I want to achieve therapeutic application soon! !

The 4th, Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last year to speak at Washington city, in order to make use of the treatment iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells), and complained of the need for US-Japan cooperation .
Touch that clinical trials for practical use of iPS cells is being begins with Japan and the United States, to accelerate the cooperation. Japan and the United States that did not help the patient a man yet ", Yamanaka's as soon as possible therapeutic applications the "he said want to achieve.
The Nobel Prize of this year, Chemistry Prize in Physics Prize in Physiology or Medicine, on the 8th, the 9th day, will be announced in each of 7 days. The lecture was held at the annual meeting private organization that aims to strengthen the Japan-US relationship, "the US-Japan Council".

I want spurred toward the practical use in early clinical trials in cooperation with Japan and the United States because I feel potentially able to save many patients is greater.


昨年ノーベル生理学・医学賞を受賞した京都大の山中伸弥教授が４日、ワシントン市内で講演し、ｉＰＳ細胞（人工多能性幹細胞）を治療に生かすため、日米協力が必要だと訴えた。
　山中さんはｉＰＳ細胞の実用化に向けた臨床試験が日米で始まりつつあることに触れ、「まだひとりも患者さんを助けていない。日米の協力を加速して、なるべく早く治療への応用を実現したい」と語った。
　今年のノーベル賞は、７日に生理学・医学賞、８日に物理学賞、９日に化学賞が、それぞれ発表される。講演は日米関係の強化をめざす民間団体「米日カウンシル」の年次総会で行われた。
　多くの患者を救える可能性は大きいと感じますので日米で協力して臨床試験を早めて実用化に向けて拍車をかけてほしいです。