Laboratory for Gut Homeostasis

 

 

Team Leader: Kenya Honda

Laboratory for Gut Homeostasis RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Date of birth:  4 Jan. 1969

Nationality:  Japanese

Present Address:  

Laboratory for Gut Homeostasis

RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS RCAI)

1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045 JAPAN

TEL: +81-45-503-9682

e-mail:  kenya[at]rcai.riken.jp

 

Education:

1994  M.D.  Kobe University, School of Medicine, Japan

Japanese Medical License Registration (No. 365677)

 

2001  Ph.D. (Medical Science)  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Research Interests: Lymphoid organogenesis

 

Professional Experience:

2001-2007 Assistant Professor 

Dept. of Immunology

Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine

University of Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests: Signal transduction in innate immune system

 

2007-2009 Associate Professor

Laboratory of Immune Regulation

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University

Research Interests: Intestinal immune system

 

2008-2010  PRESTO Researcher

Japan Science and Technology Agency

 

2009- 2013  Associate Professor

Department of Immunology,

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Research Interests: Microbiome and Intestinal immune system

 

2013- present Team Leader

Laboratory for Gut Homeostasis

RIKEN RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS RCAI)

Research Interests: Microbiome and Intestinal immune system

 

2012- present  CREST Researcher

Japan Science and Technology Agency

 

Honors and Awards:

2006  Incitement Award of the Japanese Society for Immunology.

2011-2012 Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

2013  NISTEP Award (The Researchers with Nice Step) for 2013