Medical・Environment・Reproduction Research Organization(MERRO)International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering（IAIBME）

http://www.merro.jp/

MERRO, as a think tank, aims at promoting academic, economic and cultural
collaboration in the international community and academic, economic, and culturaldevelopment in each country. It also strives to create synergy by collaboration of
the experts from various areas and a new system necessary for future generations.

International Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art（IAIECA）
International Academy of Innovative Economy and Society
IAIESInternational Harmonization Club（IHC）

Mission Statement, Philosophy/Purposes of Medical･Environment･Reproduction Research Organization
Medical・Environment・Reproduction Research Organization (MERRO)MERRO assumes the role of think tanks and intends to achieve the following purposes.
MERRO establishes systematic academia so that the international community could realize asustainable and stable society. Systematic academia means an academic system of the next generation
where natural science, humanities and social science collaborate.
MERRO enhances synergy based on “the natural science design theory”. That is, MERRO promotes
academic, economic, political and cultural collaboration between countries in the international communityand provides career education for the next generation.
MERRO continues science technology research permanently and makes a contribution to Japan and theworld through development of academia, research and development of science technology, promotion ofindustrialization and creation of new industries by collaboration of people who conduct basic or appliedresearch related to state of the art science technology of the world and constructs a sustainablesocioeconomic system of the next generation.
MERRO set up the following internal organizations to realize the above purposes based on the granddesign and contributes to cultivating young leaders of the next generation who are globally active inacademia, the political and business world, and culture and art:
International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering (IAIBME)International Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art（IAIECA）
International Academy of Innovative Economy and Society（IAIES）
International Harmonization Club (IHC)
MERRO also makes a contribution to realization of the environment where necessary information,technology, capital, materials, culture, art or education are equally available, for the purpose of“realization and industrialization of state of the art technology”, “restoration and conservation of the
global environment”, “safe use of science technology”, “global security”, “improvement of QOL”,“provision of benefits of natural science, humanities and social science” and “holistic education” throughdomestic and international cooperation.

1. Establishing the new generation’s sustainable economic system by innovative technology basedon the natural science design theory
2. Organizing academic international/domestic conferences based on the natural science design
theory3. Promoting academia based on the natural science design theory and organizing seminars forthe purpose of cultivating human resource and promoting the industry of the field
4. Project on education for the next generation based on the natural science design theory
5. Project on cultivating young leaders who lead the global era
6. Project on security centering on an economy by industrialization of science technology
7. Project to support academic international collaborative projects
8. Project to support industrialization of the research results and the dissemination of innovative
science technology
9. Project on development of academia and science technology
10. Project on international cooperation by culture and art
11. Project on global environmental restoration and conservation
12. Project on stable supply of goods, raw materials and energy
13. Project on social contributions
14. Project on improvement of QOL through international cooperation
15. Project to help city planning necessary for establishment of a disaster-preventing, disaster-reduction
and recycling-oriented society by science technology based on the natural science design theory
16. Other projects related to the above

President：Atsuko Matsuoka

1Medical・Environment・Reproduction Research Organization（MERRO）《MERRO, Introducing Organization》
Science/Technology

International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering（IAIBME）

Career Education

International Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art（IAIECA）

Economic System

International Academy of Innovative Economy and Society（IAIES）

International Exchange International Harmonization Club（IHC）

International Watsu Club（IHC）
Departments: Academic, Medical, Education, Culture-and-Art, Economic andSocial Affairs, Welfare

Global Offices
International Harmonization Club China
International Harmonization Club Taiwan
International Harmonization Club Europe
International Harmonization Club USA
International Harmonization Club Middle East
International Harmonization Club Africa
International Harmonization Club South America（Beijing・Shanghai）（Taiwan）（Europe）（USA）（Middle East）（Africa）（South America）

Executives of MERRO◆International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering（IAIBME）
Chairperson: Yoshinobu Baba (Advisor to the President of Nagoya University, Professor, Nagoya
University Graduate School of Engineering)◆International Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art（IAIECA）
Chairperson: Yoshiaki Takemoto (President of Nagoya University of Art）
Vice Chairperson: Masahiro Sokabe（Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine）◆International Academy of Innovative Economy and Society（IAIES）

Facilitator: Toshio Fukuda（Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering）◆International Harmonization Club（IHC） International Watsu Club（IHC）

Chairperson: Atsuko Matsuoka
Facilitator: Yoshinobu Baba
Educational and cultural arts groups「Σύμπαν」（Called Universe）
Mammy Fund
"Medical care, education and welfare fund" (in preparation)2

Medical・Environment・Reproduction Research Organization, International Academy ofInnovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering（IAIBME） Executives of Organizations◆Medical・Environment・Reproduction Research Organization

Executives

SupremeAdvisorAkiyoshi

Wada

Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University

President

AtsukoMatsuoka

Managing Director, Medical corporation Soukenkai

Managing
Director

Yoshinobu Baba

Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering

Masahiro

SokabeProfessor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

KuniakiNagayama Professor Emeritus, National Institute for Physiological Sciences

Fuyuhiko

Tamanoi

Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

ToshioFukudaProfessor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering

Yoshiyuki

SakakiPresident, Toyohashi University of Technology

Akio

Nishimura Former President, Nagoya Gakuin University

Masahiro

Hiraoka

Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine

Mitsuru

SuzukiPresident, Miyuki dental clinic

Adviser

AuditorInternational Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering
SupremeAdvisorAkiyoshi

Wada

Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University

Adviser

Yoshiyuki

SakakiPresident, Toyohashi University of Technology

Chairman of
Yoshinobu Baba
Managing
Director
Managing
AtsukoMatsuoka
Director

Executives

Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering
Managing Director, Medical corporation Soukenkai

Masahiro

Hiraoka

Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine

Masahiro

SokabeProfessor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

KuniakiNagayama

Professor, National Institutes of Natural Sciences Okazaki
Institute for Integrative Bioscience

Fuyuhiko

Tamanoi

Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

ToshioFukudaProfessor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering

TakeakiOzawa

Professor, Tokyo University school of Science3

Details of rationale behind establishment of MERROInternational Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering (IAIBME)[Purpose of Establishment]
The integration of advanced medicine and medical technology has led to emergence of the groundbreaking technologies which would be needed for the next generation. Their emergence furthered thedevelopment of human society. The practical use of such technologies through the integration of
medical technology and engineering was promoting industrial vitalization.
The International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering (IAIBME) was established
as a think tank for the purpose of cyclical and lasting development by synergy effects.
The double helix structure of DNA, which James Watson and Francis Crick introduced in 1953, not only
had a tremendous impact on genetics and medicine but also served as a trigger to introduce themethods of physics to medicine and biology.
Elementary study of molecular biology, biophysics and biochemistry and the application of engineeringresearch such as nanotechnology and biotechnology to medicine gave birth to a new field of
nanomedicine. Top-down and bottom-up types of nanotechnology made it possible to manufacturematerials on the nanometer scale and create new functions that had not existed before. A breakthroughin medicine was the appearance of regenerative medicine. Moreover, nanobiotechnology permitted thegeneration of energy which contributes to a sustainable society.
20th century medicine made astounding advances because of medical technology, and overcame
numerous diseases. Positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with which in vivo life phenomenon canbe perceived at a molecular level, enabled the development of new cures and less-invasive diagnosis.
Innovative medical science technology created molecular imaging which visualizes and makes arealistic picture allowing for reduction of the time necessary to develop new drugs, by monitoring drug
kinetics on a real-time basis and narrowing down candidate compounds at an early stage. Research in
opto-science technology (such as the confocal microscope, the multiphoton microscope and laser cellmanipulation) is essential to improve QOL(quality of life) in various areas. Technology of visualization of
biomolecule by scanning probe microscope is expected to contribute considerably to drug development
and clinical research in medicine. Drug delivery system, DDS, which was developed with the aid of
nanotechnology is a valuable technology which allows a drug to reach a narrowly targeted point in the
body and reduce the physical burden on patients. Nanocapsules with an anticancer drug selectively
accumulate on cancer cells and cure the cancer. Discovery of a factor which reprograms a somatic cellmaking it a pluripotent stem cell enabled the establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells.
Transplants without a rejection response can be achieved if induced pluripotent stem cells can undergodifferentiation into the organs of the patients by the technology of regenerative medicine.
The collaboration of researchers in basic and applied research and medical professionals enables
academic development and research, and development and industrialization of medical technology. It
contributes to cultivation of young researchers who will be active globally for the next generation.
IAIBME was established in Medical･Environment･Reproduction Research Organization (MERRO) as athink tank with the goal of collaboration of experts in various areas and cyclical and lasting developmentof the international society through a synergy of effects in the various fields.
Innovative medical science technology needs collaboration with the humanities because ethicalconsideration is essential to deal with life and the human body. Then, collaboration with social science
promotes its practical application. Working with administration enables industrialization and lasting
research in science technology.
IAIBME aims to integrate basic and applied empirical research and social systems and develop asystematic science which will improve the quality of global society in the next generation.
[Purpose]
IAIBME proposes industrialization of technologies which adopt innovative medical science technology.
[Principles (Strategies): Grand design]
IAIBME proposes to build a new environmental city which integrates basic and applied empiricalresearch and social systems. It aspires to the creation of a safe, secure, comfortable and sustainable
recycling society by assembling a variety of research technologies.

4International Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art (IAIECA)[Purpose of Establishment]
Art and culture have continually contributed to and enriched the world’s historical / artistic / cultural
heritage. They have also greatly enriched the quality of life of human being. Art and culture have madehistorical contributions and are part of a common heritage of which humanity is proud. International
Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art (IAIECA) aims to prepare systematically education ofculture art based on the theory of natural science design and practice the education. IAIECA relies on
the concept that key concepts to resolve any problems lie in the laws of natural science.
Studying culture, art and natural science allows you to appreciate those, and make accomplishments in
those fields. It also enhances your serendipity, the ability or skill of finding something valuable while notspecifically searching for it. It leads to cultivation of leaders at all levels in various areas. The nextgeneration leaders definitely need to have the ability to create grand designs at a high level.
Cooperation among leaders will permit creation of a sustainable and stable international community.
As we move into the 21st Century, cultivation of global human resources which can overcome
entrenched problems and realities where existing theories no longer work is an urgent issue. Educationin culture art promotes development of tenderness, imagination, creativity, sensibilities, intuitions,
ingenuity and sentiments of people and develops human resources which have a sense of balance andharmony and communication skills.
Culture, art and education play a significant role in the drawing up of a grand design of a nextgeneration society. Looking at the human history’s artistic and cultural heritage, you will findmathematical beauty symbolized by the golden ratio and artistic beauty such as counterpoint andharmony.
There is an urgent need to develop effective human resources which can resolve a large number ofissues and create a sustainable and lasting social system. It is a need of the times that collaboration
between culture, art and science play a crucial role in the development of education programs to train
such human resources. Many mathematicians derived aesthetics from mathematics in the past.

e iπ + 1 = 0
For example, Euler's identity is a simple relational expression between e as the base of natural
logarithms, i as the imaginary unit, 1 as the multiplicative identity and 0 as the additive identity, which at
first sight appear to be unrelated. The world of mathematical beauty found some relations between
things which are seemingly unrelated.
Science has been developed and technology has been advanced with mathematics, which has led tothe creation of a wealthy economic society. Johannes Kepler and Leonardo da Vinci built a bridge
between mathematics and art. IAIECA aims at the creation of a grand design of a modern society
based on the theory of natural science design in terms of mathematical beauty. It was established by
MERRO with a view to the systematic preparation of education in culture art and the putting of that
education into practice. It strives to develop scientific and empirical methods in terms of brainneuroscience in collaboration with experts in various areas to influence education in culture, art andscience. It will also fulfill the role of developing leaders for the next generation.
[Purpose]
IAIECA aims at the systematic preparation of education in culture art based on the theory of naturalscience design and the practice of education in collaboration with experts in culture art, education andnatural science.
[Principles (Strategies): Grand design]
IAIECA strives to develop scientific and empirical methods in terms of brain neuroscience incollaboration with experts in various areas to influence education in culture, art and science. It will also
fulfill the role of developing the next generation of leaders.

5International Academy of Innovative Economy and Society（IAIES）[Purpose of Establishment]
Highly developed digital technology has brought about tremendous innovation. Such digital technology
became a global standard and contributed to economic development as a core business of the world
economy.
International Academy of Innovative Economy and Society（IAIES）was established to create a new
industry of science technology and to create a realized model of open collaboration which holds capitaland markets in other countries within the global strategic concept of united efforts of public and private
sectors for research and development, clinical trial, industrialization and practical use as a nation basedon the industrialization of science technology.
Now is a time when the present highly developed economic system is leading towards a moreadvanced economic social system for the next generation through collaboration between naturalscience, social science and humanities.
Medical Environment Reproduction Research Organization (MERRO) set up International Academy ofInnovative Education and Culture Art (IAIES), International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine
and Engineering (IAIBME) and International Academy of Innovative Education and Culture Art (IAIECA)
in order to realize the above concept.
While a new industry that generates a next generation global standard is needed, IAIES allows
elevation of the digital technology in cooperation with the other academies of MERRO, works as a thinktank in collaboration with local and international experts and contributes to creation of a sustainable andstable international community by building a safe and secure recycling financial economic society bysynergy effects.
We need a paradigm shift to a next generation economic social system which enables establishment ofa safe and secure recycling financial economic society by addressing the following issues: researchand development of an eco-friendly urban system using innovative technology, essential utilities(energy,
water), food (agricultural crops and marine products), city planning on the basis of disaster prevention
and reduction, establishment of a system which can respond to paralyzed utilities in devastated areas,
upgrading of the administrative offices as emergency operation centers in information administration,practical work and risk management, storage of two months’ worth of food and medicine to which
advanced technology for dealing with emergencies is applied, research on diagnosis and a cure for
intractable or pernicious diseases, and establishment of a social environment which can cope with an
aging society.
A wide range of systematic analyses of social structures enables design of a next generation economic
social system. We found it significant to make an analogy with the fact that wide-ranging systematic
analysis of natural phenomena enabled us to discover the laws of natural science.
In the meantime, the basic concept of the theory of natural science design that key concepts lie in thelaws of natural science is derived from the laws of natural science.
The basis of the natural science design theory is based on physics serving as a basis for naturalscience. Quantum mechanics, which is a pillar of modern physics, enabled us to discover the conceptsof freedom and regularity. As the theory was applied to an economic society, we arrived at the law ofquantum-mechanical economic society. Freedom of economy revitalizes markets and promotes
economic development. It is considered that the balance between freedom and regularity ensuressustainability of a stable economic society. It is necessary to clarify the way the market economy should
work or how to promote free economic activities for future economic development.
IAIES works as a think tank in collaboration with the other academies of MERRO, creates a next
generation global standard and a grand design of social structures necessary for the next generationand contributes to development of a next generation economic social system which focuses on global
security as well as the economy
International Harmonization Club (IHC)

International Watsu Club (IHC)[Purpose of Establishment]
IHC is designed to provide opportunities where experts from various fields discuss the orientation thathumans should take from the global point of view and to promote mutual friendship. It also aims toprovide places where such experts from various fields transfer their experience and expertise to thenext-generation of leaders.

6International Programs
The First International Conference on Innovative Biology Medicine and Engineering（ICBME）
Date
Saturday, April 21, 2012 9:00am-6:00pm
Location
Toyoda Auditorium (Symposion) 1F, Nagoya University
Nagoya University’s FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices
Organizer
International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering
Chairperson of Yoshinobu Baba (Director of Nagoya University’s FIRST Research Center forthe executive
Innovative Nanobiodevices)committee
Congratulatory Hideaki Ohmura, Governor of Aichi prefecture
speechesbyguests of honor Yuji Futamura, Honorary President, Aichi Cancer Center
Special lecturer Akiyoshi Wada, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University
Planned by
Medical･Environment･Reproduction Research Organization (MERRO)International Watsu Club, Academy of Culture, Art and Education “Σύμπαν”(called Universe)
Date: Thursday, May 24 to Sunday, May 27, 2012
Organized by Dalian city government The 23th Dalian acacia festival, the 40th anniversary event of
the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China
Visited Dalian, China, as a Japan-China friendship cultural exchange mission

Second International Conference on Innovative Biology, Medicine, and Engineering (ICBME 2013)
Date
Location
Organizer
Sponsors
Supporters
Chairmanofthe Executive
Committee
Planned by

Saturday, July 27 to Sunday, July 28, 2013
Aichi Cancer Center International Conference Center (1-1 Kanokoden, Chikusaku, Nagoya, Aichi)
Nagoya University’s FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices
International Academy of Innovative Biology, Medicine and Engineering
Tokyo Club
Aichi Prefectural Government , Japan Association for Bioethics
Yoshinobu Baba (Director of Nagoya University’s FIRST Research Center for
Innovative Nanobiodevices)
Medical･Environment･Reproduction Research Organization (MERRO)Grand Design■Center of Technology
We are based in Aichi prefecture and bring researchers all over the world together to industrialize
the innovative technology. We also contribute to global networking as a think tank and securementof a market in the world.

■Accumulation of excellent researchers, technology, and information■Educational system which fosters leaders of the next generation■Concept of accumulation of excellent researchers, technology, and information(environment, healthcare, tourism)
Concept
Environment(considering
disasterprevention andreduction)

Healthcare
Tourism

Outline･Propose research and development of a eco-friendly urban system using theinnovative technology･Essential utilities(energy, water), food (agricultural crops and marine products)･City planning on the basis of disaster prevention and reduction･Establish a system which can respond to paralyzed utilities in the devastatedareas･Storage for two months-worth of medicine to which the advanced technology
for emergency is applied and food･ Research on diagnosis and cure for intractable or pernicious diseases,
establish a special area where clinical trials to cure are conducted･Establish a social environment which can cope with longevity society
Environmental city, Healthcare city

■ Effects of 3K Concept (environment, healthcare, tourism)
Global development of the system
We set up centers abroad and sell technology and products which are accumulated in Japan.
We systemize the above industrialization and transfer the technology overseas■ Organizations for industrialization
We cooperate with the related organizations or companies on the industrialization of
the projects mentioned above.
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医療・環境・再生研究機構（MERRO）

Medical·Environment·Reproduction Research Organization (MERRO)Tokyo Office

Nagoya Office

Hidaka building 402

Medical corporation Soukenkai 2F

1-10-2 Nishiikebukuro Toshima-Ku,

9-5 Nishihowa Yayoi-Cho Toyohashi-City,

Tokyo, 167-0032, Japan

Aichi, 441-8106, Japan

TEL +81-3-5954-5901

TEL +81-532-45-3586 FAX +81-532-47-2160

http://www.merro.jp/

E-mail : info@merro.jp

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