BRIEF

Feb 8, 2010 — The Charlotte Observer

Karen Garloch

Feb. 8, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Forty of the world's most prestigious Japanese scientists from Nagoya University will visit the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis Tuesday.

Home to four Nobel Prize-winning professors in physics and chemistry, Nagoya is on the forefront of Japan's technology transfer industry. After a working lunch with NCRC researchers at Restaurant 46 and a tour of the David H. Murdock Research Institute, the Japanese entourage will travel to Raleigh to attend NU-TECH 2010 at Research Triangle Park.

NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, and East Carolina University will participate with Nagoya in presenting 20 collaborative breakthrough technologies from the fields of life science, biotechnology and engineering at the NU-TECH conference.

Mary Ann Lila, director of the Plants for Human Health Research Institute at the Kannapolis campus, presented her research findings to Nagoya University scientists at a conference she attended in Japan last year. She will guide the tour of the Japanese scientists at the institute she heads.

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