The 2017 Japan-NIH joint Symposium on Advances in Biomedical Research and Disease will be co-hosted by National Institutes of Health (NIH, U.S.A.) and Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine on February 15-17, 2017. This is the 2nd conference to be held in Sendai following the NIH-Tohoku University-JSPS Symposium in May 2013, which was organized by NIH as part of the support for reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake. ToMMo also cooperates in organizing the Symposium.

Dates: February 15-17, 2017
Venue: Seiryo Auditorium, Tohoku University School of Medicine
2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
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Registration Fee: Free

Invited Speakers from NIH:
James Battey (Director, NIDCD)
Teri Manolio (Director, Division of Genomic Medicine, NHGRI)
Steven Kleeberger (Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease Lab, NIEHS)
Warren Leonard (Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NHLBI)
Keiko Ozato (Section on Molecular Genetics of Immunity, NICHD)
Warren Strobe (Mucosal Immunity Section, NIAID)
Kathleen Ries Merikangas (Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, NIMH)
Yoshihiko Yamada (Molecular Biology Section, NIDCR)
Matthew P. Hoffman (Matrix and Morphogenesis Section, NIDCR)
Shioko Kimura (Endocrinology Section, NCI/CCR)
Kim Y. Green (Caliciviruses Section, NIAID)
Jeffrey Burnett Kopp (Kidney Disease Section, NIDDK)
Reiko Toyama (Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch, NICHD)

The 2017 Japan-NIH joint Symposium

Contact

International Exchange Office, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
E-mail: nihsympoinfo*proj.med.tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace "*" with "@")
Tel: +81-22-718-5091