ITRI honored with eight accolades at R&D 100 Awards ceremony

2023-11-20

The R&D 100 Awards, known as the Oscars of Innovation, celebrated its winners last week at a San Diego ceremony. The Industrial Technology Research Institute, or ITRI, was honored with eight awards, outshining major research organizations including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Siemens Healthineers.

Flick, scroll, swipe. Whether for work or entertainment, mobile devices are now integral to daily life. As prolonged screen time strains the eyes, conditions like glaucoma are on the rise. In response, medical experts have developed a novel targeted therapy for glaucoma. It uses a compound that targets two protein kinases to lower intraocular pressure.

Lu Jui-mei
ITRI biomedical technology and device research lab
We used two innovative targets, one called ROCK and the other called MYLK-4. This form of dual targeting to treat intraocular pressure is very unique.

Besides glaucoma, aging populations can also be plagued by retinal degeneration. Experts pioneered eye drops that use molecular-level carriers to deliver medication to the posterior eyeball, replacing invasive injections. This new treatment reduces the risk of infection and the need for frequent hospital visits. The breakthrough has won international recognition.

Paul Heney
R&D World editorial director
I would say that one of the keys that I’ve seen is many of the products being submitted and winning, are not just gradual evolutions, but real innovative breakthroughs. So that’s something that the judges pick up on.

Edwin Liu
ITRI president
Only 28 awards were conferred outside of the U.S., and Taiwan won 12 of them. Of these 12, we at ITRI won eight. I think that this is truly an outstanding performance. We’re also very happy that all of our winning technologies have already made industry connections.

Dubbed the Oscars of Innovation, the R&D 100 Awards conferred 12 awards to Taiwan this year. Supported by the economics ministry’s Department of Industrial Technology and Ministry of Digital Affairs, ITRI secured eight of those awards, setting a new record. Its winning technologies include net-zero solutions and biomedical innovations. They have already been turned into industry applications, underscoring ITRI’s mission to research for the benefit of society.

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全球百大科技研發獎工研院奪8大獎創史上新高

2023-11-20

有研發界奧斯卡獎之稱的全球百大科技研發獎，在16號舉辦頒獎典禮，工研院今年勇奪8項大獎，超越麻省理工林肯實驗室、西門子醫療設備學院、NASA研究中心等國際領導機構及大廠，在國際舞台大放異彩。

滑滑滑，工作、追劇還是打電動，現代人手機常常不離身，過度依賴3C產品，也讓不少民眾，眼睛健康拉警報，青光眼找上門。好在現在醫界研發出新的標靶藥物，一個分子可以同時作用在兩個標的上，能有效治療高眼壓。

[[生醫所副所長呂瑞梅]]
“利用一個很創新的標靶，一個叫ROCK 另一個是MYLK-4，這個雙標靶，在治療高眼壓的新藥上面是非常的特別”

除了青光眼，長輩們常有代謝問題，造成視網膜病變，這次廠商也開發出，超分子級的眼滴劑，能把藥物有效帶到「黃斑部」的位置，取代一般要用打針，侵入性的治療方式，長期給藥，也不用擔心會有感染的問題，靠著這樣突破性的技術，成功受到全球矚目！

[[R&D World副總暨總編保羅希尼]]
“我認為獲獎的關鍵不只是推陳出新，而是真正的創新突破，吸引了評審的注意”

[[工研院院長劉文雄]]
“美國之外的得獎只有28個，那台灣就拿了12個。在這12個裡面，我們工研院就拿了8個，我想這是非常優異的表現，那也很開心，這次所有得獎(技術)，跟產業界都已經有做鏈結”

有研發界奧斯卡獎之稱的"全球百大科技研發獎"，今年台灣總共奪下12項殊榮，其中工研院在經濟部產業技術司，及數位發展部的補助下，一口氣拿下八個獎項，創史上新高！獲獎技術涵蓋淨零永續，以及健康樂活兩大重要主題，並已經與產業界鏈結，讓前瞻技術走入市場，造福人群。

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