Butterfly Area in Japan 🇯🇵

The project coordinator, Vice Chancellor Cristina Prandi, together with a UNITO delegation consisting of Prof. Alessandro Vercelli and Ms. Mariasilvia Ciola, United Dean’s Advisor for International Projects, had several meetings with representatives of the RIKEN Institute in Tokyo.

Discussions with the Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Dr. Keiichi Mochida) and the Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (Prof. Kazuhiko Yamamoto) were of particular note.
Prof. Prandi met with Dr. Mikiko Sodeoka, chief scientist of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, and Prof. Franco Nori, chief scientist of the Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory. At the Center for Brain Science, Prof. Alessandro Vercelli and Dr. Ryoichiro Kageyama discussed possible collaborations with both the Department of Neurosciences “Rita Levi Montalcini” and the Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO).