WCIT 2000 had barely ended when US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair jointly announced completion of the Human Genome Project, an important part of which was carried out here in Taiwan by a team from Veteran's General Hospital and Yang-Ming University.
不久，美國柯林頓總統與英國布萊爾首相發表聲明，跨國「人類基因體計畫」研究完成草圖，而台灣的「榮陽團隊」也是參與該計畫的功臣之一，並早在一個月前便已順利完成所分配的第四號染色體的基因排序。