[NFS-04] Neuroscience Frontier Symposium 04「A new era of cell and gene therapy for neurological diseases」

[NFS-04-5] iPS cell-based therapy for Parkinson's disease

Jun Takahashi (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Japan)

Jun Takahashi is a director and professor 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 started his career as a neurosurgeon at Kyoto University Hospital. After earning 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 on neural stem cells. After returning to Kyoto University Hospital, he conducted functional neurosurgery, including deep brain stimulation and research on stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease. In 2012, he became a full professor at CiRA, pursuing iPS cell-based therapies. 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 Parkinson’s disease using iPS cells in 2018.