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                                          | Global COE
                                          Seminar“Current and Future Medical
                                          Research on Chernobyl” |  |  |  
 
 
                                  
                                    | On July 7, 2008, Global COE Seminar entitled “Current
                                    and Future Medical Research on Chernobyl” was
                                    held at Research Centre for Radiation Medicine,
                                    Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in
                                    Kiev. The aim of the seminar was to report
                                    the outstanding results of collaboration
                                    studies between Nagasaki University and relevant
                                    research institutions in Ukraine, and to
                                    discuss the future direction of collaboration.
                                    From Nagasaki, Professor Shigeru Kohno, Dean
                                    of Nagasaki University School of Medicine,
                                    Professor Shunichi Yamashita, Project Leader
                                    of Global COE Project, and Professor Noboru
                                    Takamura, Global COE Member participated
                                    in this seminar. Also from Ukraine, Professors
                                    Bebeshko and Korol (Research Centre for Radiation
                                    Medicine), Professor Tronko and Bogdanova
                                    (Research Institute for Endocrinology and
                                    Metabolis) participated in this seminar,
                                    and presented their research activities. Furthermore, Mr Mutsuo Mabuchi, Ambassador
                                   of Japanese Embassy in Ukraine also participated
                                   in this seminar, in order to make opening
                                   remarks. It is scheduled to have seminars
                                   and symposiums in each country where we are
                                   developing collaboration studies within a
                                   framework of our Global COE project.
 
 
 
                                        
                                          | Noboru Takamura,
                                          Department of Radiation Epidemiology |  |  
 
                                  
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