[May. 18-20] The 41st Kumamoto Biomedicine Symposium

March 17 2026

We are honored to announce that we will organize an on-site symposium entitled with the 41st Kumamoto Biomedicine Symposium - Hemovascular system throughout life - as follows. This symposium aims to create a new research field, "Hemovascular Biology," by merging the fields of hematology and vascular biology. We hope to contribute to significant advancements in life sciences research by clarifying how blood and blood vessels interact in health and disease.

Date: May 18-20th, 2026

Venue: Kusunoki Terrace (Kumamoto University Hospital)
https://www.kuh.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/map/kusunoki.html

Registration:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/YEHESSGMBu

Poster Session:

We are calling for poster presentations on May 19th, 2026, as part of the 41st Kumamoto Biomedicine Symposium. If you would like to present your poster, please apply using the registration form above. Please include your poster title in your application.

DEADLINE: April 10th, 2026

Speakers:

Keynote Lecture

Markus G. Manz (University Hospital Zurich / University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Ralf Adams (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)　

Camilla Forsberg (University of California Santa Cruz, United States)

Elisa Laurenti (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Stephanie Xie (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada)

Anna Maria Randi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Daisuke Kurotaki (Tokushima University)

Eriko Nitta (Kobe university)

Fumio Arai (Kyushu University)

Haruko Takano (Nippon Medical School)

Hiromi Yanagisawa (University of Tsukuba)

Hiroyuki Nakajima (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute)

Hisamichi Naito (Kanazawa University)

Kanako Wakahashi (Kumamoto University)

Katsuhito Fujiu (The University of Tokyo)

Keisuke Yanagida (The Jikei University School of Medicine)

Keiyo Takubo (Tohoku University)

Kenichi Miharada (Kumamoto University)

Koichi Nishiyama (University of Miyazaki)

Miki Ando (Juntendo University)

Rieko Asai (Kumamoto University)

Saori Koga (Kumamoto University)

Takashi Minami (Kumamoto University)

Tomomasa Yokomizo (Tokyo Women's Medical University)

Toshio Kitamura (Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe)

Yoshiaki Kubota (Keio University)

Yusuke Watanabe (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute)

Organizers:

Hitoshi Takizawa
Yuichiro Arima
Kenichi Miharada
Takashi Minami
Terumasa Umemoto
Rieko Asai
Norika Liu

Sponsors:

The Uehara Memorial Foundation

Flyer: (click to enlarge)