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Samuel Weiner Distinguished Lecturer - Professor Soroku Yagihashi

Professor Soroku Yagihashi

Professor & Head, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine

Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki University, Japan

Research & Public Lectures:

Public Lecture will be held on Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 12:00 Noon

Room 500 John Buhler Research Centre, 715 McDermot Avenue

TOPIC: Diabetes as a specific disease of the islet. A journey around the islet of Langerhans.

Scientific Lecture will be held on Friday, July 25, 2014 at 12:00 Noon

Room 500 John Buhler Research Centre, 715 McDermot Avenue

TOPIC: Pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy. New theories beyond hyperglycemia.

For more information contact:

Paul Fernyhough

e: pfernyhough@sbrc.ca or t: 204.235.3692

Kelly Jorundson Administrative Manager, Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders St. Boniface Hospital Research & Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics University of Manitoba

Room R4046 - 351 Taché Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6 CANADA

Tel: 204.235.3939 Fax: 204.237.4092

Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca OR kjorund@yahoo.ca Website: www.sbrc.ca/dnd OR www.umanitoba.ca/medicine/units/pharmacology