Director Fu-Tong Liu, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, is going to the United States for academic affairs from September 25 to October 19, 2010. During his absence, Deputy Director Cathy S.-J. Fann is the acting director.

　　DirectorTao-Shih Hsieh, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, is going to the United States for academic affairs from September 29 to October 14, 2010. During his absence, Deputy Director Pung-Pung Hwang is the acting director.