KGRI Lecture Series: (December 4, 2017) "What is Important for Demonstrating International Leadership? - Incorporating the Forefront of Aging and Longevity Research"
Event Date
Event Venue
November 21, 2017
The Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI) holds lectures by inviting leading researchers and educators from Japan and abroad to promote international research and educational exchange.
This time, we will welcome Professor Shin-ichiro Imai from Washington University in the United States to give a lecture titled "What is Important for Demonstrating International Leadership? - Incorporating the Forefront of Aging and Longevity Research."
Date and Time: Monday, December 4, 2017, 16:30–17:30
Venue: Lounge, 1st floor, Center for Integrated Medical Research, Shinanomachi Campus, Keio University
Co-hosted by: Keio University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Global Research Institute (KGRI)
Eligibility: Undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers of the university
Language: Japanese
Other: Free admission, no prior registration required
Lecture Abstract:
Japanese society is currently facing rapid super-aging and a declining birthrate, raising concerns that these trends will cause numerous major social problems in the near future. To devise solutions to these problems, it is an urgent task to understand the fundamental mechanisms of aging and longevity and to establish effective anti-aging methodologies based on that understanding. The speaker has been conducting research on the mechanisms of aging and longevity in mammals in Japan and the United States for 30 years and has been a leader at the forefront of aging and longevity research. Drawing from this experience, this lecture will discuss what it means to "demonstrate international leadership" and what is important for doing so, including insights from the speaker's own research. It will also explore how Japan can become a global role model as a "nation of longevity."
Profile of Professor Shin-ichiro Imai:
Graduated from the Keio University School of Medicine in 1989. Received his Ph.D. from the Keio University Graduate School of Medicine in 1995. From 1997, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and associate in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Guarente at MIT. In 2001, he established his own laboratory in the Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he became a professor in 2013.
He is a leading figure in the world of longevity medicine research and is one of the discoverers of sirtuins, known as longevity-related genes. He has mentored many young researchers from Keio who have studied at Washington University, and he continues to play a central role in ongoing international collaborative research between Washington University and Keio University.
For inquiries regarding this event, please contact the Shinanomachi International Office.
ic-shinanomachi@adst.keio.ac.jp