Scholarship Report

Shigeki Uchida, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Surgery and Surgical Basic Science,
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Host Institute: St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University
Host Scientist: Dr Jeffrey M. Isner and Dr Takayuki Asahara

The Recipients of the 2002 ISDE Scholarship

Dr. Juan Carlos Meneu-diaz

"Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Host Institution: New York Hospital, New York, U.S.A.

Dr. Roberto R. Taruselli Morencio

Pasteur Hospital and Medical School Montevideo, Uruguay

Host Institution: National Cancer Center Hospital Tokyo, Japan

I would like to show great thanks for the support of ISDE scholarship 2000 to study in USA. I had the opportunity to study in Boston, where I studied research for tumor angiogenesis from February 2000 to March 2001. The laboratory was the cardiovascular research where angiogenesis was investigated aggressively and leading in this field, gene therapy was conducted for ischemic diseases successfully in the clinic department. Basically research fellows were conducting many in vivo experiments for vasculogenesis and many original methods to investigate anglogenesls had been established. In the situation I could enjoy tumor angiogenesis research using esophageal cancer cell line which I brought from Kyoto University. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Jeffrey M. Isner and Dr. Takayuki Asahara for giving me an opportunlty to study in Boston.
Boston is one of the centers for angiogenesls research in the world. I could also participate in some meeting for angiogenesis held at the Harvard University In Boston.
It was the most precious experience for me. Fortunately I could attend to the meeting.
Angiogellesis and Cancer hosted by American Association for Cancer Research held in Michigan in autumn, I could hear the latest knowledge about tumor angiogenesis there, and also enjoyed the autumn foliage in Michigan.
Besides the researches for tumor angiogenesis I assisted the research for heart failure models for gene therapy using mice and rats. They had been continued after I came back to Japan.
I heard the experiments going well and in success.
I actually enjoyed researches with friends in the laboratory and life with my family in old historic Boston. Unfortunately Boston is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live so that I Iearned to lead a frugal life.
Finally I appreciate generous decision to award me to study In a cardiovascular research laboratory. I would like to show great thanks to the Scho]arship Committe of ISDE for awarding me the ISDE 2000 scholarship, and all staffs in the cardiovascular research, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, for the help and great hospitality during my stay in Boston.