From a treatment perspectiveFrom a vaccination perspectiveFrom an education & educational resources perspectiveFrom an information dissemination perspectiveAssistant Professor KOTAKI Tomohiro Graduate School of Health SciencesProfessor Shirakawa Toshio Graduate School of Science, Technology & InnovationAssociate Professor KARASHIMA Masato Graduate School of Intercultural StudiesAssociate Professor SUZUKI Hirotaka Graduate School of EngineeringThere is an urgent need to develop new medical treatments for novel coronavirus infections. Normally, the infectious virus is used to evaluate new drug candidates. However, due to the highly pathogenic and infectious nature of the novel coronavirus, the infectious virus can only be handled in a biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) laboratory. This presents an obstacle for treatment development. In light of this, we have modied the virus’s genes to create a non-infectious self-replicative coronavirus gene (a replicon), which can be both safely and easily utilized to evaluate newly developed treatments. We will make further improvements to this replicon in the hope that it can accelerate the development of new drugs for novel coronavirus infections.Infection control measures against the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are required on a global scale, and this includes developing countries. The development of vaccines is one eective tool that is contributing greatly towards controlling COVID-19. However, the majority of vaccines are administered by injection and this method is not very suitable for use in developing countries due to issues such as needle disposal. We are currently striving to develop a highly versatile, safe and eective oral vaccine against COVID-19 using an oral vaccine platform technology based on probiotic bidobacteria. With government and industry support we are endeavouring to bring this new vaccine to people worldwide as soon as possible.Microtourism (taking a short vacation in your local area) is currently receiving much attention as a method of reviving tourism in areas where the industry has been severely impacted by the pandemic. However it has been said that attracting private travellers from abroad could be the key to reviving the travel industry in the long term. In the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies we are currently conducting several projects to regenerate tourism through intersecting global and local cultural phenomena. Among these, there is a project that aims to produce tourism resources that are attractive to Jewish tourists by uncovering historical resources and trajectories which tell of the relationship between Kobe and the Jewish world. It is being funded by Kobe City (Urban Innovation KOBE) as a project that is tackling focal policy issues in a with/post-corona society.I believe that the coronavirus will bring about a paradigm shift in architectural space design. Therefore, we established a competition in order to gather ideas based on the focal concept of ‘separate but connected’ in the post-corona period (Target: an open space in Faculty of Engineering, Applicants: Kobe University students). A rst prize and 2 runner-up prizes were awarded in the Spatial Design category and a rst prize was given in the Technical Proposal category.For more details about the awarding guidelines and a report on the award ceremony (where the prizes were presented by the former Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, Professor OHMURA Naoto), please visit the Graphics Literacy Education and Research Center’s homepage: http://www.research.kobe-u.ac.jp/eng-glec/ (mostly in Japanese).08
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