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Mission
The Institute for Research on Productive Aging (IRPA) was established to promote research on aging and life expectancy in Japan and to present Japan as a model for a healthy and long-lived nation to the world, with the aim of brightening the future of Japanese society, which is inevitably entering a super-aging society, through the power of science. In addition, we believe that one of the important missions of this organization is to implement the results of aging research in society without delay and to give back to people around the world. The main activities are listed on the right.
- 1. Basic and clinical research related to aging
- 2. Organization and operation of academic conferences and publication and operation of academic journals
- 3. Consulting Business
- 4. Projects related to the dissemination and awareness of methods and knowledge for extending healthy life expectancy
- 5. Pharmaceutical and food evaluation business
- 6. Development of aging-related diagnostic methods and anti-aging substances
Board of Directors
Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D.Chairman
Invited Chief Scientist
Laboratory of Molecular Life Science
Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation
Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe
M. and T. Tanaka Family Distinguished Professor
in Aging Research
Department of Developmental
Biology
Department of Medicine (Joint)
Washington University School of Medicine
Hiroaki Kitano, Ph.D.Executive Board Member
Professor
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
President
The Systems Biology Institute
Kyota Moriyama
Auditor
Accountant(CPA)
Moriyama Kyota Tax and Accounting Office
International Scientific Advisory Board
- Chairman of the BoardHiroaki Kitano, PhD.
Professor
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
President
The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan - MemberShuh Narumiya, M.D., Ph.D.
Project Professor and Director
Medical Innovation Center
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan - Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director
International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, The University of Tsukuba,
Tsukuba, Japan - Adam Antebi, Ph.D.
Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
Cologne, Germany - Brian Kennedy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology
Director
Centre for Healthy Ageing
National University of Singapore, Singapore - Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D.
Vice President
Aging Research, Calico, San Francisco, Calinornia, USA - Jing-Dong “Jackie” Han, Ph.D.
Professor
Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies
Peking University, Beijing, China - Leonard P.Guarente,Ph.D.
Novartis Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, USA - Linda Partridge, D.Phil.
Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
Biological Secretary and Vice-President
TheRoyal Society, London, UK - Thomas Rando, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Director, The Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
History
- Institute for Research on Productive Aging was founded.
The head office is located in Kobe. - Inauguration of the International Scientific Advisory Board
- Planning the Inaugural International Symposium on Aging Research (ISAR)
- 3 new researchers joined IRPA.