1999 ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

Joint Seminar

(1) Molecular Basis of Tumor Invasion and Metastasis : Strategic Aplication to Canser Therapy Feb 7-1 1, 2000 Hawali
	Coordinators:	Motoharu Seiki Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo William G. Stetler-stevenson Extracellular Matrix Pathologgy Section, National Cancer Institute
	Participants:	US-7 Japan-11

(2) Carcinogenesis by Chronic Infection and Inflammation Dec 6-9, 1999 Nara
	Coordinators:	Hiroshi Maeda School of Medicine, Kumamoto University Curtis Harris National Canser Institute, National Institutes of Health
	Participants:	US-11 Japan-10

(3) Molecularpath Ogenesis of Phacomatosis Mar 24-25, 2000 Boston
	Coordinators:	Okio Hino Department of Experimental Pathology, Cancer Institute David J. Kwiatkowski Genetics Laboratory, Bringham & Women's Hospital
	Participants:	US-7 Japan-10

2. EXCHANGE OF SCIENTISTS
From Japan:

(1) IMAIZUMI, Masue Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Tohoku University School of Medicine
	Research Subject	Molecular and Biological Research on Mechanisms of Retinoid-induced differentiation and apoptosis of Neuroblastoma Cells
	Main Host	Carol J. Thiele Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health
	Period	Dec 1999-Mar 2000

(2) HIGUCHl, Hiroshi Department of Pharmacology , Niigata University School of Medicine
	Research Subject	Dioxin-induced Transcriptional Regulation of Oncogenic Genes
	Main Host	Toru Miki Department of Cellular & Molecular Biology, National Institute of Health
	Period	Oct-Nov 1999

(3) SHOYAMA, Yukihiro Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University
	Research Subject	Study on naturally occurring anti-cancer products having sugar chain
	Main Host	Kuo-Hsiung Lee School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina
	Period	Mar 2000
(4) YOSHIDA, Teruhiko Genetics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute
	Research Subject	Analysis of Genetic Abnormalities of Pancreaticcancer and Development of Gene Therapy Targeted to Cancer Tissues
	Main Host	Lance A. Liotta Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health
	Period	Feb 2000
(5) KIMURA, Sachiko Research Associate, Himeji Institute of Technology
	Research Subject	Studies on protection against environmental mutagens and carcinogens
	Main Host	John H. Weisburger American Health Foundation
	Period	Jan-Mar 2000
(6) HAYASHl, Shinichi Saitama Cancer Center Research Institute
	Research Subject	Regulation of Expression and Function of Estrogen Receptor in Breast Cancer
	Main Host	Seong-Jin Kim, PhD Laboratory of Chemoprevention, National Institute of Health
	Period	Feb-Apr 2000
(7) KOMINAMI, Ryo Department of Biochemistry. , Niigata University School of Medicine
	Research Subject	Analysis of Tlsr4-derived Gene Expression Profiles Using cDNA microarrays
	Main Host	Minoru Ko Developmental Genomics & Aging Section Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health
	Period	Mar 2000
(8) ISHINO, Masaho Sapporo Medical University, Cancer Research Institute
	Research Subject	Signal Transduction Mediated by Efs, An Adaptor Protein
	Main Host	Maurice Green Institutte for Molecular Virology, St. Louis University
	Period	Feb 2000
(9) MIYAGAWA, Kiyoshi Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University
	Research Subject	Functional Analysis of the RAD54 Recombination Factor
	Main Host	Charles M Radding Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine
	Period	Feb-Mar 2000
(10) YANAGIE, Hironobu Department of Surgery, Institute of Medical Science, Research Associate, University of Tokyo
	Research Subject	Development of Intelligent Liposomal System for Cancer Gene Therapy
	Main Host	Leaf Huang, Ph. D Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Pittsburgh
	Period	Feb-Mar 2000
(11) MIYAJIMA, Atsushi Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo
	Research Subject	Cytokine Regulation of Hematopoiesis
	Main Host	Garry Nolan Stanford University
	Period	Feb 2000
(12) UEDA, Kazumitsu Division of Applied Life Sciences, Kyoto University
	Research Subject	Molecular Mechanism of Multidrug Efflux Pump P-glycoprotein
	Main Host	Ira Pastan National Cancer institute
	Period	Sep 1999