Taito Matsuda received his M.D. from the Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Kyushu University in 2015. Subsequently, he served as a teaching assistant at Kyushu University and the JSPS research fellowship at Nagoya City University. Since October 2023, he has worked as a lecturer at the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Additionally, he holds a membership in the Japanese Neuroscience Society and the Japanese Society for Epigenetics. His research keywords include hippocampus, adult neurogenesis,
kinase assay, neural stem cells, and neuronal differentiation.
Kinichi Nakashima is a Professor in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Kyushu University in 1995. He did a postdoc at Osaka University and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (1995-1997) and became an assistant professor at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 1998. He then became an associate professor at Kumamoto University in 2000. He moved to the Salk Institute as a research fellow (2002-2004), and became a professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) and obtained the present position in 2013. Dr. Nakashima’s research focuses on neural cell regulation by cytokines and epigenetic programs, and its therapeutic application to regenerative medicine.
