Journal of Blood & Lymph

Noriko Kagawa

Biography

Dr. Noriko Kagawa obtained  her  PhD in 2005 from theKyoto University, Japan.  She  is currently Director of the Repro Self Bank in Repro Support Medical Research Center (Tokyo, Japan), after working within the world's largest human IVF unit, Kato Ladies' Clinic. In 2000,  she started animal embryology and studied ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies; IVM, IVF, vitrification, embryo culture) in pig, and established the porcine follicular growth system using SCID mice (Kagawa et al., 2005).  She  moved to the human IVF field in 2004, and has developed vitrification methods for mammalian ovaries and ovarian tissues (mice, cat, dog, lion, giraffe, bovine, human).  She  established the human ovarian tissue vitrification (Kagawa et al., 2010), and started to bank ovarian tissue for cancer patients in Japan and U.S.A. From 2007,  she  started collaboration clinical research about ovarian tissue vitrification and transplant for cancer patients with Dr. Silber. Now  she  has 50cases of clinical ovarian tissue vitrification in Japan and U.S. Now,  her interests are purification of oocytes from cancer ovary and vitrification of various organs for unlucky patients.  Her  policy is to give the normal life like as healthy people by fertility preservation for patients.

Research Interest

Reproductive Technologies

IVM

IVF

vitrification

embryo culture