The Gamagori Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture and local businesses have joined hands to promote regenerative medicine in the city, hoping to turn it into a center for the emerging medical genre.
The joint public-private efforts have helped boost the city's profile in medical circles, with a municipal hospital becoming a watchdog for proper regenerative medical practices and the city hosting a key conference on regenerative medicine.
Gamagori City Hospital in July became the nation's first local government-operated medical institution to have set up a Certified Special Committee for Regenerative Medicine, which is authorized by the central government to audit proper planning of regenerative treatment at medical institutions.