Biography:
Dr. Toru Kondo is currently working as Distinguished Professor at the Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University. He has received his PhD from Osaka University (Prof Yoshio Okada). He worked at the Osaka Bioscience Institute (Prof Shigekazu Nagata) and University College London MRC LMCB (Prof Martin Raff), as a postdoctoral fellow. He then worked as PI at the Cambridge University Centre for Brain Repair, RIKEN CDB, and Ehime University Proteo-Medicine Research Center. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of “Stem Cells” and a council member of the Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer.
Title : Development of novel miR-dependent genome-editing Adeno-associated virus that selectively eradicates glioblastoma-initiating cells