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Kiminobu Sugaya

Kiminobu Sugaya PhD, MS, BS

Clinical Pharmacology
Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya is a professor of medicine in Burnett School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida (UCF) since 2004. He is a Director of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Alliance of UCF and a Chair of Central Florida Chapter of Society for Neuroscience. He moved from Japan to Mayo Clinic, US as a post doc. in 1992 when he was a lecturer in Science University of Tokyo and he was promoted to an associate consultant in 1994.

Then he moved to University of Illinois at Chicago as an assistant professor in 1997 and got promotied to an associate professor in 2002. He has been conducting stem cell researches to treat neurodegenerative diseases by the adult stem cells. He recently received National Honor Plaque of Panama for exceptional contribution to neuroscience based on his study on stem cell therapies for neurodegenerative diseases from the President of Panama. His publication regarding improvement of memory in the aged animal by stem cell transplantation was reported Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC and other media in all over the world
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