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