The Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, granted the National Agricultural Science Award, a topmost national prize, to the team of the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center of the Academia Sinica, including Wen-Chin Yang, Yu-Chuan Liang, and Tien-Fen Kuo. This award was used to recognize its contribution to the research into the emerging functional crops for human and animal health. The achievements of this team involve one nutraceuticals/medicine against diabetes, one medicine against cancer, one phytogenic for poultry coccidiosis, and one phytogenics for livestock diarrhea. All four innovations relates to the prevention and treatment of human diseases and animal infectious diseases. This team has helped the licensees to commercialize three products on the market, abroad and internationally, in an attempt to upgrade agriculture and biotechnology in Taiwan.

A group photo was taken after Dr Wen-Chin Yang (leftmost), Research Fellow of ABRC, Academia Sinica, received his award from the Premier of the Executive Yuan (left third).