[Pr] President Lecture

[Pr-1] The Mission of Neurology - Its Past, Present, and Future

^○Ryosuke Takahashi (Department of Neurology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine)

Ryosuke Takahashi, MD, PhD graduated from Kyoto University, Japan in 1983. He received his training of neurology in Kyoto University Hospital. In 1989, he started basic researches as a staff scientist at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neurosciences, then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Jon C. Reed at the Sanford-Burnham Institute, California, USA. He became Laboratory Head at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, in 1999. In 2005, he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the President of Japanese Society of Neurology. He also serves as the Vice President of Japanese Society for Neuroscience. He is on the editorial board of Movement Disorders, Journal of Neural Transmission and Molecular Brain. He has published more than 400 original articles in peer-reviewed international journals.
His major research interests are the molecular pathogenetic mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease and its related disorders and development of disease-modifying therapies against these disorders.