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On Friday, September 27, Dr. Tim Hunt, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for the discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle, gave a lecture in the Medium Conference Room on the 11th floor of Building 2 on Shinanomachi Campus.

This event is one of the initiatives that has emerged from the "Keio Networking Session for Collaborative Research," a workshop organized by Keio University School of Medicine faculty members and visiting medical researchers funded by the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council), which is part of the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation). The aim of the workshop has been to explore the potential of joint research on aging.

In his "Growing Old" lecture, Dr. Hunt reviewed the history of biology, including the works of Weismann and Darwin, and described recent significant breakthroughs in research on aging. Next, while citing various physiological phenomena in germ cells and aging cells, he drew on his own experience and spoke with humor and enthusiasm to students and faculty members about his personal thoughts on the topic, which remains a great mystery to this day.

After the lecture, Dr. Hunt and other British medical researchers visited CRIK Shinanomachi, a research and incubation facility on the 9th floor of Building 2 on Shinanomachi Campus. There, they discussed the real-world implementation of research findings in the field of medicine and medical care.

※This event was held with the support of the "Program for Forming Japan's Peak Research Universities (J-PEAKS)."