Dr. Josep Lluís Barona-Vilar, an IROAST visiting professor, from Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia López Piñero (IHMC), Universidad de Valencia, Spain, gave a talk for the graduate and undergraduate students on November 16 and 22, 2017. The seminars were organized by Prof. Ihara Group in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry. In the seminars Prof. Barona-Vilar talked about "History of Science & Medicine in Valencia," and the students listened to his talk attentively. The attendants of the seminar on 16 included young teachers, researchers and students from Bangladesh and Malaysia who came to Kumamoto in the Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science, "SAKURA Science."

Professor Barona also gave lectures in the intensive course presented by the same Group on November 20 and 21.