Dr Koji Abe is 61 years old man and is currently Professor and Chairman of Neurology at Okayama University Medical School in Japan. He graduated Tohoku University School of Medicine (M.D.) and then got PhD title from Tohoku University under the direction of Professor Kyuya Kogure. Professor Koji Abe has been publishing more than 600 papers on cerebral blood flow and metabolism and neurodegenerative diseases. His research interests cover many important fields of neurology especially in the mechanism of ischemic brain damage, gene and stem cell therapy, neuroprotection, and neuroimaging. He is the past president of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (CBFM) and organized World CBFM meeting in Osaka in 2007 and Japan-Asia CBFM meeting Okayama city in 2014. He is currently serving Presidents of both Vas-Cog Japan and Vas-Cog Asia societies. He is also going to organize Japan Neurological Meeting in 2020, which is the world largest neurology meeting with more than 7,000 neurologists joining. Check the website of Vas-Cog Asia. http://www.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp/~vascogasia/
Mechanism of ischemic brain damage, Gene and stem cell therapy, Neuroprotection, and Neuroimaging