LINK-J Symposium "The Frontiers of Drug Discovery"

登壇者略歴

Hitoshi Kuboniwa (Ph.D., Chairman of new therapeutic modality platform research group, Japan Bioindustry Association)

He is the chairman of the management committee of Japan Bioindustry Association and a corporate advisor of Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. He worked for Chugai in discovery research, business development and manufacturing. He served as senior vice president of pharmaceutical technology division responsible for both biologics and small molecules manufacturing. He obtained a Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in polymer chemistry and worked for NIH/NIDDK in bioNMR field.

Hiroshi Kawamoto (M.D., Ph.D, Professor, Laboratory of Immunology, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)

Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, in 1986, and worked as a physician in hospital for three years. He took his doctor course in Hematology department of Kyoto University from 1989, and moved to Chest Disease Institute (currently Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences: IFLMS) in 1994, where he started to study the early hematopoiesis. In 2001, he became an assistant professor in Faculty of Medicine, and then promoted to be a team leader of RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology in 2002. In RIKEN, he started to develop immune cell therapy using regenerated lymphocytes. He moved to IFLMS in Kyoto University as a professor in 2012.

Minoru Ko (M.D., Ph.D, Professor, Keio University School of Medicine / Co-Founder, Elixirgen Therapeutics, Inc.)

Former Senior Investigator and Section Chief, Developmental Genomics and Aging Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health.

Haru Morita (President and CEO, Modalis Therapeutics)

Haru is the exuberant entrepreneur as well as the dynamic investor whose leadership and strategic vision drives Modalis (listed on TSE as 4883) toward success from his co-foundation in 2016. He brings more than 25 years of biotech industry leadership experience, including CEO of REGiMMUNE, a company he founded to leverage the power of regulatory T cells to manage difficult-to-treat immune conditions such as GVHD. Before that he took a leading role in business development at Y’s Therapeutics Inc. that aspired for a novel biotherapeutics using antibody technology. As a scientist, Haru played a pioneering role in the research and development of thrombopoietin (aka TPO or MGDF) at KIRIN (merged into Kyowa-Kirin). He acquired extensive business and consulting experiences at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (merged into Strategy & of PwC) where he engaged in numerous projects across various industry sectors.

Joseph Ledsam (M.D., Clinician Scientist, Google Japan)

Dr Joseph Ledsam is a medical doctor and Clinician Scientist who joined Google DeepMind in 2016 to apply AI to clinical medicine. During that time he co-led multiple projects across medical imaging and EHR, leading to multiple Nature and Nature Medicine publications. While at DeepMind he founded the Genomics team, focusing on gene expression prediction, before moving to Google Japan to build up a new set of health and science projects.

Hideyuki Okano (M.D., Ph.D, Chairman of the Board, LINK-J/ Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine/ Professor, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine)

Dr. Hideyuki Okano is Dean of the Keio University Graduate School of Medicine and Professor of the Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine.He earned his M.D. (1983) at Keio University School of Medicine and Ph.D. (1988) in Medical Science at Keio University. He was Instructor at the Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine (1983-1985) and the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University (1985-1989). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1989-1993) and Instructor at the Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo (1992-1994).
He was Professor at the Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba (1994-1997) and the Department of Neuroscience, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine (1997-2001).
Dr. Okano has been Professor of the Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine since 2001 to date and served as Dean at the Keio University School of Medicine (2015-2017).
Dr. Okano’s research focuses on the Molecular Neurobiology, Development and Regeneration of the central nervous system and the Modeling human Diseases using iPS cells, Brain Science of Non-human Primate. Currently, he is the President of Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine and Japanese Society for Neurochemistry.

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Hosted by: Life Science Innovation Network Japan Inc. (LINK-J)
Supported by: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare / Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology / Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)

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Person in charge: Fukushi, Hotta, Shinozaki
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