The Virtual Meeting on Academic Exchange and Cooperation between

 Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital and Kobe University Hospital


On June 30th, the Department of Pathology of Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital (TMUCIH) and the Department of Diagnostic Pathology of Kobe University Hospital held an on-line academic exchange meeting. This was attended by: Prof. Tomoo Itoh (伊藤智雄), President and Director of the Dept. of Diagnostic Pathology; Prof. Yoshinori Kodama (児玉良典) from the Dept. of Diagnostic Pathology; Dr. Ruizi Zhang from the International Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Kobe University Hospital; Mr. Takahashi Kenji (高桥健司),Chief Representative of the Tianjin Office of the Kobe Center for International Cooperation and Exchange; Muqun Xia, Director, of the Dept. of International Exchange of Tianjin Medical University; Prof. Bin Meng, Director of the Dept. of Pathology of TMUCIH; Prof. Qiongli Zhai, Assistant Director, Dept. of Pathology, TMUCIH; Mrs. Lijun Zhang, Director of the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and the doctors and researchers from the Dept. of Pathology, TMUCIH, who participated in the virtual academic exchange activities.


At the virtual meeting, Muqun Xia, Director of the Dept. of International Exchange, Tianjin Medical University, presided over the meeting and introduced the participants. Bin Meng, Director of the Dept. of Pathology of TMUCIH and Prof. Tomoo Itoh (伊藤智雄), President and Director of the Dept. Diagnostic Pathology of Kobe University Hospital, introduced the general situation of the discipline of pathology, staffing, pathology technology and diagnosis. During the discussion, the two sides had in-depth discussions on the pathological diagnosis system and the treatment of difficult cases. The two sides expect this to provide more opportunities to carry out further scientific research cooperation, remote professional exchanges and consultation on difficult cases in the future.


Kobe University Hospital was established in 1869, it was previously known as the affiliated hospital of Kobe Medical College in Hyogo County, and was renamed the Affiliated Hospital of the Medical Department of Kobe University in 1967. The hospital is one of the main hospitals in Hyogo County, providing the important facility of cultivating medical talents and improving the level of medicine in the area.

In 2019, on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Tianjin and Kobe, Japan; strongly supported by the two municipal governments, Tianjin Medical University signed a MOU of intercollegiate cooperation with Kobe University. Every year, the two universities hold academic exchange meetings. The breast cancer experts of our hospital have been invited to participate in the academic exchange to share the latest research achievements of clinical and scientific research work with their Japanese peers.



This on-line academic exchange has enhanced the mutual understanding of pathological experts and scholars from the two hospitals and opened up a new phase in the cooperation and exchange between TMUCIH and Kobe University Hospital. This meeting has also laid a foundation for exchanges and cooperation between the various disciplines from the two institutions which will play a crucial role in the future in promoting discipline development. It is hoped that through holding more international academic exchange activities, we will boost our hospital’s development of the tumor discipline in basic research and clinical diagnosis, constantly enhance its international academic influence, and strive to achieve the goal of ‘becoming a leading domestic, world-class" modern cancer prevention and treatment research center.