Dr.Koji Iwasaki is the Professor of Academic Clinical Research Center, Osaka University Hospital. Dr. Iwasaki is incharge of progress of clinical research, specially, building the strategy, clarify the hypothesis and creating the protocol for clinical trial with investigators in reserch team. Dr. Iwasaki has over 30 years' clinical development experience in the pharmaceutical company, including clinical research and reguratory science. Dr. Iwasaki has experience in setting up medical affairs departments in pharmaceutical companies and he is the organizer of the Medical Affairs Certification Training Program of the Regulatory Science Foundation. Dr. Iwasaki holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical science from Kyoto Pharmaceutical University.

Dr. Sobue graduated in medicine and trained as a neurologist at Nagoya University, Japan. He then completed a PhD in neurology at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, after which he became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and then a lecturer and associate professor at Aichi Medical University, Japan, and then a professor of neurology and Dean of Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. He is now President at Aichi Medical University. He is interested in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly motor neuron diseases and peripheral neuropathies.