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Speaker - Keiichi Fukuda
Keiichi
Fukuda
MD, PhD, Heartseed Inc., Japan

Keiichi Fukuda is pioneer of the cardiac regeneration field and has been at its cutting edge for the past 20 years. He has made several contributions to the regenerative medicine of the failing heart using iPS cells. He developed novel method to purify the cardiomyocytes by metabolic selection. He became Chief Professor of the Department of Cardiology in Keio University, and published more than 800 top-ranked papers. He had established bio-venture company “Heartseed Inc.” in 2015 and became CEO. He is now examining the clinical trial for transplanting human iPS-derived regenerated cardiomyocytes to the patients with congestive heart failure.