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From 15 to 16 June, we held the third workshop in Hakone, a popular resort area with hot spring bath. Three distinguished guest speakers kindly attended our workshop and intensive discussion was continued until mid night with 31 participants from major pharmaceutical industries, national institutes, universities, and government in Japan. The theme was "Integration of new trends in drug discovery technology with natural product research." Two-day workshop made a good impression to the participants.

Program

Date & Time	June 15-16, 2001
Place:	Fujimi-en, Hakone
Organizers	Toru Okuda & Toshikazu Oki, Tamagawa University Research Institute
Themes	Integration of new trends in drug discovery technology with natural product research
	Genomics, trends in natural product screening programs, and Convention on Biological Diversity

1	Howard Wildman	Cerylid Biosciences, Australia*	Accessing chemical diversity from Australian microbial diversity - natural products drug discovery at Cerylid Biosciences
2	Antony Buss	Centre for Natural Product Research (CNPR), Singapore**	High throughput screening and natural product drug discovery
3	Nada Zein	Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), USA	A genomic approach to natural product chemistry
4	Satoshi Nagata & Hisaya Watanabe	Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)	National projects proposed by METI
5	Tsuyoshi Hosoya	Sankyo Co., Laboratories for Biological Resources Research, Tsukuba	•Searches for new fungal resources and construction of library
6	Toru Okuda	Tamagawa University Research Insititute	Roles of biological resource centers in CBD era, based on the discussion in OECD and activities in Asian countries

Participants

Participants are 30 comprised of the following institutions.

Ajinomoto Corp., Takeda Chemical Industry, Toyama Prefectural University, Sankyo Co., National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Asahi Chemical Corp., Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Banyu Pharmaceuticals Co., Osaka University, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, Mercian Corp., Taisho Pharmaceuticals Co., Ohtsuka Chemical Co., Meiji Seika Co.

Responses from participants and others

A variety of information provided by guest speakers are valuable
More intensive discussions were needed
The workshop should be continued in the future
We found the scientists involved in natural product research are very enthusiastic in Japan (response from overseas)
We should have a clear visions and intensive discussions for natural product research in Japan as well as outside Japan (response from overseas)
Some inquiries were received when the information of the workshop was uploaded in the website of Nikkie Biotech. Mainichi News Paper showed some interests in the workshop

Future plans
We are thinking about the future workshop as follows:

Twice a year
Spring workshop in around May or June on the premise of Tamagawa; in the afternoon of Saturday
Autumn workshop in November near Tokyo, inviting guest speakers from overseas; two-day workshop (Friday and Saturday) but free discussion sessions on Saturday

Photo Gallery
Photos taken during the workshop and post-workshop activity in Hakone

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