SPEAKERS
Nagahiro Minato
AFFILIATION:
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
POSITION TITLE:
President
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan M.B. 1975 Medicine
Kyoto University, Japan M.D., Ph.D. 1983 Medicine
Chest Disease Research Institute Hospital, Kyoto University 1975-77 Resident
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA 1977-80 Research Associate
HONORS:
2018 Okamoto International Prize
2016 Drug Development Award (The Pharmacological Society of Japan)
2015 SGH Special Cancer Award
2014 CHAAO Award (The Japanese Cancer Association)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Immunology constitutes an essential part in almost every field of modern medicine, and understanding of immune mechanisms has greatly contributed to the medical progress in many aspects. Despite the amazing advances in immunology for recent decades, however, major immunological issues remain to be unveiled, and immunology continues to be one of the most mysterious and challenging fields in modern biology and medicine. Research efforts in our laboratory are focused on understanding the central issues in immunology, including the development of the immune system, mechanisms of tumor immunity, autoimmunity and leukemia development.
Current major research activities in the laboratory are focused on two aspects; first, understanding of the mechanisms and regulation of normal immune system and elucidating how dysregulation of normal development leads to life-threatening diseases such as autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiency and leukemia; second, understanding of the mechanisms of possible immune surveillance against autonomously arising malignant cells and applying the principles for effectively controlling human cancer. We are studying these crucial issues with the use of feasible animal models including gene-engineered animals in close conditions to “reality” as much as possible. Our key word is “ nature, but not we, decide the way to go”. This laboratory is primarily responsible for the education of Immunology for both undergraduate and graduate students of Kyoto University School of Medicine. There are many graduate students at Master and PhD courses of both Graduate School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biostudies, including foreign students, and they are included in several specific research projects under the instruction of 4 faculty staff members with regular English-based laboratory meetings.
PUBLICATIONS:
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