Academia Sinica
| 中央研究院 (Chinese) | |
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| Formed | 1928 (in Nanjing) 1949 (in Taipei, Taiwan) |
| Headquarters | Nangang, Taipei 25°2′45″N 121°36′37″E / 25.04583°N 121.61028°E |
| Employees | ~5,800 (incl. 976 principal investigators, 111 research specialists, 775 post-docs, 2,150 students) |
| Annual budget | 12.5 billion NTD ($400 million) (2020) |
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| Parent agency | Office of the President |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 中央研究院 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中央研究院 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中央研究院 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Central Research Academy" | ||||||||||||||||||
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Academia Sinica (AS, Latin: Academia Sinica; Chinese: 中央研究院) is the national academy of the Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang, Taipei.
Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathematics, physical sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences. As an educational institute, it provides PhD training and scholarship through its English-language Taiwan International Graduate Program in biology, agriculture, chemistry, physics, informatics, and earth and environmental sciences.
The current president since 2016 is James C. Liao, an expert in metabolic engineering, systems biology and synthetic biology.