MBC Officials Meet with Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly Members

Baltimore, MD-Three members of Japan's Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly, and a colleague from the Prefectural Government, visited Maryland March 27-30. The legislators were on a fact finding mission to support newly announced ten year plan by Governor Shigefumi Matsuzawa to restructure an existing cancer research institute. The delegation had meetings with private and public sector representatives in Annapolis, Baltimore and Montgomery County and included a visit to UMBI's Medical Biotechnology Center.

  
(Photo 1 & 2: Members of the Kanagawa Delegation [Mr. Norihiko Fukuda, Mr. Takeo Saito, Mr. Kei Ando-Delegation leader, and Mr. Kazuyuki Furukawa-Assistant Chief to Kanagawa Prefectural Government] met with MBC Center Director, Dr. Jonathan Lederer, and Dr. Marian Hughes, Vice President for Academic Affairs at UMBI.)

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Celebrating our 20th anniversary year, UMBI is Maryland's premier biotechnology research institute within the University System of Maryland and was established in 1985. The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) consists of five major research and education centers and is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. UMBI’s centers of research include: CARB, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology located in Rockville; CBR, the Center for Biosystems Research located in College Park; and COMB, the Center of Marine Biotechnology, MBC, the Medical Biotechnology Center, and IHV, the Institute of Human Virology, all located in Baltimore. For more information, visit www.umbi.umd.edu