Tatsuya Shimizu, Director and Professor, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women’s Medical University

I am now director & professor of Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women’s Medical University (TWMU). I graduated from Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo and got medical doctor (M.D.) in 1992. After two-year clinical training, I made a specialty of cardiovascular medicine including catheterization and got Ph.D in 1999. After that, I moved to TWMU and started the research of tissue engineering based on “cell sheet technology”. Cell sheet technology have been applied to clinic for several types of regenerative therapies and to 3D tissue fabrication for future advanced therapy and drug screening. My recent work is engineering thick vascularized tissues, 3-D tissue model systems for heart, liver and kidney, additionally, automatic tissue fabrication system.