A private university research branding project in which the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will give priority support to private universities that under the leadership of the president, based on the unique research of the university, and are making efforts to greatly develop the uniqueness of the entire university. Of this branding project carried out in 2016, it is classified as "research that contributes to the development of national or international economic and social development, and the development of science and technology by establishing cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research bases." There were 198 applications from all over Japan for Type B (global expansion type), and 40 schools were selected after rigorous screening. Azabu University, which proposed a world-leading research project called "Realization of a human health society through the creation of animal symbiotic science-Global symbiotic system" One Health "-", is one of the selected schools.

　At Azabu University, which consists of 35 faculties and 2019 departments with specialized education and keywords of "vegetarians," "animals," "health," "food," and "environment," "Global Symbiosis-Aiming for the Coexistence of Humans, Animals, and the Environment-" With the research and education philosophy of "," as a university-wide initiative, we are currently promoting this research project with the ultimate goal of establishing the Azabu University brand, "a university that sciences the coexistence of humans and animals."Approximately 29% of the faculty members of the entire university participate, and the purpose of advancing this research project is to connect the results obtained through the research to the construction of the university's research brand. An international symposium on this theme was held on the day.

　At this symposium, cutting-edge research results obtained from research projects undertaken since 2016 were presented.At the center of this was to rethink humans from the perspective of "whether coexistence with animals can provide human health," and to look at the relationship from the perspectives of bacterial flora, symbiosis, and immunity. Four faculty members from the university and four researchers from Japan and abroad who have been leading the world on this subject took the stage in the lecture.

　Following the greeting from President Masao Asari, the morning session was a Japanese session by an on-campus faculty member.The first speaker was Associate Professor Masato Minami, who is in charge of the wildlife laboratory at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and the title of the presentation was "Microbial research for building a symbiotic system by recycling and effectively utilizing wild animals."With the cooperation of Komoro City, Nagano Prefecture, this project is a study to build a new symbiotic system with sika deer, whose population is increasing and the impact on the ecosystem is enormous as well as agricultural damage. be.Specifically, we have verified various effects of pet food using venison, which was developed for the effective use of captured deer, from a microbiological point of view, and conducted clinical experiments.It was announced that the company is aiming to increase the employment of resource recovery facilities while increasing the added value and marketing the product widely.