BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acucela, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing new treatments for blinding eye diseases, announced today that Ryo Kubota, M.D., Ph.D., Acucela’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, is scheduled to participate in the upcoming joint meeting of the Japanese Economic Foundation (JEF) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which will be held at 9:00 a.m. EST on January 27, 2010 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. The event, titled “What is Next for the U.S. and Japanese Economies?” will focus on the future of the Japanese and American economies, and Dr. Kubota will participate in the panel titled, “Agenda for Bilateral Cooperation.”
