My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.

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IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.

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Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

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I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

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