Natural products have always been an important source of drug development. It would be of tremendous benefit to the health sciences if these treasures from nature can be studied and examined scientifically. In Graduate Institute of Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, we have excellent professors with more than 30 years of experience in teaching and researching of natural medicine. We integrate professional educators in Chemistry, Pharmacology, Medicine and Molecular Biology to actively seek and develop new research topics.

We actively organize international seminars in Taiwan and encourage our student and stuff to study and attend seminars internationally. We also provide short term study opportunities for international students, and the academic results have been excellent. The quality and quantity of research papers published by our student and staff in the natural medicine field are the highest in Taiwan. Our institute is dedicated to cultivate top-notch talents in development and investigation of herbal medicine; and to develop new generation of natural medicine by integrating pharmacology, functional genetics, proteomics and bioinformatics in natural medicine research.