Inauguration of Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Date : 24th September 2005, Venue: Hotel Residency Towers, Chennai.
Chief Guest: His Excellency Mr Yoshiaki Kodaki, The Consul General of Japan,
Welcome address & Presentation of NCRM :
Dr Samuel JK Abraham, Director NCRM
(II Dept of Surgery, Yamanashi University Hospital, Tamaho, Japan)
“Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine is going to take the stem cells and autologous tissues with regenerative capacity to clinical application. This is not going to invade into any particular specialty of medicine and be a substitute to any prevailing definitive treatment modality. Rather NCRM will equip the clinicians with an additional tool called stem cells in treating various disorders in the most ethical and scientific way, with transparency and adherence to the existing national and international guidelines. The facility in Chennai will coordinate research work between Indian and Japanese institutes, and upon standardizing the treatment protocols train clinicians and researchers in using the same to propagate it all over the country to relieve fellow human beings from pain”
Inauguration of NCRM by unveiling the plaque & lighting Kuthuvilakku & address :
His Excellency Mr Yoshiaki Kodaki, The Consul General of Japan, Chennai.
Over the years there have been several Indo-Japan programmes by Nichi-In and we welcome such activities, as they contribute to promote the understanding between the people of Japan and India. South India has been famous for high standards of medical science, technology and health care services. Japan as well is known for high standards of medical science and technology. So it is quite natural that India and Japan should cooperate in thie field, though lot of efforts is required to make such cooperative work, a success. In this context, I pay my respect to the people who initiated the Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) project and worked hard overcoming difficulties and finally successed in bringing it into realization.
This project of NCRM is seen as good example of embodying the spirit of the strategic partnership between Japan and India and also seen as a good example of global cooperation at time when the world becomes an entity called global village. I hope the NCRM project would stimulate other people in the medical sector to follow such cooperative projects for the benefit of the citizens of the global village.
During the visit of the Prime minister of Japan Mr Junichiro Koizumi, the statement entitled “Strategic orientation of Japan-India global partnership in a new asian era” was issued. This emphasizes the importance of the partnership between the two countries and agrees to expand the relations between India and Japan by launching eight fold initiatives. One of the initiatives is Science and Technology, which includes modern biology, health care, and agriculture. I wish the NCRM all success
Felicitation by Dr K.M Cherian:
(Chairman & CEO, Frontier Life Line)
Regenerative Medicine is going to be the future and sooner, hospitals will be called as “Centres for regeneration”. This is the time we should concentrate more in this line of research and bring those benefits for the welfare of the mankind.
Felicitation by Dr C.M Habibullah:
(Director, Centre for Liver Diseases, Hyderabad)
With my association in joint research for the past one year, I feel that the scientists with NCRM have a very balanced way of evaluating things and their technology of having overcome the major obstacles in cell culture technique, is definitely going to revolutionize the various treatments using cell therapeutics.
Dr K Ravishankar:
(CEO, Sankara Nethralaya)
This could be the first time in India that we are able to have an indigenously developed cell line that too a stem cell line.
Swamiji Satyapriyananda:
(Secretary, Vivekananda College)
Though health care is their major area of concern of NCRM, our institute is associated with them in finding ways for developing environmental friendly plastics and to find methods for conserving water in agriculture.
Mr Ramana Reddy:
(Trustee, Vijaya Group of Hospitals)
Human beings are their own source of happiness as well as problems. In today’s world, materialistic values have overcome, spiritual values and regeneration of the lost spiritual values is more important than physical regeneration.
Ms Yoshiko Amikura:
(Director Nichi-In Bio Sciences Pvt Ltd)
Read out the Greeting messages received from
Prof. Yuichi Mori (Waseda University, Japan) &
Mr. Morozumi Yoshio (Ex-officio Director, Nichi-In
Bio Sciences & Executive Director,
Kyowa medical corporation, Japan)
Chairpersons:
(i) Dr S.G. Ananda Rao
(Chairman & Director, Cryostemcells Karnataka Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore)
(ii) Dr S.R. Subrammanyam,
(Vascular surgeon, Vijaya Health
Centre & Chairperson, Institutional
Ethics
Molecular Characterization of Corneal
Limbal Stem Cells grown in Mebiol Gel
Dr H.N. Madhavan, Vision Research
Foundation, Chennai
Cell therapeutics in liver diseases
Dr CM Habibullah, Director,
Deccan College of Medical Sciences,
Hyderabad.
Hemato-oncology and stem cell
therapy
Dr Sharat Damodar,
Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore.
Stem cells in Cardiovascular medicine
Dr Soma Guhathakurta, Frontier life line-Dr
K.M.Cherian Heart Foundation, Chennai.
Applications of polymer technology in
environmental health.
Dr. V Sivasubramanian,
Vivekananda College, Chennai.
Potential clinical applications of our
technology
Dr Samuel JK Abraham, NCRM, Chennai &
Yamanashi University Hospital, Japan.