Vietnam Research Station
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. The Vietnam Research Station in the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology（NIHE） in Hanoi is currently manned by 3 staffs from NU, and the Nha Trang sub-station by 2 permanent staff, in addition to which 20 reserchers from NU and a further 64 researchers from other research institutions participate in the activities of the Station and conduct research
Information
The report of the 12th Hanoi Open Lecture has been posted.
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Members
- Professor
- Futoshi Hasebe
- Associate Professor
- Haruka Abe
- Research Fellow
- Nguyen Thi Nga
- Administrative Staff
- Madoka Mori
- 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, three joint research projects related to drug-resistant bacteria, mosquito vector, COVID-19, HIV 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 from NU and other universities. "Study on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in Vietnam Nagasaki University - NIHE Joint Symposium" was held on November 21, 2020 at the Ryojun Hall, Nagasaki University (Photo 1). A workshop “Infectious disease research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam” was held at the Global Health Joint Conference 2023 at the Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo on November 26th. (Photo-2).
Recent main research achievement
- Nguyen et al. Int J Infect Dis 2024; 139: 109-117.
- Nabeshima et al. J Med Virol 2023; 95(11): e29255.
- Nguyen et al. Viruses 2023; 15(10): 2065.
- Iguchi et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2023; 17(4): e0011259.
- Takemura T et al. Trop Med Health 2022;50(1):3.