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President
of Nagasaki University
Hiroshi
Saito
M.D., Ph.D.
President's Profile
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Presidentfs Speech at Singing Ceremony of the Agreement on Academic Cooperation
between
Fujian Medical University and Nagasaki University
July 23, 2007
I am very proud and honored to have renewed the Agreement on Academic Cooperation with esteemed Fujian Medical University today.
Our first contact goes all the way back to 1996 when we discussed academic exchange and drew up a memorandum. In the following year, 1997, I visited Fujian Medical University to give a lecture on gEnvironmental Cadmium Pollution and Health Hazards in Residentsh as a starter for our valuable academic exchange. Afterward, in 2000, Nagasaki University School of Medicine hosted the gJapan-China Environmental Science Symposiumh and engaged in an exhilarating discussion with scientists from Fujian Medical University. In 2001, the Agreement on Academic Cooperation was finally concluded, and consequently a wide variety of activities including exchange of researchers, implementation of seminars and collaborative research, and publication of joint papers has been carried out.
Nagasaki has long enjoyed amicable relations with Fujian from the Edo period. With such a historical background, Nagasaki Prefecture established a sister city relationship with Fujian, as did Nagasaki City and Fujianfs capital, Fuzhou. This is the Agreement concluded between the two representative Universities of those sister cities. I believe it will further accelerate interaction and friendship between the citizens of Nagasaki and Fujian.
From now on, we expect to contribute to the advancement of medical cooperation between the sister cities on common issues, especially on environmental endocrine disrupters and viral infectious diseases. My wish is that we extend our joint efforts to all study fields of our Universities with an eye to conducting cooperative projects on international health activities and the health effects of environmental toxic substances such as metallic contamination.
Through the productive exchange of the next five years, I sincerely hope that our Universities will form even closer ties both in research and in education.
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