Ran Ito

Ran Ito

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Biography
Ran Ito, is a research fellow of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Ito graduated from Yamaguchi University, School of Medicine, Japan. She received her medical training in plastic surgery from Kyoto University Hospital, Wakayama Red Cross Hospital, Shimane Prefectural Central Hospital, and Kyowa Hospital, Japan. She has been working on hand surgery, microsurgery and breast reconstruction in clinic and researching wound healing and adipose tissue regeneration using biodegradable collagen-gelatin scaffolds sustained release of growth factors. Her research showed that controlled release of growth factors accelerates neovascularization. In USA, she is working on lymphatic cancer metastasis and lymphedema after surgery.