Rinshoken 15 years of research

Rinshoken 15 years of research - Tamio Yamakawa (red.)

aking this opportunity, I would like to briefly introduce the background of this institute and the symposium. As you may know, IMSUT was established by Prof. Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato in 1892, 123 years ago, as the Institute of Infectious Diseases (IID). We then changed the name of the institute from IID to IMSUT, the Institute of Medical Science, in response to the greatly improved medical and public health conditions in Japan. Since then, in addition to infectious diseases, we started to integrate several new fields of medical science into IMSUT. These include cancer biology, human genome science, experimental medicine and systems biology, translational research and regenerative medicine. Now, IMSUT has three Basic Departments, six project-oriented Research Centers and an affiliated Research Hospital, which is the only research institute affiliated hospital in Japan. One of the six research centers in IMSUT is the Center for Regenerative Medicine, which is led by Prof. Dr. Hiromitsu Nakauchi at IMSUT. He is also a cross-appointed professor at Stanford University, California, USA.