Background

 There are 46.8 million dementia patients worldwide with treatment costs of approximately 98 trillion yen, and treatment technique has not yet been firmly established. 

Objectives

 Building an international dementia research hub and human resource development network to ensure healthy and safe lives and contribute to medical welfare.

Overview

1. International collaborative research
2. Founding and operating an international society and holding international conferences and seminars
3. Human resource development
4. Launching an international journal

Effects

1. Clarifying the pathology of dementia and establishing an international standard for early treatment technology
2. Activating global partnership
    

URL

http://www.biolab.mech.okayama-u.ac.jp/

http://www.biolab.mech.okayama-u.ac.jp/JSPS/