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On the top of Futamurayama, only one minute walking from the Assembly Hall at Fujita Health University, the cherry blossom (sakura) is now in full bloom.

This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Prof. Eleonora Leucci, PhD, Laboratory for RNA Cancer Biology, KU (Katholieke Universiteit) Leuven, Belgium, and Head of TRACE (KU Leuven PDX platform). She will give a presentation at Fujita Health University.

On Friday, February 25, Prof. Hans Clevers gave a presentation at Fujita Health University. He talked about how he and his group developed organoids from adult stem cells and how they can be used to research human diseases.

This time of year is plum blossom season in Japan. Close to Fujita Hall 2000 there is a farm where there is a plum orchard which is beautifully blossoming right now. They must also have orange trees as they are now selling oranges.

Having Strawberry Farm Shizuku next to Fujita Health University enables us to eat delicious fresh strawberries.

This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Prof. Hans (J.C.) Clevers, MD, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics at Utrecht University, Principal Investigator at the Hubrecht Institute and the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology and Oncode Investigator, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. From March 2022: Head of Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED).

On Friday, January 28, Dr. Wolfgang W. Leitner gave a presentation at Fujita Health University. He told about the organization of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US, and how we, as foreign researchers, might apply for its grants. He also told about the Vaccine Adjuvant Program of which he is in charge.

The research group led by Emeritus Professor Keiichiro Hashimoto published a landmark study on the evolution of the immune system in the journal PNAS.

This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Dr. Wolfgang W. Leitner, Chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH), USA. He will give a presentation at Fujita Health University.

On Friday, November 26, Prof. Luigi Zecca gave a presentation at Fujita Health University. He presented a review on neuromelanin research and his groundbreaking discoveries in this field. The presentation, which we recorded, has a great didactic quality and probably is understandable from the level of graduate students.