Akira Shizuo

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.