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Dr. Kim Sugaya grew up in Yokohama, Japan. He studied pharmacology at the Science University of Tokyo, earning a B.S., an M.S. and a Ph.D. His postdoc work was at the University of Illinois. His work history includes the Mayo Clinic at Jacksonville and the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He accepted a position at the University of Central Florida as a full professor in 2004. He continues to have interests in treating neurodegenerative diseases by stem cell technologies, and his work at UCF has been introduced by Wall Street Journal and other media. He is a Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory and Director of the Neuroscience Consortium for Central Florida.

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