Tetsuya Ikemoto MD, PhD, FACS is a professor and a director of Patients safety at Tokushima University Hospital (his clinical department is Digestive and Transplant Surgery at Tokushima University). He has researched islet transplantation and regenerative medicine at Tokushima University (Japan), at University of Alberta (AB, Canada) and Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas, TX). His specialty is hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery and cell transplantation, and he hopes to establish the new cell transplantation strategy for type 1 DM with regenerative medicine in the near future.