Selected Papers from the JSOPB 2021-2022

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a collection of selected papers from the 47th Japanese Society for Organ Preservation and Biology (JSOPB) (http://jognbio.umin.jp/). The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) is providing an opportunity to publish selected data presented at the annual meeting.

JSOPB was founded in 1974 for the study of organ preservation and developed widely in the 1990s with the participation of researchers in various fields of medicine, pharmacology, engineering, veterinary medicine, and basic science. Currently, the JSOPB has more than 700 members and is run under the direction of Prof. Takashi Kenmochi, the president of the JSOPB.

Excellent presentations conducted at the 47th annual meeting of the JSOPB held 12–13 November 2021, in Tokyo, Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Shohei Fuchinoue (Department of Surgery, Kidney Center, Hidaka Hospital, Gunma, Japan), were selected and given an opportunity to be published in this Special Issue of JCM.

One of the vital missions of the annual meeting of the JSOPB is to exchange new research outcomes and create new therapeutic concepts. Therefore, the aim of the present Special Issue as follows:

• Molecular and cellular biology of organ preservation and transplantation;
• Biology of pharmacology;
• Organ/tissue engineering;
• Stem cell therapy;
• Stem cell biology.

Prof. Dr. Hirofumi Noguchi
Prof. Dr. Takashi Kenmochi
Guest Editors

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