A Health Informatics Infrastructure for a New Era

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Date

November 8, 2014 – November 9, 2014

Venue

Conference room of Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University
2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8573, Japan
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Invited Researchers

• Lorenz Poellinger (Karolinska Institute)
• Mark Divers (Karolinska Institute)
• Randall Johnson (Karolinska Institute)
• Arne Holmgren (Karolinska Institute)
• Jon Lundberg (Karolinska Institute)
• Lucia Coppo (Karolinska Institute)
• Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University)
• Masaomi Nangaku (University of Tokyo)
• Motoko Yanagita (Kyoto University)
• Tove Rylander Rudqvist (Karolinska Institute Biobank)
• James Thompson (Karolinska Institute Biobank)
• Jun Lu (Karolinska Institute)

Time Schedule

Sat. November 8, 2014

12:00 – 13:10

Reception

13:15 – 13:25

Opening Remarks Masayuki Yamamoto (Tohoku University)

13:25 – 13:30

Greetings from Tohoku Forum for Creativity Liam Baird (Program Coordinator of TFC)

13:30 – 17:10

Session I: Clinical Application and Management of Biobanks

13:30 – 14:10

Session I
Biobanking value: reflections from the Swedish experience Mark Divers (KI Biobank)

14:10 – 14:40

Session I
Aim and progress of Tohoku Medical Megabank project Masayuki Yamamoto (ToMMo & Tohoku University)

14:40 – 15:05

Session I
Opportunities and challenges with medical biobanking Tove Rylander Rudqvist (KI Biobank)

15:30 – 15:55

Session I
High throughput developments in medical biobanking James Thompson (KI Biobank)

15:55 – 16:20

Session I
Biobank construction based on cohort studies after the seismic disaster of 2011 Naoko Minegishi (ToMMo)

16:20 – 16:45

Session I
Data management and bioinformatics of thousands Japanese whole-genome project Masao Nagasaki (ToMMo)

16:45 – 17:20

Session I
Perspectives towards the development of personalized medicine by the ToMMo genome cohort Jun Yasuda (ToMMo)

17:20 – 18:00

Tour around Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization

Sun. November 9, 2014

9:30 – 12:30

Session II: Oxygen and Medicine

9:30 – 10:10

Session II
Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation in hypoxia and cancer Lorenz Poellinger (Karolinska Institute & National University of Singapore)

10:10 – 10:35

Session II
A novel pharmacotherapy of preeclampsia Nobuyuki Takahashi (Tohoku University)

10:35 – 11:05

Session II
Drug discovery in kidney disease - From serendipity to rationality Toshio Miyata (Tohoku University)

11:20 – 12:00

Session II
The role of HIF isoforms in the physiology of hypoxia Randall Johnson (Karolinska Institute & University of Cambridge)

12:00 – 12:30

Session II
Hypoxia as the appropriate and realistic therapeutic target in kidney disease Masaomi Nangaku (University of Tokyo)

13:30 – 17:30

Session III: Redox and Diseases

13:30 – 14:10

Session III
Redox regulation and signaling by thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems Arne Holmgren (Karolinska Institute)

14:10 – 14:40

Session III
Renal fibrosis and anemia: cause, trigger and plasticity Motoko Yanagita (Kyoto University)

14:40 – 15:05

Session III
Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems in relation to superoxide dismutase Jun Lu (Karolinska Institute)

15:05 – 15:35

Session III
tRNA metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction Takaaki Abe (Tohoku University)

15:55 – 16:20

Session III
Glutathione and Grx2 in Alzheimers disease Lucia Coppo (Karolinska Institute)

16:20 – 16:50

Session III
Creating the kidney in vitro Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University)

16:50 – 17:30

Session III
Inorganic nitrate and nitrite in health and disease Jon Lundberg (Karolinska Institute)

17:30 – 17:40

Closing Remarks Susumu Satomi (President of Tohoku University)

Poster

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Contact

Dr. Norio Suzuki
E-mail:sunorio＊med.tohoku.ac.jp (change ＊ to @)
※Registration is not required to join this event. All researchers are free to attend this symposium.