Title: Organ dependency on its surrounding fascia connective tissue

 

Speaker: Yuval Rinkevich, Ph.D.

Director/Tenured Principal Investigator

Institute of Regenerative Biology and Medicine,

Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

 

Host：Lin Mei

           Chinese Institutes for Medical Research

 

Time：14:00-15:30, June. 19, 2023 (Monday)

 

Location: No.78 Teaching Room, the 2nd Teaching Building, Capital

Medical University

 

Summary:

Tissues and organs within our body are encapsulated 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 our studies, we have uncovered a remarkable dependency between organs and their surrounding fascia, profoundly affecting injury repair, disease, and development. Our findings of organ-fascia dependence challenge and reconfigures our current view of our body’s repair system, placing fascia at the forefront of tissue/organ pathophysiology. Dr. Rinkevich 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.