Kiminobu Sugaya
University of Central Florida, USA
Biography
Kiminobu Sugaya is a Professor of Medicine in Burnett School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida (UCF) since 2004. He is a Director of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Alliance of UCF, a Chair of Neuroscience Consortium for Central Florida and a Chair of Central Florida Chapter of Society for Neuroscience. He earned BSM and PhD from the Science University of Tokyo. He received a Post-doctoral training from Dr. Ezio Giacobini, who built the base for the current cholinesterase Alzheimer’s disease therapies, at the Southern University of Illinois. He moved to the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997 where he became Associate Professor. He has further expanded his research area to the use of stem cell. His publication regarding improvement of memory in the aged animal by stem cell transplantation was reported Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC and other media in all over the world.
Abstract
Abstract : Stem cell based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases under the pathological condition