1. Shunsuke Kagawa is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery in Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Japan). He is a leading proponent of minimally invasive surgical approaches to gastric cancer. He has been working on the proapoptotic cancer gene therapy and genetically modified oncolytic virotherapy.
2. Toshiyoshi Fujiwara is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery in Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Japan). He has completed the first p53 gene therapy trial for lung cancer in Japan. He is currently developing telomerase-specific oncolytic adenoviruses for diagnostic and therapeutic application.