Urgent project to collect new virus information and develop culture method February 20 14:41
With the spread of the new coronavirus infection, MEXT is urgently required to collect information on viruses and develop new culture methods, centering on research networks created at universities that have infectious disease research bases in Asian countries. The project has been launched.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will launch an urgent project to collect information on new coronaviruses and develop new culture methods, centered on research networks created by infectious disease specialists from six universities, including Nagasaki University and the University of Tokyo. became.
This research network has been based on research institutes in Asia and Africa, and has been working on influenza and dengue fever for many years in cooperation with each country.This time, China and Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia, etc. We plan to utilize bases from six countries in Asia.
In addition to developing new virus cultivation methods, we hope to support the practical application of test kits and vaccines by quickly sharing the latest information from Asian countries, such as China, through our bases.