Internist of General Internal Medicine
2nd Dept of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan, 1990-1991. |
Internist of General Internal Medicine
Sasebo City General Hospittal, Sasabo, Japan, 1991-1992. |
Graduate Student
Graduate School of Nagasaki University School of Medicine, working with Professor Hiroshi Shiku on analysis of antigenisity of tumors and identification of tumor antigens on chemically induced-mouse fibrosarcoma system, 1992-1996. |
Medical Stuff / Postdoctoral Fellow
2nd Dept of Internal Medicine, Mie University School of Medicine, Mie University Hospital, Mie, Japan, working with Professor Hiroshi Shiku, conducting research and supervising graduate students in tumor immunology, working for clinical service and supervising trainee in hematology/oncology, 1996-1999. |
Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Pathology/Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, working with Professor Robert D. Schreiber on tumor immunosurveillance system and identification of tumor antigens on chemically induced-mouse fibrosarcoma system, conducting research and supervising graduate students, 1999-2004. |
Associate Professor
Division of Immunoreguration, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan. Conducting and organizing cancer vaccine clinical trials with recombinant tumor antigen protein and adjuvant of immunostimulatory activity on innate immunity systems. Conducting research on immunoregulation of Th1/Th2 balance, 2004-2006. |
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer Vaccine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. Conducting research on immunotherapy of cancer and on cancer immunoediting hypothesis with mouse model. Conducting and organizing cancer vaccine clinical trials with recombinant tumor antigen protein complexed with nanogels of cholesteryl pullulan, 2006-2009. |
Associate Professor
Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. Conducting research on immunotherapy of cancer and on cancer immunoediting hypothesis with mouse model. Conducting and organizing adoptive immunotherapy and cancer vaccine clinical trials, 2009-2014. |
Professor
Department of Immuno-Gene Therapy, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. Conducting research on immunotherapy of cancer with special focus on the development of novel adoptive cell therapy. Conducting and organizing adoptive immunotherapy and cancer vaccine clinical trials, 2015-2016 |
Professor
Department of Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan. Conducting basic and applied research on cancer immunity with special focus on the development of novel adoptive cell therapy. Conducting and organizing adoptive immunotherapy clinical trials, 2016-present. |