九州大学病院 矯正歯科

日米研究インスティチュートUSJI Week（2013年9月6日 Washington D.C.）において、 “Event 5: Contribution of U.S.-Japan Exchange of Researchers in Development of the Molecular Basis of Dental and Maxillofacial Regenerative Medicine Leading Collaboration among South-East Asian Countries and U.S.-Japan”

高橋一郎先生がモデレータを、春山直人先生がスピーカーを務められました。

Abstract

Cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) is the most common congenital craniofacial anomaly in the world. The prevalence of CLP ranges 1 out of 500 to 700 all over the world with some regional variation. Huge amount of medical resources are needed to treat these patients to habilitate the deficient function, such as speech, eating and breathing because of the tooth, bone, muscle and skin deficiency. So far, those patients are mainly treated with symptomatic treatment which would not provide sufficient outcome. Some of the patients can access to current treatment modality in the developed countries, while those who in the developing countries would not.

On the one hand, remarkable development of regenerative medicine based on the research outcome of molecular biomedical science has been revealed to overcome those problems. Specifically, U.S.-Japan exchange of researchers has largely contributed to the development of regenerative medicine, which will be enhanced more and more in the near future. Recently, exchange of researchers and dentist among south-east Asian countries and Japan has become more active than before. On the basis of this background, further and strong activation of these relationship in pan-pacific region is expected. In the present seminar, we would like to demonstrate the present conditions and problems.

Moderator

Ichiro Takahashi, Operating Adviser, U.S.-Japan Research Institute / Professor, Kyushu University

Speakers

Naoto Haruyama, Assistant Professor, Kyushu University

Yoshihide Mori, Professor, Kyushu University

Kazuaki Nonaka, Professor, Kyushu University

Yoshihiko Yamada, Chief and Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health

Haruyoshi Yamaza, Assistant Professor, Kyushu University