Vietnam Research Station
Photo 1. Research Meeting in Quang Ninh
Photo 2. Nagasaki Higashi High School Vietnam Training Program in 2024
Since 2015, the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Disease (J-GRID) project has been taken over to the newly established Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and J-GRID project, a new five-year project, “Study on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in Vietnam.” has been started from 2020. A further two-year extension was approved, and it was decided that the program would be implemented until fiscal year 2026. The Vietnam Research Station in the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology （NIHE） in Hanoi is currently manned by 4 staffs from NU, and the Nha Trang sub-station by 1 permanent staff, in addition to which 12 researchers from NU and a further 67 researchers from other research institutions participate in the activities of the Station and conduct research.
Members
- Professor
- Futoshi Hasebe
- Professor
- Le Mai Thi Quynh
- Associate Professor
- Haruka Abe
- Assistant Professor
- Nguyen Thi Nga
- Research Fellow
- Murasaki Amano
- Administrative Staff
- Kazutaka Urita
- Assistant
- Kazuko Mori（in Nekken）
Activities
The main research topics are dengue fever, infectious diarrhea, influenza, and drug-resistant bacteria, severe childhood pneumonia, zoonotic diseases（bat-derived infectious diseases） and new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) are included to study to contribute to prevention of infectious diseases collaboration with National Center for Global Health and Medicine. In addition, six joint research projects related to drug-resistant bacteria, mosquito vector, COVID-19, HIV, zoonosis and tuberculosis were conducted as research for utilizing the Vietnam Research Station collaboration with the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Kyoto University, Kumamoto University and Research Institute of Tuberculosis.
In 2023, as part of the general collaborative research of NEKKEN, we conducted rickettsia/leptospira research with University of Tokyo, and collaborative research with the University of Miyazaki on diarrhea-causing E. coli.
The Vietnam Research Station has been conducting educational support as an early exposure facility in the Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, and also utilized as an on-the-job-training facility for other researchers and students from NU and other universities and also high school students. "SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE" was held in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam on March 24, 2020, with 60 Vietnamese participants, 24 Japanese participants, and 5 participants online, and the research results of the 4th phase project were reported. (Photo-1).
Recent main research achievement
- Hoa-Tran et al. Virus Evol 2024; 10(1): veae045.
- Fraenkel et al. Microorganisms 2024; 12(6): 1092.
- Nguyen et al. Int J Infect Dis 2024; 139: 109-117.
- Hasebe. Nagasaki City Medical Association Bulletin 2024; 58(7): 689.
- Nguyen et al. Viruses 2023; 15(10): 2065.