田中明彦教授へ乾杯の挨拶をする桜井本篤氏
3月8日、理事会と諮問委員会合同会議の後、東大の国際関係担当の副学長でありFUTIの理事であった田中明彦教授が、4月1日より日本国際援助機構（JICA）の理事長に就任するのを記念して、レセプションが開かれ、理事、諮問委員、ニューヨークにある卒業生組織の役員、それにFUTIに寄付をされた方数人を加え、25人が招待された。
レセプションはバイオリニスト岩住英美さんヴィオラのジョン・ヴァイダさんによるボフスラヴ・マルテイヌ（1890-1959）作曲の「ヴァイオリンとヴィオラの為の三つのマドリガル、H313」の美しい演奏で始まった。
FUTI 諮問委員長桜井本篤氏の乾杯の音頭でパーテイが始まり、JICAでのチャレンジングな仕事に関して田中氏が挨拶した。
演奏家、ジョン・ヴァイダと岩住英美を紹介する小林久志理事長
その後参加者は、和やかな歓談と、美味しい食事とワインで、楽しい夕べを過ごした。（注：FUTIはその資金を食事や飲み物に費やすことはポリシーとして控えているので、主賓と演奏者以外の参加者は一人70ドルの会費を払った。）
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Akiko Koide (小出明子) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. She is an expert in protein engineering, directed evolution and microbiology with >25 year experience in cutting-edge research. Together with her husband, Professor Shohei Koide, she has established the Monobody system, technology to generate small synthetic binding protein based on fibronectin type III domain that achieves potency that rivals antibodies. She is known as the mother of all Monobodies. In parallel, she has made important contribution to the development of synthetic antibodies, technology to develop antibodies without the use of animals. Using these powerful technologies, she has been developing novel therapeutics against cancer. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo (農学部農芸化学科), Japan, and has published >70 peer-reviewed articles. She is the proud mother of two amazing daughters.
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