Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital

Medical professors from Korea, Japan and China participated in the International Partnership Symposium on Life Science held at Nagoya City University (NCU) in Japan on February 20, 2009. At the invitation of Dr. Hitoo Nishino, NCU President, the five-member Hallym University delegation, led by Prof. Yong-Sun Kim, Vice President of Health Sciences, visited Nagoya last month.

The three-session academic gathering was attended by a number of medical scientists of Hallym University, Korea, Nagoya City University, Japan, and Shenyang Medical College and Nanjing Medical University, China

Prof. Kim noted in his opening remarks, "I firmly believe that today's symposium will serve as a platform for enhancing the cooperative relationship among the medical schools of Asian countries like Nagoya, Shenyang, Nanjing and Hallym."

Exchange initiatives of Hallym-Nagoya go back to the year of 2006 when Hallym entered into an MOU with Nagoya in November, 2006 to promote the mutual cooperation in the area of education and research.

The program agenda of the symposium is as follows:

Opening Remarks
Hitoo Nishino (President, Nagoya City University)
Yong-Sun Kim (Vice President of Health Sciences, Director of Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University)

Session I
Chairs: Kwon Ik Oh (College of Medicine, Hallym University)
Hikaru Suzuki (Grad. Sch. of Med. Sci., Nagoya City University)

RhoA regulates superoxide generation and phagocytosis of macrophages by Jae-Bong Park (College of Medicine, Hallym University)
A transfection technique of small interfering RNA by single-cell electroporation in
neuronal cell cultures by Masahiko Tanaka (Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci., Nagoya City University)
Citrullinated proteins: potential diagnostic markers of prion disease by Eun-Kyoung Choi (Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University)

Session II
Chairs: Liu Zheng (Second Affil. Hospital, Nanjing Medical University)
Yoshinori Kumazawa (Grad. Sch. of Nat. Sci., Nagoya City University)

Bacterial endotoxin induces the release of high mobility group box 1 via the interferon-beta signaling pathway by Kwon Ik Oh (College of Medicine, Hallym University)
Stochastic modeling for understanding human genome diversity: Genomic basis of the dual origin of the Japanese by Shuhei Mano (Grad. Sch. of Nat. Sci., Nagoya City University; Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Effects of low-dose Bisphenol A and Diethylhexyl Phthalate on PC3 cells
Proliferation by Duan Zhiwen (Dep. of Toxicol., Shenyang Medical College)

Session III
Chairs: Eun-Kyoung Choi (Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University)
Satoshi Fujii (Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci., Nagoya City University)

The screening and function research of hepatocellular carcinoma-related gene by Tang Qi (Dept. of Pathol., Nanjing Medical University)
The role of phosphorylation of H3-Threonine 11 in transcriptional regulation and
cellular senescence by Midori Shimada (Grad. Sch. of Med. Sci., Nagoya City University)
Gene expression analysis of terminal differentiation of human melanoma cells by Dongchul Kang (Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University)

Closing Remarks
Wang Huiwen (Dean, Sch. Of Int. Edu., Shenyang Medical College)

By Younghee Han, Int'l Operations Team, HUMC (symposium@hallym.or.kr)