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Dr. Kunitoshi Iseki received his medical degree from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1974. He completed research and clinical fellowship training in nephrology at the University of Southern California from 1982 to 1986 under Professors S.G. Massry and V.M. Campese. Dr. Iseki has held senior academic and clinical positions at Kyushu University Hospital and Ryukyu University Hospital, where he served as Senior Assistant Professor of Medicine and later as Director of the Dialysis Unit from 1995 to 2016. He is President of the Okinawa–Asia Clinical Investigation Synergy (OACIS), a former Executive Committee Member of KDIGO, and an Honorary Member of the Japanese Society of Nephrology and the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy.

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Jing Miao, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Nephrologist, Consultant. Dr. Miao is a board-certified nephrologist whose clinical and research work centers on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney disease, along with the use of artificial intelligence in nephrology. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, including first or senior authorship in journals such as Kidney International, JASN, CJASN, Hypertension, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, KI Reports, NDT, and Kidney360. Her contributions have earned multiple awards for Outstanding Research and Excellent Teaching, and her work has been highlighted by ASN In The Loop, the CJASN cover, Kidney News, STAT News, and Renal Interventions for its influence on clinical care and AI innovation. Dr. Miao serves on the editorial boards of BMC Nephrology and Frontiers in Medicine and reviews for journals including Nature Communications, The Lancet Digital Health, Mayo Clinic Proceedings Digital Health, Pregnancy Hypertension, Renal Failure, NDT, CKJ, and American Journal of Nephrology.

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Dr. Yoshifumi Saisho received his medical degree in 1998 and his PhD degree in 2009, both from the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. Dr. Saisho completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center at the University of California-Los Angeles’s David Geffen School of Medicine (Prof. Peter C. Butler). Dr. Saisho’s area of interest is Diabetology, especially beta cell dysfunction in diabetes. Dr. Saisho is the author or coauthor of more than 100 publications.