HH Sheikha Moza visits Osaka University Hospital

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HH Sheikha Moza visits Osaka University Hospital


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.