Shin Enosawa, DDS, PhD

• Graduated from School of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (1980)
• MRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, University of Otago, New Zealand (1989-91)
• Department of Experimental Surgery, National Research Institute of Child Health (1991-2011)
• Division Head in Advanced Medical Sciences, National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan (2011-2019)
• Research Associate in Center for Regenerative Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development (2019-)

From 2011 to 2016, worked as Project Manager for the Highway Project, "Clinical research on human embryonic stem (ES) cell formulations for the treatment of congenital metabolic disorders giving rise to severe hyperammonemia", a research fund awarded to Dr. Akihiro Umezawa.

Akihiro Umezawa, MD, DMSc

• Graduated from Keio University School of Medicine (1985)
• Department of Pathology, Keio University of School of Medicine
• Postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California San Diego (1991) and Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (formerly La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation) (1992).
• Department Head and Chairman, Department of Reproductive Biology and Pathology, National Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan (2002-2021)
• Director in Research Institute, National Center for Child Health and Development (2021-)

From 2012 to 2017, also worked as Deputy Director of the Review Center for Regenerative Medicine of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) in Japan and from 2017 to 2019 as Special Assistant to the President of the PMDA.