A team of researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a technique to help make immunomodulation more effective. The method used nanocarriers to re-engineer the commonly used immunosuppressant rapamycin.
Individuals living with Type 1 diabetes must carefully follow prescribed insulin regimens every day, receiving injections of the hormone via syringe, insulin pump or some other device. And without viable long-term treatments, this course of treatment is a lifelong sentence.
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The Fukushima accident was the most severe since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
It has been 10 years since a major earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011.
Now, the Japanese town of Namie has been reduced to less than 8% of its original population as residents remain evacuated, said Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida during his address to a global audience of nuclear experts, which was hosted on March 10 by Northwestern University.
From the event, Northwestern Now offers several points of view by experts who explain the inequities faced by the residents of that region and what it looks like today.
Hirokazu Miyazaki
Hirokazu Miyazaki is the Kay Davis Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. He also serves as Professor (Special Appointment) at Hiroshima University and a Nagasaki Peace Correspondent. Miyazaki was originally trained as a specialist of Fiji and the Pacific Islands. Miyazaki subsequently studied Japan’s financial markets. His current research focuses on civic activism surrounding the uses of nuclear power.
Articles by Hirokazu Miyazaki
New report warns of inevitable nuclear accidents in the future
February 22, 2021
A new report from Northwestern University’s Meridian 180 community is sounding the alarm that victims of nuclear disasters worldwide remain inadequately compensated and calls for a more inclusive process for approving nuclear projects and making nuclear energy decisions that gives ordinary citizens a seat at the table.
The report, “Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima,” calls for a rigorous and inclusive process that transcends national borders and enables wiser decisions about nuclear projects and their many lingering consequences.
“We’re often inclined to think that nuclear disasters don’t happen very often, but that doesn’t take into view the damaging impact these disasters have in the long run on people, agriculture and anyone in the path of the nuclear fallout, sometimes beyond national borders,” said Hiro Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor of Anthropology in the Weinberg Coll