2025 ISAKOS Congress in Munich, Germany

ISAKOS 2025 Congress Faculty


Kazunori Shimomura, MD, PhD, Prof.

Department of Rehabilitation, Kansai University of Welfare Sciences
Kashiwara-city, Osaka JAPAN

Kazunori Shimomura, M.D., Ph.D., is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in knee surgery, sports medicine, and regenerative medicine. He currently serves as a Professor at Kansai University of Welfare Sciences in Osaka, Japan, and as a Guest Professor at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Shimomura received his M.D. from Osaka City University Medical School in 2003. He completed his orthopedic residency and became a board-certified orthopedic surgeon by the Japan Orthopaedic Association in 2011. He then earned his Ph.D. from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a research fellow and postdoctoral fellow under Prof. Rocky S. Tuan at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA. In 2015, Dr. Shimomura joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor, and he assumed his current academic position in 2023. His research focuses on mesenchymal stem/stromal cell-based therapies for cartilage and meniscus repair. Clinically, his expertise includes knee ligament reconstruction, knee osteotomy, meniscal surgery, and cartilage regeneration procedures.

Tue 06/10
14:45 - 14:50
Room 14c Afternoon Scientific Session I
Paper
Phase III Clinical Trial for Knee Chondral Lesions Repair Using Scaffold-Free, Impurity-Free Tissue-Engineered Construct Generated From Allogenic Synovial Mesenchymal Stem Cells (Golmestrocel)
Presenting Author
ePosters
Knee - Cartilage
E-Poster
Correlation Between MRI And Histological Analyses For Repair Tissue Of Knee Chondral Lesions Treated With Allogenic Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapy Or Microfracture In A Phase III Clinical Trial Cohort
Presenting Author

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