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Activity Report of Open Application Course vol.24
Study in Nagasaki! ~From the medicine of Dejima to the latest cuttingedge drugs~
Report from Nagasaki University
This is the second year of invitation support from the SAKURA Exchange Program in Science(Science and Technology Experience Course). In the midst of a cold weather warning for the city ofNagasaki caused by a cold wave, 10 pharmaceuticals students and graduate students fromThailand's Chulalongkorn University and 1 supervising teacher took part in the Science andTechnology Experience Course run mainly by the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Nagasaki
Univ. for approximately 1 week from January 22nd to 27th, 2018.
On the first day of their arrival, the participants introduced themselves and were introduced to thehistory of Nagasaki and Nagasaki Univ. by staff from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and theliaison organization, with a break for lunch in between. Snow flurries started during theseproceedings, which is rare in Nagasaki, and the Thai students were overjoyed.
Afterward, they visited the Shimomura Novel Laureate Memorial Center for Drug Discovery, wherethey viewed Dr. Shimomura's research achievements linked to his Nobel Prize in Science as well as
various exhibited materials connecting him to the university. The students had a lot of questions forthe staff member explaining the museum. They also toured other facilities on the Nagasaki Univ.
campus such as the medicinal plant botanical gardens and the university library.

Study tour of the Shimomura Novel Laureate Memorial Center for Drug Discovery

In the evenings during the invitation period, gatherings were held with the instructors in charge oflectures at each research laboratory, the TAs that support them, and study abroad students.
Although the food was simply provided by the co-op cafeteria, the participants talked excitedly
about unique Nagasaki foods and Japanese cuisine, and these topics kept the energy going during
the gatherings.

Gatherings

Over a period of 2 days starting from the following day, the participants visited and toured theorganic, biological, and physical analysis research laboratories of the School of Pharmaceutical
Sciences. Lectures covered topics such as the development history of fundamental
pharmaceuticals, chronological progression of Alzheimer's disease treatment, possibilities forarteriosclerosis medication using bioactive lipids, and the development of analysis reagents using
fluorescence phenomena and their applications to environmental analysis. These topics wereintroduced and analyzed, and lectures also featured simple practical training elements. The

students proactively and diligently participated.

Lecture scene

Practical training in a research laboratory

Commemorative photo outside the entrance to Nagasaki Univ.'s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

In the second half of the program, the students traveled to the cities of Tosu and Kurume. First,
they visited the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Saga Factory, then they toured the Saga Nutraceuticals
Research Institute, which is located inside the same grounds, where they received an explanationof the company's products based on the themes of "nutrition" and "exercise."In the afternoon on the same day, they visited the Kyushu Block Red Cross Blood Center of theJapanese Red Cross Society, which is located in the city of Kurume, toured the area where blood
products are manufactured, and listened intently to the explanations of blood testing.

After the visit to the Red Cross Blood CenterOn the final day, the students toured the Nakatomi Memorial Medicine Museum in Tosu. There is anexcellent herbal medicine museum within the grounds of Chulalongkorn Univ. as well, and thestudents seemed to take a great deal of interest in the herbal medicine samples, stories of thehistory of Japanese medicine, and the documents on display.

Scene from the Nakatomi Memorial Medicine Museum tour

At a meeting room in a hotel in Tosu in the afternoon on that day, 2 instructors from Nagasaki Univ.
joined the students for a research report on the contents of the program. During this event, each ofthe students used slideshows with videos that they worked hard to create up until the day before to
give passionate presentations about aspects of the program they found memorable and theirimpressions of it, and also shared their hopes for the future, including other study abroadprograms. Afterward, each of the students was given a certificate of completion and acommemorative pin, concluding the program in a meaningful way.

Scene from the research report session

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