All interested students and faculty are welcome to attend the upcoming defenses of graduate students completing their Ph.D. degrees.

Date: Friday, June 13  Venue: Large Lecture Hall, Clinical Medicine Lecture Building

1. Time: 13:40~14:20
Presenter: Tsutomu ENDO, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Title: The role of Syndecan-4 in the development of autoimmune arthritis

2. Time: 14:30~15:10
Presenter: Takashi KURITA, Division of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology
Title: The treatment, prognosis and its predictive factors of interstitial lung diseases associated with autoimmune diseases.

3. Time: 15:20~16:00
Presenter: Michihito KONO, Division of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology
Title: The synovial proliferative effect of Ras guanine nucleotide-releasing protein 4 in fibroblast-like synoviocytes

• PhD Dissertation Defense June-2014