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On 19 February, JSPS’s Washington Office held a symposium with the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Johns Hopkins University. Entitled “Aging vs. Regenerative Medicine: How Much Can Stem Cells Do?,” it was venued at NIA in Baltimore, Maryland. The basic questions addressed in this symposium were as follows: As all systems decline with aging, why don’t stem cells repair deficits, and how are species able to survive if germ cells age. The event was organized by Dr. Minoru Ko, chair of the symposium’s program committee and chief of the Developmental Genomics and Aging Section at NIA.
The symposium opened with remarks by Dr. Hirotaka Sugawara, director of the JSPS Washington Office, and Dr. Jonathan Bagger, vice provost of Johns Hopkins University. Before starting the sessions, Dr. David Schlessinger, chief of the Human Genetics Section at NIA, delivered the keynote speech titled “The Molecular Bases of Aging.” Attended by some 170 people, the symposium was addressed by three researchers from Japan and six from the US. - JSPS Washington Office  |
