases

The FDA has warned manufacturers of medical devices connectable to the internet and using old software named IPnet, that they are at risk of data theft.

A group of Chinese scientists from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of North Carolina in the US have successfully transplanted human brain genes into rhesus monkeys.

Since selecting cosmetics appropriate to bodily conditions, such as skin colour, chemical allergy, is an important factor to which consumers pay attention, cosmetics producers have developed a variety of products to meet each customer’s need.
 

Health Service Support Center, of the Department of Health Service Support (HSS), successfully designed and created Thailand’s first robotic-assisted gait training, or a robot which assists in the recovery of children with cerebral palsy, limbs weakness, and movement disabilities. This robot helps children with cerebral palsy and patients with a spinal cord injury to better balance their bodies while standing and improve their mobility. In addition, the robot can help train patients with neurological diseases—such as stroke and spinal cord injury—and children with cerebral palsy to have an accelerated recovery than when they receive only physical therapy.

A Spanish research team, led by Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a researcher at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), in collaboration with the Salk Institute in the US, conducted experiments which created cross-species organisms called chimeras, which have both human and animal DNAs. In this experiment, human stem cells were injected into the embryo or the fetus of genetically modified monkeys. Human stem cells later stimulated genes that played an essential role in organ formation. While the experiment should produce monkeys with human cells, the researchers later terminated the birth of the chimeras. The actual goal of the experiment was to find a way to treat rare human diseases by transplating organs from such chimeras into human patients.