講演情報
[S-36-5]ALS研究と臨床試験の活性化に向けて
狩野 修, 渋川 茉莉, 平山 剛久 (東邦大学医学部内科学講座 神経内科学分野)
Dr. Osamu Kano is currently a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Neurology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine. He completed his medical degree and PhD in Neurology at Toho University. He continued to develop his skills as a neurologist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, and NTT East Corporation Kanto Medical Center. He has been a postdoctoral researcher since 2007 under Professor Stanley Appel at Houston Methodist Hospital, where he studied the pathology of ALS using model mice. After returning to Japan in 2011, he focused on identifying biomarkers from peripheral blood in ALS patients to promote future clinical trials. His ALS clinic became the first in Asia to be certified as a NEALS site in 2020. He aims to work with overseas consortiums to conduct efficient clinical trials globally.