Renu Wadhwa
"Increase in Aging Population and Age-related Pathologies:
Herbal Solutions (focus on Ashwagandha)"
Position
Prime Senior Researcher,Biomedical Research Institute
Leader, DBT-AIST International Laboratory
for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB),
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology (AIST),
Japan
Profile
Dr. Renu Wadhwa had her
first PhD from the Guru Nanak Dev University, India and the second PhD from the
University of Tsukuba, Japan. She had
her post-doctoral trainings at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
and RIKEN, Japan. She has been working
in Japan for last 28 years and leading a research team working on the
mechanisms of cell proliferation controls at the Biomedical Research Institute,
AIST, Japan. Her major research interest is to understand the molecular
mechanism of aging and cancer using normal and cancer cells as model
system. She had first cloned a novel
member of hsp70 family protein in 1993 and named it “mortalin”. Since then she has made several original
findings describing the functional characteristics of this protein and its role
in cancer and age-related disorders. She
has more than 200 publications in International peer reviewed journals with
many invited/plenary talks in international conferences. She has served as a
member of AACR (1997-2000) and President of 86th Annual meeting of
Japanese Tissue Culture Association at AIST Tsukuba. She has been in Editorial board of several
scientific journals including Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and
Mechanism of Ageing and Development. As
honorary academic positions, she has served as an Associate Professor at the
University of Tokyo, Professor at the Yonsei University College of Medicine
(Seoul). Presently, she is an Honorary
Scientist at the Children’s Medical Research Institute (Sydney), Adjunct
Professor at the Hanyang University (Seoul).
She is a Fellow of Geriatric Society of India, Indian Academy of
Neurosciences and Biotech Research Society, India
