Organizing Committee Chairpersons Yuji Naito, M.D., Ph.D. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Shinya Toyokuni, M.D., Ph.D. Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine President of Local Organizing and Promotion Committee Toshikazu Yoshikawa, M.D., Ph.D. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Executive Advisors Etsuo Niki, Ph.D. Health Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology Toshikazu Yoshikawa, M.D., Ph.D. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine President of SFRR Japan (Host Society) Toshihiko Ozawa, Ph.D. Yokohama College of Pharmacy SFRR-Asia Organizing Committee Daniel Tsun-Yee Chiu President, SFRR Taiwan T. Paul A. Devasagayam President, SFRR India Yuji Naito Secretary –General, SFRR Asia Kalanithi Nesaretnam President, SFRR, Malaysia Toshihiko Ozawa President, SFRR Japan Young-Joon Surh President, SFRR Korea Maitree Suttajit President, SFRR Thailand Baolu Zhao President, SFRR China International Advisory Board Grzegorz Bartosz, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland Enrique Cadenas, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Daniel Tsun-Yee Chiu, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Kelvin J.A. Davies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Chris Easton, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Balz Frei, Oregon State University, Corvallis,USA Matthew B. Grisham, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Texas, USA Clare Hawkins, Heart Research Institute, Newtown, Australia Harry Ischiropoulos, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Malcolm Jackson, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Valerian E. Kagan, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Etsuo Niki, Health Research Institute, AIST, Osaka, Japan Toshihiko Ozawa, Yokohama College of Pharmacy, Yokohama, Japan Lester Packer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Rakesh P Patel, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA Giuseppe Poli, Universita Ospedale San Luigi Gonzaga, Torino, Italy Rafael Radi, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay Sue Goo Rhee, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea Chandan K. Sen, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, USA Helmut Sies, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany José Viña, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Christine Winterbourn, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan