After more than five years implementing the state-level research project entitled "Exploitation and development of Dioscorea hamiltonii (Chinese yam) and Coix lacryma-jobi (coixseed) genetic resources as raw materials to produce medicine,” on September 30th 2016 Traphaco’s pharmacist Nguyen Thi Van Anh, who chaired the research, successfully defendede the project in front of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s State-level Genetic Fund Assessment Council.