2003 Annual Report
(April 2003–March 2004)
Japan Spinal Cord Foundation (JSCF)
[Main Activities]
• May 2003: Sponsored 3rd Spinal Cord Regeneration Study Promotion Seminar. (Lecturer: Prof. Hideyuki Okano (Keio University, Japan))
• July 2003: Encouraged Japanese Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare personally to promote regeneration medicine.
• Dec. 2003: Requested Japanese government乫s experts committee to lift ban on studies on human neural stem cells at hearing on 乬Guideline for Clinical Studies Using Human Stem Cells乭 (expected to be approved in 2004).
• Jan. 2004: Discussed issues of scientific evidence and human subject protection regarding clinical study approved by Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Kansai Medical University (Japan), in which bone marrow stromal cells are transplanted into cerebrospinal fluid of subjects in the acute stage of spinal cord injury, with co-researchers Prof. Chizuka Ide and Assistant Prof. Yoshihisa Suzuki (both of Kyoto University, Japan). (Study will be conducted following resubmission of application to IRB after Sept. 2004.)
• Feb. 2004: At a symposium, requested bioethics experts committee of Council for Science and Technology Policy in Japanese Cabinet Office to permit use, for therapeutic purposes, of human embryos in research. (Again requested committee to lift ban at hearing held in April 2004; finally approved through a vote at committee meeting held in June.)
Activities to Improve Quality of
Life (QOL) of People with Spinal Cord Injury
• Nov. 2003: Sponsored lecture in Tokyo by Dr. John R. Bach (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, U.S.A.) on 乬Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation乭.
• Feb. 2004: Conducted statistical survey of 6000 people on abnormal pain after spinal cord injury (1650 replies collected; results to be released in Aug. 2004.)
• Publication of quarterly JSCF Newsletter (13,000 free copies distributed).
• Telephone/e-mail counseling, publication
of medical literature, video rental service, etc.
2003 Financial Accounting
(April 2003–March 2004)
Japan Spinal Cord Foundation (JSCF)
[Income] (Description)
|
|
Yen |
|
|
Grant money |
2,560,000 |
|
|
Donations |
10,040,000 |
|
|
Subtotal: |
12,600,000 |
(Approx. US$116,000*) |
|
Amount brought forward |
6,660,000 |
|
|
Grand total: |
19,260,000 |
(Approx. US$178,000*) |
[Expenditures]
|
Projects
|
3,370,000 |
Regeneration
campaign, lecture meeting on respiration, statistical survey on pain after
SCI, and rehabilitation equipment |
|
Printing
and binding |
1,720,000
|
JSCF
News; JSCF reports |
|
Personnel
|
2,370,000 |
Staff salaries |
|
Rent |
1,920,000
|
Headquarters |
|
Other administrative
|
2,460,000 |
|
|
Subtotal: |
11,840,000 |
(Approx.
US$109,600*) |
|
Amount
carried forward |
7,420,000丂丂丂 |
(Approx.
US$68,700*) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
仏侾US亹亖108.00 Yen |
2004
Board Members
(April 2004–March 2005)
Japan Spinal Cord Foundation (JSCF)
|
Title |
Name (male/female) |
Description |
|
President |
Makoto Ohohama (m) |
Injured in 1974 (C4, 5 Quad) Concurrently serving as Director of Secretariat |
|
Vice president |
Tuguo Ohokubo (m) |
Injured in 1985 (L2 Para) In charge of lobbying activities |
|
Vice president |
Tamio Hirose (m) |
Injured in 丂丂(C5 Para) Coordinator for Int. Relations (CIR) |
|
Vice president |
Norio Fujiki (m)丂 |
Injured in 1982 (C4, 5 Quad) |
|
Executive director丂丂 |
Nagaoki Shirai (m) |
Injured in 1994 (C6 Para) Vice-Secretary General |
|
Executive director |
Tooru Aizawa (m) |
Injured in 2001 (C5, 6 Para) Graduate fellow of law school |
|
Executive director |
Takiko Wakabayashi (f) |
Non-disabled (office worker) |
|
Executive director |
Michiko Sasa (f) |
Non-disabled (care coordinator) |
|
Executive director |
Motoyuki Watanabe (m) |
Non-disabled Full-time secretarial staff Certified social welfare counselor |
|
Auditor |
Naonori Kawanabe (m) |
Non-disabled Certified Public Accountant |
|
Auditor |
Akira Tsumaya (m) |
President of Spinal Injuries Japan |
乮translated by Yuzuru Kamezawa丂丟
The Japanese Red Cross Language Service Volunteers乯