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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and Osaka collaborate

13 June 2006

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed in June 2006 by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's President and Provost, Professor Malcolm Grant, and Osaka's Mayor, Junichi Seki, with respect to collaboration between Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and Osaka City University (OCU).

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The MOU recognizes the significant scholarly exchange already underway between the two universities in the areas of vision science, cognitive neuroscience and anatomy, and paves the way for enhanced interactions in these specific areas. The MOU details future efforts to enhance scholarly exchange between the two universities in the form of research collaborations and exchange of students and academic staff.

This interaction stems from a meeting between Mayor Seki and Professor Grant two years ago, where the two discussed how to form global links between universities in Osaka and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê. Since that time Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê has now completed MOUs with both Osaka University and OCU, two leading universities in the Kansai region of Japan.Ìý

In November 2005 the first joint forum between Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and OCU was held in Osaka. Around 300 people, including government officials, CEOs and other senior management from pharmaceutical companies, attended the event. Professor Santa Ono (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Ophthalmology) and Professor Semir Zeki (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Anatomy & Developmental Biology) spoke at this forum, together with other scientists from OCU. This forum was followed by visits by OCU professors Yasuyoshi Watanabe and Hiroshi Kiyama to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê.

The significant interactions between Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and these institutions further cements the long history of interaction between Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and Japan, including the education of two Japanese Prime Ministers at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê (Hirobumi Ito and Junichiro Koizumi) and corporate interactions with Eisai Pharmaceuticals and Hamamatsu Photonics. Ìý

To find out more about Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's links with Japan, use the link at the bottom of this article.

Image: Osaka's Mayor, Junichi Seki and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê President and Provost, Professor Malcolm Grant


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