Osaka, Japan, 25 April 2014

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), today visited Osaka University Hospital in Japan and held a meeting with the President of Osaka University, Dr Toshio Hirano. They discussed potential collaboration between Qatar and the University, as well as student exchanges.

While there, Her Highness paid a visit to a Qatari patient currently undergoing innovative stem cell treatment at the University Hospital.

This was the final stop on her five-day visit to Japan that has sought to strengthen ties between the two countries in the fields of research and development, with a focus on computing, energy, environment and biomedical research.

During the visit, a number of Memorandums of Understanding were signed between Qatar Foundation and Japanese entities aiming to further develop research collaboration and people-to-people exchanges.