Prof. Yasuhiko
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Importance of Biomaterial Technology
to Enhance Natural Healing-Potential
for Regenerative Medicine
Abstract
Regenerative medicine is a new therapeutic trial based on the natural-healing potential of the body itself. To realize this therapeutic trial, it is important to enhance the cell ability for proliferation and differentiation which mainly contributes to the body potential of tissue regeneration and repairing. This paper emphasizes scientific and clinical significance of biomaterial technology in regenerative medicine by introducing several concrete examples.
Short biography:
Dr. Yasuhiko Tabata is the Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University and a Special Professor (full-time) of Tabata’s group ”Cell Biotechnology”, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, and guest professors at the Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Engineering of 17 different universities. He received his BD in Polymer Chemistry (1981), Ph.D. (1988) in Technology, D.Med.Sc. (2002), and D.Pharm. (2003) all at Kyoto University. He was a Visiting Scientist at the MIT (Professor Robert Langer) (1991-92). He has published 1,732 scientific papers including 146 book chapters and review articles and has 130 patents. He received the Young Investigator Award (1990), the Scientific Award from the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (2002), the Scientific Award from the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System (2011), Chandra P. Sharma Award of the International Society of Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (2011), the Scientific Award from the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine (2014), Merit Award Winners for Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration, President of Science Council of Japan Award (2016), Outstanding Scientist Award of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society - Asian-Pacific Chapter (TERMIS-AP) (2018), TERMIS-AP Excellent Achievement Award (2022), and several awards.
Dr. Tabata is the president of the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System (JSDDS), the board member of the Japanese Society of Regenerative Medicine (JSRM), the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (JSB), and TERMIS-AP or the councilor of several academic societies. He is a fellow of WBS, TERMIS, CRS) or the New York Academy of Science, AIMBE, and FTERM.
His research is very interdisciplinary in nature and brings together the fields of polymer chemistry, pharmaceutical science, biology, and basic and clinical medicines. His research keywords are biomaterials, drug delivery system (DDS), tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, stem cell technology, and medical diagnostics.
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