Akira, Shizuo
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Dr. Akira graduated Osaka University Medical School in 1977 and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1984. He spent the period from 1985 to 1987 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, California University. He returned to the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Osaka University, where he remained until 1996. After working in Hyogo College of Medicine for 3 years, he served as a Professor at RIMD from 1999 to 2018. Having concurrently served as the Director for WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University from 2007 to 2019, he was appointed as SA Professor at IFReC and concurrently RIMD in 2018.
Publication
- (1) Dysregulated expression of the nuclear exosome targeting complex component Rbm7 in nonhematopoietic cells licences the development of Fibrosis. Fukushima et al. Immunity. (2020) 52(3): 542-556.
- (2) Phosphorylation-dependent Regnase-1 release from endoplasmic reticulum is critical in IL-17 response. Tanaka et al. J. Exp. Med. (2019) 216(6): 1431-1449.
- (3) Regnase-1 controls colon epithelial regeneration via regulation of mTOR and purine metabolism. Nagahama et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2018) 115(43): 11036-11041
- (4) Identification of an atypical monocyte and committed progenitor involved in fibrosis. Satoh et al. Nature. (2017) 541(7635): 96-101
- (5) Malt1-Induced Cleavage of Regnase-1 in CD4+ Helper T Cells Regulates Immune Activation. Uehata et al. Cell. (2013) 153(5):1036-1049.
- (6) Zc3h12a is an RNase essential for controlling immune responses by regulating mRNA decay. Matsushita et al. Nature. (2009) 458(7242):1185-1190.
Abe, Ryuichiro
International Research Center for Infectious Diseases
Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis
Arase, Hisashi
Division of Host Defense
Department of Immunochemistry
Ebina, Hirotaka
BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories
Virus Vaccine Group
Hara, Eiji
Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Microbiology
Horiguchi, Yasuhiko
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Molecular Bacteriology
Horii, Toshihiro
Endowed Chair
Department of Malaria Vaccine Development
Iida, Tetsuya
Research Center for Infectious Disease Control
Department of Bacterial Infections
Ikawa, Masahito
Bioinformatics Center
Department of Experimental Genome Research
Ishitani, Tohru
Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Department of Homeostatic Regulation
Iwanaga, Shiroh
Research Center for Infectious Disease Control
Department of Molecular Protozoology
Iwasaki, Masaharu
International Research Center for Infectious Diseases
Laboratory of Emerging Viral Diseases
Kobayashi, Takeshi
Research Center for Infectious Disease Control
Department of Virology
Kotani, Ai
Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Department of Regulation of Infectious Cancer
Matsuura, Yoshiharu
Research Center for Infectious Disease Control
Laboratory of Virus Control
Murakami, Yoshiko
Division of Host Defense
Laboratory of Immunoglycobiology
Nakamura, Shota
Bioinformatics Center
Department of Infection Metagenomics
Shioda, Tatsuo
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Viral Infections
Standley, Daron
Bioinformatics Center
Department of Genome Informatics
Suzuki, Kazuhiro
Division of Host Defense
Department of Immune Response Dynamics
Takakura, Nobuyuki
Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Department of Signal Transduction
Tsukamoto, Kentaro
International Research Center for Infectious Diseases
Laboratory of Bacterial Zoonoses
Watanabe, Tokiko
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Molecular Virology
Yamamoto, Masahiro
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Immunoparasitology
Yamasaki, Sho
Division of Host Defense
Department of Molecular Immunology
Yoshioka, Yasuo
BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories
Vaccine Creation Group
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