Isobe Minoru, Nishikawa Toshio
Institute of Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Japan.
Yakugaku Zasshi. 2009 Apr;129(4):401-6. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.129.401.
The vision to establish this program was to establish and extend cooperative research efforts beyond the intraregional boundaries. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has taken an initiative to support an Asian Core Program, which aims to create world-class research hubs within the Asian region and foster the development of the next generation of leading researchers by establishing sustainable collaborative relations among research and educational institutions in Asian countries. Nagoya University strongly supports and is the Core University of this program with Minoru Isobe and Toshio Nishikawa serving as the coordinator. Representing their respective countries/regions, Guo-Qiang Lin and Zhu-Jun Yao (China, Shanghai), Sunggak Kim and Kwan-Soo Kim (Korea), Somsak Ruchirawat (Thailand), and Chun-Chen Liao and Biing-Jiun Uang (China, Taipei) share in the vision to enhance collaborative efforts. As coordinators they have invited many cooperative universities/institutes in their home countries/regions to start the network since 2005. Singapore (Tech-Peng Loh) has joined lately, and Hong Kong is represented by Henry Wong. All cooperating regions also agreed to support this program by acquiring matching funds for the duration of the program, that is, until March 2010. This program is jointly supported by the JSPS (Japan), the NNSFC (China, Beijing), the NSCT (China, Taipei), the KOSEF/CMDS (Korea), the NRCT/CRI (Thailand), and the IUPAC for an East Asian Network Task group project. Pauline Chiu takes the general secretary work. The initiation of the Asian Core Program and the Inauguration Conference (The 0th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia; ICCEOCA-0) was held in Nagoya (2006. 3), which was followed by ICCEOCA-1 in Okinawa, Japan (2006. 10), ICCEOCA-2 in Busan, Korea (2007. 9), ICCEOCA-3 in Hangzhou, China (2008. 10). A post symposium of ICCEOCA-1 was held in Hsinchu, Taiwan (2006. 10), and a satellite symposium of ICCEOCA-2 was held in Bangkok, Thailand (2007. 11). Future international conferences will be held in Bangkok (2009. 11) and Taipei (2010).
设立该项目的愿景是在区域内边界之外建立并扩展合作研究工作。日本学术振兴会（JSPS）已主动支持一项亚洲核心项目，该项目旨在通过在亚洲国家的研究和教育机构之间建立可持续的合作关系，在亚洲地区创建世界级的研究中心，并培养下一代顶尖研究人员。名古屋大学大力支持该项目，并作为核心大学，由矶部实和西川敏夫担任协调员。郭强林和姚祝军（中国上海）、Sungguak Kim和Kwan-Soo Kim（韩国）、Somsak Ruchirawat（泰国）以及廖俊成和翁炳钧（中国台北）代表各自国家/地区，共同致力于加强合作。自2005年以来，作为协调员，他们已邀请各自国家/地区的许多合作大学/机构启动该网络。新加坡（Tech-Peng Loh）最近加入，香港由黄亨利代表。所有合作地区还同意在项目期间，即到2010年3月，通过获取配套资金来支持该项目。该项目由日本学术振兴会（日本）、国家自然科学基金委员会（中国北京）、国家科学委员会（中国台北）、韩国科学与工程基金会/化学与材料发展司（韩国）、泰国国家研究委员会/化学研究所以及国际纯粹与应用化学联合会东亚网络任务组项目共同支持。Pauline Chiu负责秘书长工作。亚洲核心项目的启动及开幕式会议（第0届亚洲前沿有机化学国际会议；ICCEOCA - 0）于名古屋举行（2006年3月），随后在日本冲绳举行了ICCEOCA - 1（2006年10月）、在韩国釜山举行了ICCEOCA - 2（2007年9月）、在中国杭州举行了ICCEOCA - 3（2008年10月）。ICCEOCA - 1的会后研讨会在台湾新竹举行（2006年10月），ICCEOCA - 2的卫星研讨会在泰国曼谷举行（2007年11月）。未来的国际会议将在曼谷（2009年11月）和台北（2010年）举行。
