Around the world, Taiwan, with its own Taiwan yew, is the greatest potential competitor to Taxol. Yuen Foong Yu took personnel from the Development Center for Biotechnology at Chiao Tung University and the Union Chemical Laboratories at the Industrial Research Institute and was aggressively working to develop the commercial value of the Taiwan yew.
而環顧全球，台灣工研院化工所及生技中心等研發機構，自台灣特產的紅豆杉葉中萃取的「紅豆杉醇」，是最有可能對「汰癌勝」造成競爭威脅的。永豐公司從生技中心大舉挖角，又積極開發紅豆杉醇的商業價值，結果引起必治妥的戒心而被抓到小辮子。