North Carolina Biotechnology Center executives are among the state leaders hosting a group of some 40 scientists from Japan's revered Nagoya University this week.
Marjorie Benbow, director of the Greater Charlotte Office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, is among the regional executives hosting a group during a visit to the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis.
The contingent included the Research Campus as part of a trip to North Carolina to participate in the NU-TECH 2010 conference in Research Triangle Park.
"We're truly honored to have this visit, especially because Nagoya is a premiere campus in the global sphere of commercializing new scientific discoveries," said Benbow. "As an example, four Nagoya faculty members have won the Nobel Prize -- two in physics and two in chemistry."
After a working lunch, the group was slated to tour the David H. Murdock Research Institute before heading to Research Triangle Park for the conference.
There, the researchers from Nagoya will be joined by counterparts from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and East Carolina University to discuss more than 20 collaborative breakthrough engineering and life science technologies.
Norris Tolson, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Center, is among the speakers at the conference.
Others include:
- J. Keith Crisco, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Commerce
- Ray Wood, Ph.D., vice president of pharmaceutical and analytical R&D for Eisai, Inc., contributor to the development of several patented medications.
- Masao Ando, president of EQUOS Research and director of Aisin AW, developer and OEM for vehicle automatic transmissions and car navigation systems.