The 5th Japan-Lithuania Joint Life Sciences Symposium
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25 September, 2018
Event Program
The 5th Japan-Lithuania Joint Life Sciences Symposium
Registration in advance is required by September 19, 2018. This event is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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– Program –
Date and time: September 25, 2018, 10:00-17:10
Venue: Research Council of Lithuania (Gedimino pr. 3, Vilnius)
Organizers: Research Council of Lithuania
JSPS Stockholm Office
Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to Japan
Tuesday 25 September
09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:20 Opening Addresses
H.E. Ambassador Gediminas Varvuolis, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to Japan
H.E. Ambassador Shiro Yamasaki, Embassy of Japan in Lithuania
10:20-11:00 Role of the activin protein for organs formation in vertebrate’s development
Prof. Dr. Makoto Asashima
Academic Adviser of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Specially Research Professor of the Strategic Innovation and Research Center, Teikyo University
Presentation slides (6MB)
11:00-11:40 Transplanted limb bud as a model for skeleton pattern formation studies
Prof. Renata Šimkūnaitė-Rizgelienė, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Vilnius University
11:40-12:20 Reconstructing the kidney from human iPS cells
Prof. Ryuichi Nishinakamura, Director of the Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:00 Stems cell therapies in the prevention chronic kidney diseases: European challenges in translational research
Prof. Romaldas Mačiulaitis, Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
14:00-14:40 Cartilage repair in the knee joint
Dr. Mitsuo Ochi, President of Hiroshima University
14:40-15:20 Pre-clinical and clinical possibilities to repair the articular cartilage in LUHS
Prof. Rimtautas Gudas, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:20 Emerging roads to novel therapeutics/prevention approaches for Alzheimer disease
Prof. Taisuke Tomita, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
16:20-17:00 Neurotoxicity of tau and Alzheimer‘s disease
Prof. Vilmantė Borutaitė, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
17:00-17:10 Closing Addresses
Dr. Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of the JSPS Stockholm Office
Dr. Valdemaras Razumas, Chairman of the Research Council of Lithuania
Report:
https://www.lmt.lt/en/lithuanian-and-japanese-scientists-are-united-by-an-aspiration-to-increase-the-healthy-and-good-quality-lifetime-of-society/2971
(by Research Council of Lithuania)
