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The clock tower at the South Gate of Fujita Health University is one of the oldest buildings. Or is it? Find out more about this part of our University.

This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Prof. Luigi Zecca, MD, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies – National Research Council (CNR), Milan, Italy. He will give a presentation at Fujita Health University.

On Friday, October 29, Prof. Jim Kaufman gave a presentation at Fujita Health University. He discussed major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and his finding that disease resistance associated MHC polymorphism importantly concerns “generalist” alleles that present a large variety of peptides versus “specialist” alleles with a narrow peptide repertoire.

Earlier this year, the beautiful article Remembering Keisuke Fujita, M.D., Ph.D., President and Founder of Fujita Health University, and his contributions to medical science and education was published in Fujita Medical Journal, written by his member of staff and long-term friend, Prof. Toshiharu Nagatsu of Fujita Health University. Maybe some Read more…

This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Prof. Dr. Jim Kaufman, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Visiting Researcher of the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK. He will give a presentation at Fujita Health University.

On Friday, September 24, Dr. Akihiko Nishikimi gave a presentation at Fujita Health University. He introduced the Research Institute at the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (in Obu, not far from Fujita) and also, briefly, his own ongoing work on drug discovery for immunosenescence.

Science Portrait: Dr. Akihiko Nishikimi
This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Dr. Akihiko Nishikimi, Chief of Biosafety Division, Research Institute, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi-ken. He will give a presentation at Fujita Health University.

On Friday, August 27, Prof. David B. Alexander gave a presentation to the Journal Club of the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science (ICMS) and discussed a paper by Dr. Rajeswari Jayavaradhan and co-workers. This paper describes that if Cas9 is coupled with a dominant negative form of 53BP1 this improves the ratio of homology directed repair (HDR) versus non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) at the Cas9 target site.

This is a summary of the curriculum vitae (CV) of Prof. Dr. David B. Alexander, Nanotoxicology Project, Nagoya City University. He will give a presentation at the ICMS institute of Fujita Health University.

On Friday, July 30, Dr. Funahashi gave a presentation to the Journal Club of the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science (ICMS) and discussed two of his recent papers. He showed that dopamine signaling in the central brain leads to transcription factor activation and that this is important for reward learning.