Mari Dezawa
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, JAPAN
Biography
Mari Dezawa is graduated from Chiba University School of Medicine in 1989, and got PhD degree in 1995 at the same institution. She moved to Yokohama City University as Assistant Professor of Dept Anatomy in 2000 where she started to work with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). After moving to Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine as Associate Professor in 2003, she discovered methods to induce neurons and skeletal muscle cells from human MSCs. In 2008, she became Professor and Chair of Department of Stem Cell Biology and Histology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, where she discovered muse cells (PNAS, 2010, PNAS, 2011, Nat Protocol, 2013, JASN, 2017).
Abstract
Abstract : Endogenous reparative muse cells may provide novel therapeutic approaches