AKINORI TAKAOKA, M.D., Ph.D.
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【Bibliographical stetch】

  • Year of Birth: 1967
  • Place of Birth: Wassamu-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
  • Nationality: Japanese

  • Akinori Takaoka, M.D., Ph.D. graduated from Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in 1992, and gained his Ph.D. and M.D. at the same university in 1996. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow and a Research Associate at the Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine & Faculty of Medicine, at University of Tokyo. In this department he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and Lecturer in 2002. Then, he was appointed in a current position to start a new laboratory at Hokkaido university in 2007. His research interests include the characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying cellular response to microbial infection and cancer, which contributes to the identification of possible molecular targets for those therapies. Particularly, his current research has been focused on the identification of DNA recognition molecules that triggers the activation of innate immune responses to microbes and tumor cells.



    【Selected Publications】

    1. Yamada,T.,et al.Nat. Immunol., 22, 820–828, 2021.[Abstract]
    2. Yamada,T.,et al.Nat. Immunol., 17, 687-694, 2016.[Abstract]
    3. Sato, S.,et al.Immunity., 42, 123-132, 2015.[Abstract]
    4. Hayakawa, S.,et al.Nat. Immunol., 448, 37-44, 2011.[Abstract]
    5. Takaoka, A., et al.Nature, 448, 501-505, 2007. [Abstractt]
    6. Takaoka, A., et al.Nature, 434, 243-249, 2005. Abstractt]
    7. Takaoka, A., et al.Nature, 424, 516-523, 2003. [Abstract]
    8. Takaoka, A., et al.Science, 288, 2357-2360, 2000. [Abstract]


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    【Memberships/Affiliations】

    International society for interferon and cytokine research, International cytokine society, Japanese cancer association, Japanese society for Immunology, The molecular biology society of Japan, Japanese Cytokine Society, Japanese Association of Cancer Immunology.