Crowdfunding for 'Preserving A-Bomb Victims' Records for Future Generations: Specimen Database Project' reaches its goal!

We are pleased to announce that thanks to your warm support, our crowdfunding for the campaign called "Preserving A-Bomb Victims' Records for Future Generations: Specimen Database Project" has reached JPY 4.5 million, surpassing our initial target of JPY 3.5 million. The campaign ran from July 29 to September 30, 2020.

Once again, thank you very much for all your kindness and support!

The project to digitize the glass slide specimens of A-Bomb Victims is now in progress. This is where the real work begins.

The warm support and encouragement from more than 270 people will be used as the energy for future activities to realize the project. We will not be able to present the results of this project for a while, but we would appreciate your continued support.

Project Overview (*Application period for the crowdfunding has ended)

The Hiroshima University Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine has been conducting research using tissue samples from A-bomb victims. However, the tissue specimens have deteriorated over time, and the world is on the verge of losing these valuable resources.

To make these materials available to the public and to pass them on to future generations, we have decided to carry out a project to digitize the A-bomb victim's glass slide specimens.

We would like to preserve these historically significant resources for the development of research in the coming generations and ensure that interest and awareness about the A-bomb survivors don't fade away.

We appreciate your support in accomplishing these aims.

*Application deadline: Wednesday, September 30th, 2020, 23:00