Organizing Committee Member
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
The WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center
Osaka University
Japan
Biography
Professor Tadamitsu Kishimoto is a world-renowned immunologist who was born in 1939 Osaka, Japan. After graduating from Osaka University Medical School in 1964, he completed a one-year internship at Osaka University Hospital, followed by Ph.D. studies in medicine from 1965 to 1969. Between 1970 and 1974, he pursued post-doctoral research in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School, working under Professor Kimishige Ishizaka, the discoverer of IgE. He returned to Osaka University Medical School in Professor-Tadamitsu-Kishimoto1974 as assistant professor of medicine and progressed rapidly through his academic and research career becoming professor in 1979. He has served as dean and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Osaka University and was the university’s president from 1997-2003 and a Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy from 2004 to 2006. Currently, he is professor of Immunology at the Immunology Frontier Research Center in Osaka University.
Research Area
Post-transcriptional regulation of IL-6 has been largely uncharacterized, with the exception of the RNase Regnase-1, which prevents autoimmunity by destabilizing IL-6 mRNA