Fujimoto, Kosuke

Profile

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