[HT-10] Hot Topics 10 Strategy toward regenerative medicine in neurological disorders using stem cells - the current situation and issues

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^○Ole Isacson, Teresia M. Osborn, James M. Schumacher, Penelope J. Hallett (Neuroregeneration Institute, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA)

Dr. Ole Isacson (MD-PhD) is Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience) Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and the founding and current director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital. Prof. Isacson’s laboratory elucidates biological processes, mechanisms and treatments of neuronal vulnerability in several neurodegenerative diseases, which has resulted in new biotechnologies for restorative treatments using molecular, gene therapy and cell replacement methods; including stem cell derived patient derived neurons. Prof. Isacson is faculty of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and member of the Michael J. Fox Foundation Executive Scientific Advisory Board (2014-2016). Dr Isacson received The Lindahl Investigator Award from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Bernard Sanberg Memorial Prize for Brain Repair. Prof. Isacson was President of the International Cell Transplant Society (TTS), (2007-2008), and served as a US government FDA member at the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) (2014-2016); and the CSO of Pfizer’s Neuroscience Division (2016-2017). Prof. Isacson is the author or co-author of ~ 400 scientific research articles and 3 books in his field, and the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (2010-2016). Prof. Isacson was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.