Six young faculty members from Indonesia (Gadjah Mada University, Universitas Airlangga, and Institut Teknologi Bandung) and Thailand (Mahidol University) have come to the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Osaka, under the Visiting Scholar Invitation Program supported by the Nishimura International Scholarship Foundation. They will conduct research in the laboratories for the next 4 to 6 months.