Stem cell biology and its potentials for future medicine

Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Monday, July 30, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 240 Physical Sciences Building
Hosted By Camilla Forsberg

Hiro Nakauchi obtained his M.D. from Yokohama City University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in immunology from University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine.  He isolated CD8 genes during his postdoc period in the Leonard Herzenberg lab at Stanford University. He then worked on hematopoietic stem cells in his laboratory at the RIKEN research institute in Japan. In 1994, he became Professor of Immunology in the University of Tsukuba, where he determined the phenotype of mouse hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and succeeded in reconstituting bone marrow from single HSCs. Since April 2002, he has been a Professor of Stem Cell Therapy in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo (IMSUT). In 2008, he was appointed as a director of newly established Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in IMSUT. Goals of his work are to clarify the mechanism of stem cell self-renewal and to contribute to cell and gene therapy and regenerative medicine.