Speaker: Yuval Rinkevich Ph.D., Distinguished Investigator and Director, Institute for Regenerative Biology and Medicine Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing

Time: 14:00-15:30, p.m., July 18, 2024, GMT+8

Venue: Rm. B101, Lui Che Woo Building

Abstract: 

Tissues and organs within our body are encased and interconnected by a body-wide and specialized connective tissue layer termed as fascia. My lab has pioneered methods to study the fascia in living tissues and in animals. During these studies, we are uncovering a remarkable dependency between organs and their surrounding fascia, profoundly affecting injury repair, disease, and development. Our findings of organ-fascia dependency reconfigure current views of our body's repair system, placing fascia at the forefront of tissue/organ pathophysiology. I will outline an innovative research program that aims to uncover the fundamental cell and molecular basis of fascia-organ dependency, as basis for translational research in regenerative medicine. Understanding organ-fascia dependency provides a novel therapeutic space to curtail pathological fibrotic responses and enhance regenerative healing across a range of pertinent medical settings.

Source: School of Life Sciences, PKU