Dr.Tomoya Uchimura (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Sakurai lab) in Intractable Muscular Disesase Project received a recipient of Travel & Merit Award by International Scoiety of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 2020. Intractable Muscular Disease Project is developing novel therapeutic drugs for intractable muscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy and investigate muscular disease models using patient-derived iPSCs as a tool for disease modeling and drug screening.
Presentation title: Recapitulating functional phenotypes of DMD using patient-derived iPSCs
ISSCR 2020 Virtual, 23-27 June
ISSCR website:https://www.isscr.org/meetings-events/annual-meetings/isscr-2020-virtual
Project details:https://www.takeda.com/49de3e/siteassets/system/what-we-do/t-cira/research/hidetoshi-sakurai_ever2.pdf