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^○Jun Takahashi (Kyoto University, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Japan)

Jun Takahashi is a professor and deputy director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from the Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine in 1986 and thereafter started his career as a neurosurgeon at Kyoto University Hospital. After he earned his Ph.D. from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Salk Institute (Dr. Fred Gage), CA, U.S.A., where he started research work on neural stem cells. After returning to Kyoto University Hospital, he conducted functional neurosurgery including deep brain stimulation and also research work on stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease (PD). In 2012, he became a full professor at CiRA, pursuing stem cell therapies for Parkinson’s diseasePD patients. As a physician-scientist, he has laid the groundwork for the clinical application of iPS cells, and started the world’s first clinical trial for PD using iPS cells in 2018.