Syoichi Tashiro is a Lecturer at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Mitaka, and a Lecturer (part-time) at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Japan. He is also a Japanese board-certified Rehabilitation Physician and instructor, Stroke Rehabilitation Physician, Regenerative Medicine Physician, and Clinical Neurophysiologist. He received his medical degree from Keio University School of Medicine in 2006. He completed the senior residential specialized program for Rehabilitation Medicine at Keio University School of Medicine from 2008 to 2012. He was a research and teaching associate in Rehabilitation Medicine at Keio University School of Medicine from 2009 to 2015; he received a doctorate in Medicine from Keio University Graduate School of Medicine in 2015. He was a guest researcher at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, from 2017 to 2018. He became a lecturer on Rehabilitation Medicine at Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine in 2020. He has published 25 full-length manuscripts, invited reviews, and 3 short reports, of which he is the first author for 14.
Shinsuke Shibata (M.D., Ph.D.) is currently working at the Niigata University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences. Author of over 200 scientific papers, his skills and expertise include electron microscopy, live cell imaging, molecular cloning, gene regulation, signaling pathways, immunofluorescence microscopy, stem cells, immuno-electron microscopy, morphogenesis, and CLSM.
Narihito Nagoshi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Keio University in 2009. He served as a medical doctor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Murayama Clinical Center from April 2009 to June 2013 and then as a chief medical doctor at the Spinal Cord Injury Center of Hokkaido Chuo Rosai Hospital from July to December 2013. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Division of Genetics and Development, Toronto Western Hospital Institute from January 2014 to January 2016 and then joined Keio University School of Medicine in January 2016. His major field is spine and spinal cord surgery. His research goal is to realize regenerative medicine for spinal cord injury through clinics and research.
Liang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine. He graduated from Capital Medical University School of Medicine in 2005 and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2015 from The Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University. He specializes in rehabilitation medicine and regenerative medicine for spinal cord injury.
Shin Yamada graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1997. After serving as a lecturer at Keio University, he worked at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from 2010 to 2013, where he was involved in space biomedical research and the health management of astronauts. He moved to Kyorin University in 2013 and then became a professor of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2020.
Tetsuya Tsuji is Head of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, at Keio University School of Medicine. He graduated from the School of Medicine, Keio University, in 1990 and then served as a resident in
Rehabilitation Medicine at Keio University Hospital from 1990 to 1992, where he became a senior resident until 1996. From 1996 to 1998, he worked at Saitama Rehabilitation Center and worked as head of Rehabilitation Medicine from 2002 to 2005. He served as a research fellow at the Institute of Neurology,
University College of London, in Clinical Neurophysiology from May 2000 to April 2001. He served as an assistant professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Keio University School of Medicine, where he is a professor now. His research interests include cancer rehabilitation medicine, angiology, clinical neurophysiology, and exercise physiology.
Masaya Nakamura is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. at Keio University School of Medicine. He is also a Member of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Keio University School of Medicine. He was an Assistant professor and Associate professor at the Keio University School of Medicine. He received the First award from the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine and the 51st Baelz Prize in 2014.
Hideyuki Okano is a Japanese physiology professor and the current dean of Keio University School of Medicine. He is also the team leader of the Laboratory for Marmoset Neural Architecture at RIKEN Brain Science Institute. His lab is the first in the world to produce transgenic marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) with germline transmission. He is a director of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1983. He worked for Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine between 1989 and 1993. He was a professor at the University of Tsukuba and Osaka University before returning to his home university in 2001. He won the Distinguished Scientist Award from the University of Catania, School of Pharmacy, in 2004 and the Erwin von Bälz Award from Boehringer Ingelheim in 2014.