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 Dr. Ozato is second person from the left on the panel At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an "NIH Kinyo-kai (Friday Meeting)" is held monthly for mainly postdoc Japanese researchers working in the US at the NIH. On 5 October, the JSPS Washington Office and members of the NIH Kinyo-kai held a gathering to celebrate the earlier conferral of the Japanese government's Order of the Sacred Treasure on Dr. Keiko Ozato, deputy chief for Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation at National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH. She received this commendation for her long years of contributing to the advancement of molecular immunology research and of strengthening medical research cooperation between the US and Japan. From the time that the JSPS fellowship program was established at NIH, Dr. Ozato has chaired its NIH review panel. In the first half of the get-together, Dr. Ozato gave a commemorative lecture, followed in the second half by a panel discussion on how to establish international careers by experienced Japanese researchers working at NIH. The some 80 mostly NIH-affiliated Japanese researchers who gathered for this event, extolled the achievements of Dr. Ozato—a female Japanese researcher who in the 1970s went to the US where she advanced her research while overcoming various difficulties, and has contributed greatly to the US-Japan scientific partnership. - JSPS Washington Office  |
