An eventful year of NCRM was commemorated with a series of events starting with the Fujio Cup Quiz on Stem Cells and Regenerative medicine

The inaugural address was given by Mr. Vijayakumar (NCRM, Chennai) and Sixth Anniversary News Bulletin "Cell-e'-bration" (Vol:6) was released by Prof. Gary levy, Director, University of Toronto Transplantation Institute, Toronto, and Dr. Kazutoshi Haraguchi, Director, Kawamura Institute of Chemical Research, Chiba, Japan

The Consul General of Japan at Chennai Mr. Masanori Nakano lauded the Indo-Japan collaborative efforts in this evolving field of stem cells by NCRM and its Japanese collaborators and distributed the prizes to winners of the Fujio Cup Quiz, an all India quiz competition on stem cells conducted for the 5th time consecutively named after the renowned Japanese physician Dr Fujio Takayama. The first prize and the prestigious ever-rotating Fujio cup went to the team from Madras Medical College, Chennai

In the beginning the annual report was presented by Dr Abraham. The winners of the events were presented by Dr. S.P. Preethy.

The event concluded with the national anthems of both Japan and India.