1. Mariana Kiomy Osako is Assistant Professor at Hironori Nakagami’s laboratory and has been conducting research on vascular biology and DNA vaccines.
2. Hironori Nakagami has been Professor of the Division of Vascular Medicine and Epigenetics, Osaka University United Graduate School of Child Development since 2010. His main field of interest is vascular biology and cardiology. He is now interested in the application of DNA vaccines for cardiovascular diseases.
3. Ryuichi Morishita has been Professor of the Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka Graduate School of Medicine since 2003. His main field of interest is cardiovascular disease, and he was the first to develop the decoy oligodeoxynuleotides for E2F or NF-κB to prevent restenosis after coronary artery intervention. He performed the clinical trial of therapeutic angiogenesis using the HGF gene.