WISTAR INSTITUTE FOR ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY, PHILADELPHIA.

The article focuses on the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The institute is the oldest independent biomedical research organization in the U.S. It has strong ties with Japanese neuroscience since 1906, when Shinichi Hatai, neuropathologist, moved there as a staff member. The Institute got young Japanese trainees with the appointment of Hilary Koprowski as the Director of the Institute, in 1957. More than 50 Japanese scientists are engaged in biomedical research now.