Tatsuya Shimizu

Director & Professor Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science Tokyo Women's Medical University (ABNES, TWMU)

Biography

He is 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 myocardial tissue engineering based on “cell sheet technology” under the guidance of Prof. Teruo Okano. “Beating cardiac cell sheets” fascinated me, so I have decided to become a tissue engineer.