Scientific Founders of ReproCELL

Norio Nakatsuji, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University 【Career】 Founding director and professor of Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) Director and professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University Professor at National Institute of Genetics Principal investigator at the Meiji Institute of Health Science Postdoctoral training at Umea University in Sweden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and George Washington University in the USA, and MRC Mammalian Development Unit in UK. Ph.D. from Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Hiromitsu Nakauchi, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo 【Career】 Director and professor, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo Professor, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba RIKEN Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University Stanford University M.D. and Ph.D. from Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Scientific Advisors of ReproCELL

	Atsushi Iwama, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University 【Career】 Professor at Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Lecturer at Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo Lecturer at Tsubuka University Faculty of Medicine Research fellow at Harbard University Faculty of Medicine, Kumamoto University Jichi Medical University Hospital Niigata University Hospital M.D. Ph.D. from Faculty of Medicine, Niigata University
	Takashi Tada, Ph.D. Associate Professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University 【Career】 Associate Professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University Assistant Professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University Assistant Professor at National Institute of Genetics Research Associate at Wellcome CRC (Gurdon) Institute, Cambridge University Ph.D. from Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
	Hirofumi Suemori, Ph.D. Associate Professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University 【Career】 Associate Professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University Research Associate at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University Research Fellow at Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology Ph.D. from Nagoya University Research Fellow at the Meiji Institute of Health Science BSc from Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
	Taeko Naruse, Ph.D. Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University 【Career】 Assistant Professor at Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Research Fellow at Faculty of Medicine, Tokai University Research Fellow at Graduate School of Medicine Ph.D. from Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University Research Fellow at Graduate School of Medicine
	Professor Sian E Harding Sian Harding is Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College. 【Career】 She obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from King’s College, London in 1981, and since then the primary focus of her work has been cardiomyocyte function in the failing heart. This has extended to gene therapy to modulate cardiomyocyte function, and she is Scientific PI for the UK’s first clinical trial on myocardial gene therapy. More recently the scope has extended to the characterisation of cardiomyocytes derived from embryonic stem cells, and their use in cardiac repair, tissue engineering and drug discovery. Professor Harding is Past-President of the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research and Fellow of the AHA, ESC and ISHR. She sits on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Scientific Advisory Board of the PPP “Stem Cells for Safer Medicines”.