On February 8, 2021, Gladstone Institutes and the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University held a Kickoff Symposium for the iPS Cell Research Center at Gladstone Institutes. The iPS Cell Research Center at Gladstone Institutes was created in 2019 to promote disruptive, borderless innovation through advanced biomedical research using iPS cells.

Watch the presentations from the symposium. 

Opening Remarks

Deepak Srivastava, MD, President, Gladstone Institutes

Nagahiro Minato, MD, PhD, President, Kyoto University

Toru Kawamura, PhD, Head of Director’s Office and Specially Appointed Professor, CiRA, Kyoto University

Overcoming Diseases by International Collaboration

Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Director and Professor, CiRA, Kyoto University

NAT1-Mediated Protein Translation in Pluripotent Stem Cells

Kiichiro Tomoda, PhD, Research Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Program-Specific Research Center Associate Professor, CiRA, Kyoto University

Cardiac Consequences of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Todd McDevitt, PhD, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes

COVID-19 Research Using iPS Cells and Organoids

Kazuo Takayama, PhD, Junior Associate Professor, CiRA, Kyoto University

Closing Remarks

Benoit Bruneau, PhD, Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease

Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Director and Professor, CiRA, Kyoto University

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