Hideaki Koizumi
Prof. Hideaki Koizumi is Senior Chief Scientist at the Advanced Research Laboratory & Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.; Professor (adj.), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo; and Director, Research Field "Brain Science and Education", MEXT and Japan Science and Technology Co. He has been awarded the Oukouchi Memorial Prize twice, The Science & Technology Minister’s Prize twice and the R&D 100 Prize (USA).
Dr. Koizumi is recognized worldwide as an early proponent and major advocate of the new transdisciplinary field of Mind-Brain Science. His research contributions include the development of functional MRI and Optical Topography for the real-time observation of brain functions.
His main objectives are to try to rediscover the true mission and attitude of science and scientists, and reconsider science education in Japan.
  CHAIRMEN
     
Ernesto Carafoli (Università degli Studi, Padua)
Orio Ciferri (Università di Pavia)
Gian Antonio Danieli (Università degli Studi, Padua)
Bernardino Fantini (University of Geneva)
Giovanni Giacometti (Università degli Studi, Padua)
Takashi Gojobori (National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Ladislav Kovac (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Pierre Lasserre (University of Paris VI)
Lucio Luzzatto (Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa)
Howard Moore (UNESCO-ROSTE)
  Giorgio Morpurgo (Università degli Studi di Perugia)
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Vittorio Sgaramella (Parco Tecnologico Padano - CERSA, Lodi)
Talal Younès (IUBS, Paris)
     

 

 INVITED SPEAKERS
     
Werner Arber (University of Basel)
John Barrow (Cambridge University)
Giorgio Bernardi (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli)
Alec Boksenberg (Cambridge University)
Rita Colwell (University of Maryland, College Park)
Antoine Danchin (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
Christian de Duve (Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Bruxelles)
Graziano Fiorito (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli)
Richard Ernst (ETH, Zürich)
Giovanni Giacometti (Università di Padova)
Pierre Gilles de Gennes (Institut Curie, Paris)
Elkhonon Goldberg (New York Univeristy)
Takashi Gojobori (National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Susan Greenfield (Oxford University)
Daniel Hartl (Harvard University, Cambridge)
Motonori Hoshi (Keio University, Yokohama)
Hideaki Koizumi (Advanced Research Laboratory, Saitama)
Pier Luigi Luisi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Lucio Luzzatto (Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova)
Gabriel Macaya (University of Costa Rica, San José)
Benno Müller-Hill (University of Cologne)
Arthur I. Miller (University College London)
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Pierre Papon (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris)
Alain Prochiantz (CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Jörg Rasche (German Association for Analytical Psychology, Berlin)
Vittorio Sgaramella (Parco Tecnologico Padano - CERSA, Lodi)
Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Alessandro Schiesaro (King's College London)
Marvalee Wake (University of California, Berkeley)
Douglas Wallace (University of California, Irvine)
Emile Zuckerkandl (Institute of Molecular Medical Sciences, Palo Alto)
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