From February 17-21, 2020, lecturers from\u00a0the\u00a0University\u00a0of Hiroshima, Japan, visited MU-Sofia\u00a0under the Erasmus+ programme\u00a0academic exchange with partner countries.<\/p>\n
\u0422he institutionalized partnership between Medical University – Sofia and Hiroshima University, Japan has started since 2012.\u00a0In a friendly atmosphere, HE Watanabe Masato, Ambassador of Japan to Bulgaria, gave an\u00a0official dinner\u00a0to the\u00a0Rector of MU-Sofia\u00a0Prof.\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Victor Zlatkov, MD\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Head of International Integration and Project Funding\u00a0Department Prof.\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Radoslav Gurchev, MD, DSc.<\/p>\n
The two universities have enjoyed successful collaboration in research projects in the fields of medicine, dental medicine and health sciences, social behavior and lifestyle for over 37 years\u00a0so far.\u00a0The guest speakers gave interesting lectures to the audience of MU-Sofia, which were attended by students and professors from the Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Dr. Norio Sakai, MD, PhD, from the Department of Biomedicine and Health Sciences presented a lecture on regulation\u00a0of serotonin transporter\u00a0function via\u00a0its membrane trafficking. Prof. Dr. Masao Yoshizumi, MD, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine,\u00a0presented\u00a0the topic of the influence of certain nutrients in terms of vascular biology and biomedical engineering for the treatment of arteriosclerosis and other diseases of the bone system. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hiroki Kokubo, also from the Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, discussed the\u00a0cardiac\u00a0development of the embryo in\u00a0view\u00a0of human anatomy.<\/p>\n
The topics of the three lecturers provoked the students to ask questions in the open discussion panel after the lectures and the meeting\u00a0proceeded as\u00a0an interesting scientific debate.<\/p>\n