Opening Ceremony for the Center for Novel Therapeutics (Kyoto University Research Center San Diego).

The Graduate School of Medicine has established the “Kyoto University Research Center San Diego (KURC-SD)”, an on-site laboratory, on the third floor of the Center for Novel Therapeutics (CNT) on the campus of the University of California San Diego (UCSD), from September 2019, the opening of the CNT. CNT is a facility on the UCSD campus that functions as a rental lab and is home to UCSD scientists and Kyoto University as well as other organizations and businesses.

The opening ceremony was held on Friday, September 6, 2019, and was attended by a total of nearly 200 people, including representatives of Kyoto University, UCSD, and San Diego’s industry, government, and academic institutions. At the ceremony, Dr. Nagahiro Minato, Executive Director and Vice Chancellor of Kyoto University, gave an address on behalf of the University. In addition, greetings were given by UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and CNT Director Thomas Kipps, as well as other UCSD and CNT officials, and the ceremony was a great success.

This ceremony was a great opportunity to promote KURC-SD and Kyoto University, and we look forward to more research exchanges and collaborations with UCSD and companies in the San Diego area.