Brain mapping by integrated neurotechnologies for disease studies (Brain/MINDS)

About author:

Prof. Hideyuki Okano graduated from the Keio University School of Medicine, Japan in 1983 and received his Ph.D from the Keyo University in 1988. Currently he is a Dean and Professor at the Department of Physiology at Keio University School of Medicine. Prof. Okano made world history by being the first to discover the existence of neural stem cells in adult brains, providing evidence of the possibility of using these cells in the regeneration of the central nervous system. After researching the differential control mechanisms of neural stem cells using the drosophila fly in the 1990s, Prof. Okano has continued his research through studying the control mechanisms in the neural development of mice and the common marmoset – close in the order of primates to humans.

Prof. Okano serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and The Japan Neuroscience Society and sits on the editorial boards of several leading scientific journals, including Stem Cells, Stem Cells and Development and Cell Stem Cell.