Fujimoto, Kosuke

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Dr. Fujimoto graduated from Osaka University School of Medicine in 2010. He completed his initial clinical training at Osaka Police Hospital, followed by clinical positions at Nippon Life Hospital and the Department of Clinical Immunology at Osaka University Hospital. In 2017, he earned his Ph.D. in Medicine from the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University. He subsequently held academic and research positions at Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University (formerly Osaka City University) Graduate School of Medicine, and the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Since August 2025, he has been serving as Professor at the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases. He currently holds this position.
Publication
- 1) An enterococcal phage-derived enzyme suppresses graft-versus-host disease. Fujimoto K., et al. Nature. (2024) 632, 174-181.
- 2) Functional Restoration of Bacteriomes and Viromes by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation. Fujimoto K., et al. Gastroenterology. (2021) 160, 2089-2102.e12.
- 3) Metagenome Data on Intestinal Phage-Bacteria Associations Aids the Development of Phage Therapy against Pathobionts. Fujimoto K., et al. Cell Host Microbe. (2020) 28, 380-389.e9.
- 4) Antigen-Specific Mucosal Immunity Regulates Development of Intestinal Bacteria-Mediated Diseases. Fujimoto K., et al. Gastroenterology. (2019) 157, 1530-1543.e4
- 5) A new subset of CD103+CD8a+ dendritic cells in the small intestine expresses TLR3, TLR7, and TLR9 and induces Th1 response and CTL activity. Fujimoto K., et al. J Immunol. (2011) 186, 6287-6295
- 6) Regulation of humoral and cellular gut immunity by lamina propria dendritic cells expressing Toll-like receptor 5. Uematsu S.*, Fujimoto K.*, et al. Nature Immunol. (2008) 9, 769-76 (*co-first author)

Abe, Ryuichiro
International Research Center for Infectious Diseases
Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Akira, Shizuo
Division of Host Defense
Department of Host Defense
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 Biology

Horii, Toshihiro
Research Center for Infectious Disease Control
Laboratory 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

Kenji Kamimoto
Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Department of Systems Biomedical Science

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

Nakatani, Yoichiro
Bioinformatics Center
Department of Biological Informatics Laboratory of Medical and Evolutionary Genomics

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

Yamasaki, Shotaro
Bioinformatics Center
Department of Biological Informatics Laboratory of RNA Informatics

Yoshioka, Yasuo
BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories
Vaccine Creation Group
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