The 9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research-Asia (9th SFRR-Asia) was held on 4–7 April 2019 at the Kyoto International Community House (Kokoka), Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan in the midst of cherry blossom season under the theme of “The New Era for Redox Research” with Prof. Yuji Naito (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan) as the President of the meeting. Kyoto had been the capital of Japan from 794 of Heian Period till 1868 for more than one thousand years, and is now one of most popular tourist spots for world travellers.
This was an Asian cutting-edge meeting, discussing the latest advances in the fields of free radicals and redox biology as well as their pharmacological and clinical applications. Furthermore, novel biotechnological developments and analytical strategies were extensively introduced to tackle with various human diseases from the standpoint of redox biology, eventually to prevent, delay and cure them.
The SFRR Asia 2019 meeting attracted more than 200 delegates from China, India, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States, exchanged ideas and shared recent progresses (). This 4-day meeting consisted of 2 plenary lectures, 6 special lectures, 6 symposia (oxidative stress in medicine [Citation1], nitric oxide, food factors and antioxidants [Citation2], cancer and redox biology [Citation3,Citation4], Keap1/Nrf2 [Citation5,Citation6] and aging), 4 “meet the experts” sessions, 4 sponsored seminars [Citation7], 28 oral presentations [Citation8], 68 poster presentations [Citation9–13] and 1 workshop sponsored by Taylor & Francis. The meeting offered various opportunities, such as a walking tour under cherry blossoms in full bloom () and Gala dinner with maikos and geikos (), to exchange scientific ideas and make networks among researchers from different areas and countries.
Figure 1. Group photograph of the participants of SFRR Asia 2019 Kyoto meeting.
Figure 2. Cherry blossoms in full bloom in Kéagé area in front of the conference venu.
Figure 3. Japanese traditional dancing by maikos and geikos at the gala dinner.
This special issue is a collection of thirteen selected presentations (both original articles and reviews) from the participants. We hope that this special issue would serve as a splenndid memory of the 9th SFRR-Asia for all the participants in a traditional city of Kyoto. Lastly, we hope that this special issue further stimulates and promotes international and domestic collaborations and developments in the free radical research area towards the New Era of Redox Research.
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