Establishment of International Regeneration Research Network

为了建立国际合作网络，有效地促进对再生基本机制的研究，促进基于组织器官再生能力的临床技术的发展，本研究计划从1998年到2000年进行了三年的研究，取得了以下成果。由于再生研究在亚洲以及除日本、印度和俄罗斯以外的中东周边地区并不普遍和进展较慢，我们在日本设立一个中心来管理这些领域的国际合作是合理和有效的，并与印度和俄罗斯的领先研究人员保持密切的沟通。巴塞尔大学能够担负起促进欧洲研究合作的关键科学家的责任，与再生领域的国际领先者之一、伦敦大学的杰里米·布罗克斯教授保持着密切的沟通。对于北美、南美和澳大利亚，美国代顿大学的P.A.Tsonis教授与加拿大和澳大利亚的领先再生研究人员保持着密切的关系，并已经与日本的研究人员进行了合作，他可以作为关键人物来指导和润滑这些领域富有成效的国际合作。此后，在熊本大学分子胚胎学和遗传学研究所设立了主要中心，我们将有效地促进国际合作，通过与活跃的研究人员的相互合作来接近再生的机制。京都大学前沿医学研究所和日本其他相关机构。

To establish the international collaboration net-work, which can effectively promote basic approaches to the fundamental mechanism of regeneration and contribute to development of clinical technologies based on regenerative capacities of tissues and organs, this research project was planned, conducted for three years from 1998 to 2000 and resulted in the followings.Because studies of regeneration have not been so common and less progressed in Asia and its surrounding regions including Middle East except Japan, India and Russia, it is reasonable and effective for us to set up a center in Japan to manage international collaborations in these areas, keeping close communication with leading researchers of India and Russia.Professor Volker Schmid, University of Basel is able enough to take the responsibility as a key scientist to promote research collaborations in : Europe, keeping close communication with Professor Jeremy Brockes, University of London, who is one of international leaders in the field of regeneration.For north and south America and Australia, Professor P.A.Tsonis, University of Dayton, USA, who has kept close relation with leading regeneration researchers in both Canada and Australia and been already conducting collaborations with Japanese researchers, can manage as a key person to direct and lubricate fruitful international collaborations in these areas.Hereafter, setting up the main center in the Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, we will effectively promote international collaborations to approach to the mechanism of regeneration through mutual cooperation with active researchers belonging to. Institute for Frontier Medical Science, Kyoto University and other relating institutions in Japan.