LINK-J & UC San Diego Joint Webinar Series #6 with Keio University "New Horizons in Regenerative Medicine and Computational Neurobiology" Session3

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For the sixth in the LINK-J &UC San Diego Joint Webinar Series, Professor Mark Tuszynski from UC San Diego and Professor Junichi Ushiba from Keio University will discuss new developments in regenerative medicine and brain-machine interfaces for spinal cord injury and stroke. Professors Andrew McCulloch and Hideyuki Okano from both institutions will moderate a discussion.

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Date and Time:

Wed, Apr 21, 2021 5:00pm-6:15pm [PDT] /Apr 22 [JST]

Venue:

Online (Zoom Webinar)

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Program

Japan time	Pacific time	Agenda
9:00-9:05	5:00-5:05	Welcome - Akihiko Soyama, LINK-J and Miwako Waga, UC San Diego Remarks - Dr. Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University Remarks and Speaker Introduction - Dr. Andrew McCulloch, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine; Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UC San Diego
9:05-9:35	5:05-5:35	Presentation – "Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury" Dr. Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, Director, UCSD Translational Neurosciences Institute; Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences, UC San Diego
9:35-10:00	5:35-6:00	Presentation – "Brain-Machine interaction facilitates neural reorganization in post-stroke brains" Dr. Junichi Ushiba, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
10:00-10:14	6:00-6:14	Q&A and Discussion - moderated by Drs. Okano & McCulloch
10:14-10:15	6:14-6:15	Closing Remarks - A. Soyama

Biography

Dr. Andrew McCulloch, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine; Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UC San Diego

Dr. Andrew McCulloch is Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine at the University of California San Diego and Director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine. He earned his bachelor (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Engineering Science at the University of Auckland and joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1987. He directs the UCSD Interfaces Graduate Training Program and the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Specialization in Multi-Scale Biology. Dr. McCulloch served as Vice Chair of the Bioengineering Department from 2002 to 2005 and Chair from 2005 to 2008. He is also a member of Qualcomm Institute, the Center for Research on Biological Systems, and a Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Dr. Hideyuki Okano, Dean, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University

[Education]
1988: Ph.D. (Dr. of Medical Science), Keio University
1983: M.D. Keio University School of Medicine
[Employment]
2017~ Present: Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine. 2015~2017: Dean, Keio University School of Medicine.
2017~Present: Visiting Professor, Peking University, China. 2009~Present: Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia.
2008~Present: Honorary Professor, the Queenland Brain Institute, Australia.
2007~ 2015: Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine.
2001~Present: Professor, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine.
1997-2001: Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
1994-1997: Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
1992-1994: Instructor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo.
1989-1993: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
1985-1989: Instructor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University.
1983-1985: Instructor, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine.

Dr. Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, Director, UCSD Translational Neurosciences Institute; Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences, UC San Diego

Mark Tuszynski is a Professor of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, and the Founding Director of the UCSD Translational Neuroscience Institute. He received his undergraduate and M.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), clinical training in neurology at Cornell University Medical Center in New York, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Tuszynski’s research focuses on central nervous system plasticity in animal models of learning, Alzheimer’s disease and spinal cord injury. He has won 15 research awards and is the author of over 180 scientific and medical publications.

Dr. Junichi Ushiba, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University

Associate Professor Junichi Ushiba, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University Junichi Ushiba graduated from the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology in 2001 and obtained his Ph.D. from the Keio University School of Fundamental Science and Technology in 2004. He was a guest researcher at the Center of Sensory-Motor Interaction at Aalborg University, Denmark, for a 6-month period in 2003 before returning to the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology as a research associate. He was at the Keio Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology from 2014 to 2019, and has been an associate professor at the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biosciences and Informatics since 2012. He is a regular committee member and chair for various conferences and awards, and he has sat on the board of the Japanese Society for Motor Control since 2016 and on the Executive and Scientific Board of the Clinical Brain-Machine Interface (CBMI) Society since 2015. He has also received numerous awards, including winning the Excellence Award at BRAVE 2017.