Date: 12/14/2010
TUMSPR News: Professor Wie-gang Fang, the vice-president for Research of Peking University Health Science Center, visited TUMS Cancer Institute on Dec. 12, 2010.
The vice-president for Research of Peking University Health Science Center, Professor Wie-gang Fang, who had earlier met with Dr. Mahmoud Ghazi-khansari, the director of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) International Relations Office, for possibilities of joint collaboration between the two institutions, visited the Cancer Institute affiliated to the University on Dec. 12, 2010.
Dr. Hadad, a faculty member and an affiliate International Relations Representative from the School of Medicine, introduced the Radiotherapy wards and Oncology Department, the dosimetry and BD Planning units and the Institute’s Research Deputy where Dr. Zendeh-del welcomed Dr. Fang and briefed him about the responsibilities of the deputy and the coordinations made there to facilitate research and the efforts to publish the research outputs.
Dr. Reza Shah-siah, at the Institute’s Pathology Lab also briefed Dr. Fang about the activities there and hinted at the 7000 specimen, mostly from the gastrointestinal tract, gynecological and head and neck lesions the lab was examining annually but added that three more similar wards, Urology, Lung and CNS labs that were also examining about 5000 specimens per year at other parts of Imam Hospital Complex. Imam Hospital Complex is composed of four different hospitals.
Dr. Reza Shah-siah, at the Institute’s Pathology Lab also briefed Dr. Fang about the activities there and hinted at the 7000 specimen, mostly from the gastrointestinal tract, gynecological and head and neck lesions the lab was examining annually but added that three more similar wards labs, Urology, Lung and CNS labs were also examining about 5000 specimens at the other parts of Imam Hospital Complex. Imam Hospital Complex is composed of four different hospitals.
In the end, Dr. Fang visited the newly established (2006) tumor databank of the Pathology Lab where 1100 files had been created and 10 specimens for each patient were being kept in fluid nitrogen.
Dr. Fang concluded that both visits had been positive.
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