Japanese Faculties

Takayuki Baba, MD is currently the Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan. After graduating from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 1997, he finished his residency in Ophthalmology in 1999. He received the JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship and become a research fellow at Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA in 2007. After finishing the fellowship, he rejoined the department of ophthalmology and visual science of Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine. His subspeciality is vitreoretinal surgery especially complicated retinal detachment and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. He has research interests including the surgical treatment of myopic macular complications and the development of treatment modalities for retinitis pigmentosa and other retinal degenerative diseases.

2005 Graduated from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
2005 Junior Resident, National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital
2007 Senior Resident, Ophthalmology, Osaka University
2008 Clinical Fellow, Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan
2011 Clinical Assistant Professor, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
2013 Assistant Professor, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
2015 Clinical Associate Professor, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan

Kanae Fukutsu, MD is a graduate student at Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University. Her research interests focus on the pathologenesis of retinal diseases including diabetic retinopathy, and AI-based fundus photograph analysis. She took a short clinical internship as a medical student at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth UK in 2013. After completing her medical degree at Asahikawa Medical University in 2014, she undertook her junior residency at Tonan hospital, Sapporo, then completed senior residency at the Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University. She entered the graduate school from 2018.

Hisashi Fukuyama MD, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Hyogo College of Medicine in Nishinomiya, Japan. He graduated from Osaka University in 2011. He undertook his residency at the Department of Ophthalmology at Osaka University Hospital and completed his clinical fellowship at Kinan Hospital and Hyogo prefecture hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree at Hyogo College of Medicine in 2020.
In 2021-2022, he undertook a research fellowship at Northwestern University, Chicago. Since 2023, he has been a faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology at Hyogo College of Medicine.

2007	M.D. Kyoto University School of Medicine
2007- 2009	Junior Resident, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan
2009- 2010	Senior Resident, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan
2010- 2012	Clinical fellow, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan
2012- 2014	PhD course for Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2014- 2018	Assistant professor, Kyoto University Hospital
2018	PhD in Medical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2018- 2022	Postdoctoral fellow, Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital(Dr. Mike Sapieha lab), Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Canada
2020- 2022	JSPS Overseas fellow
2022-	Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,Graduate school of Medicine, Kyoto University

Dr. Hashimoto is a Japanese retina specialist. He received his MD and Ph.D. from Toho University, Tokyo, Japan. He completed his ophthalmology residency and subsequently underwent vitreoretinal fellowship training at Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba, Japan. He worked on an ocular blood flow research project as visiting associate professor with Dr.Randy H Kardon and Dr.Sohan Hayreh at the University of Iowa from 2018 to 2020. Dr. Hashimoto is Senior Lecture at Toho University Sakura Medical Center and treats both medical and surgical treatments for various retinal diseases.

Atsushi Hayashi, M.D., Ph.D is the chair and professor of Department of Ophthalmology and the Director of Toyama University Hospital. His clinical practice focuses on vitreoretinal surgery, with an expertise in macular diseases. Dr. Hayashi graduated the Osaka Medial School in 1988. He received M.D. and Ph.D. from the Osaka Medical School. After completing Ophthalmology residency in Osaka University Hospital, he went on to a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery at the Osaka University Hospital under Professor Yasuo Tano. In 1994, he went to the Wilmer Eye Institute in Johns Hopkins University as a research fellow of Professor Eugene de Juan, Jr. He spent 2 years in Baltimore, and returned to Osaka University Hospital as an assistant professor. From 2001 he went to Meiwa Hospital as the Chief of Ophthalmology. In 2005, he again went on to the United States, in Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco for basic research of the retina. From 2007, he became the Chair and professor of Ophthalmology, University of Toyama, Japan. In addition, he became the Director of Toyama University Hospital in 2019. Dr. Hayashi is a vitreoretinal surgeon and interested in basic and clinical research of the viteoretinal diseases. He is actively involved in academic ophthalmology. He is a board member of Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society, Japanese Society for Ocular Circulation, and a council member of Japanese Ophthalmological Society.

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin Eye Center Dean, School of Medicine, Kyorin University

1991	Graduated from Kobe University School of Medicine and obtained M.D.
1996	Obtained Ph.D. at Departments of Ophthalmology, Bio-signal Research Center, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.
1998	Department of Ophthalmology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis.
2001	Department of Ophthalmology, Tazukekofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital.
2004	Assistant Professor, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.
2014	Associate Professor, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.
2018	Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine.
2022	Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine.

1985	M.D., Niigata University, Japan
1998	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University
2000	Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York, NY, USA
2001	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University, Japan
2003	Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Fukushima Medical University, Japan
2012-present	Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan Tomohiro Iida is a professor and chairman of Ophthalmology at the Tokyo Women’s Medical University in Japan. His research interests focus on macular disease, vitreoretinal disease, and imaging techniques. He is the president of Japanese Society for Ocular Circulation, member of both the Macula Society and the Club Jules Gonin. He has served as a council member for the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology and the Japanese Ophthalmological Society.

1995	Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University
1995	Resident, Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Resident
2003	Received the doctoral degree from Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
2003	Medical staff, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyushu University Hospital
2004	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyushu University Hospital
2015	Senior Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyushu University Hospital
2016	Associate Professor, Department of Ocular Pathology and Imaging Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
2018	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
2019	Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki

2004: M.D., Yokohama City University
2006: Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University Medical Center
2012: Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University Medical Center
2015: Research fellow, Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital
2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University Medical Center
2018: Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University Medical Center
2020 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology,
Yokohama City University Medical Center

March, 2004
Graduated at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, school of Medicine
April, 2004
Resident, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
April, 2007
Clinical fellow, Tokyo Medical and Dental Unversity
April, 2013-March, 2017
The graduate school of Tokyo Medical and Dental University
April, 2017
Assistant professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
April, 2018
Vitreoretinal clinical fellow at Kyorin Eye Center
April, 2019
Assistant professor, the Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University
April, 2020
Lecturer, at the Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University

1992	Graduated from Kanazawa University School of Medicine (M.D.)
1992	Resident, Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Japan
2000	Chief physician, Department of Ophthalmology, Toyama Red-Cross Hospital, Japan
2003	Chief physician, Department of Ophthalmology, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan
2008	Research fellow, Wilmer eye institute, Johns hopkins University, USA
2012	Assistant professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. Japan
2019	Professor and chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine. Japan

Dr Satoru Kase has shown commitment and enthusiasm in ophthalmic pathology and vitreoretina in basic science and intraocular and ocular adnexal tumors in clinical aspect. He graduated from pathology and got PhD degree in graduate school of medicine, Tottori University, Japan in 2003. He started working as an ophthalmologist in Hokkaido University Hospital after that. He worked as a research fellow in Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA in USA from 2007. He underwent education under professor Stephen J Ryan, and professor Narsing A Rao guidance regarding retinal diseases, inflammation and ophthalmic pathology. Now he is working on vitreoretinal surgeries and ocular tumors and doing translational researches combined with clinical examinations and pathology. He has expanded his knowledge experiences obtained from various leaders to pursuit further studies here in Japan. He published over 100 articles in English journals, and wrote over 60 articles as a first author.

Dr. Keiko Kataoka is an adult medical retina specialist at the Department of Ophthalmology at Kyorin University. She received her MD and completed her ophthalmology residency at Nagoya University School of Medicine, and then received PhD from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Kataoka subsequently underwent a research fellowship at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School from 2012 to 2015, then moved back to Nagoya University as an assistant professor. After joining Kyorin University in 2021, Dr. Kataoka cares for patients with macular diseases and undergoes research for age-related macular diseases and pachychoroid diseases.

1996	Graduated from Osaka Medical College
1996	Resident, Osaka Medical College Hospital
1998	Postgraduate student, Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Osaka Medical College
2002	Clinical Fellow, Ophthalmology, Yodogawa Christian Hospital
2005	Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow, Ophthalmology, University of California, San Diego
2007	Deputy Head Physician, Ophthalmology, Yodogawa Christian Hospital
2009	Vice Director, Ophthalmology, Hirakata City Hospital
2011	Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College
2014	Lecturer, Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College
2020	Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College
2021	Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University

Hideki Koizumi is a professor and chairman at University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He received his MD degree from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan in 1998. He was an international retinal fellow at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and the Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York from 2006 to 2008. His current interests include diagnosis and treatment of age-related macular degeneration and noninvasive retinal imaging.

1982-1988	Graduation, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
1988-1992	Residency in Ophthalmology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
1992-1994	Vitreoretinal Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
1994-1995	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
1995-1997	Research Fellow, University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, USA
1997-2009	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
1999-2001	Researcher, Division of Genome Analysis, Institute of Genetic Information, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
2009-09/2013	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
2013~ present	Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan

2001	M.D., Keio University School of Medicine
2003	Research Fellow, Department of Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine
2005	Instructor, Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine
2007	Ph.D., Keio University Graduate School of Medicine
2007	Staff Physician, Department of Ophthalmology, Saiseikai Central Hospital
2008	Lecturer & Clinical Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine
2013	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine
2021-Present	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine

After graduating Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, he finished residency program at Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University. After finishing a vitreoretinal fellowship at Osaka National Hospital, he became an assistant professor at Ehime University. Then, he joined a research fellowship program at University of Michigan to study the physiology of retinal glial cells under supervision of Donald G. Puro, MD., Ph.D. After coming back to Osaka University as an assistant professor, besides busy clinical work as a vitreoretinal surgeon, he continued basic research on RPE cell physiology, and has published so far several papers in prestigious basic science journals such as The Journal of Physiology, Glia, and IOVS. In addition, he has published over 130 clinical study papers. He has become a professor and chair at Department of Ophthalmology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine since 2018. Currently, his main interests are surgical treatment of various vitreoretinal disorders, including pediatric retinal diseases, and basic research of pharmacological treatment of ocular neovascular diseases.

1987	Graduated from Osaka Medical College
1987	Resident in Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College
1989	Clinical Vitreoretinal Fellow in Ophthalmology, Osaka National Hospital
1992	Staff in Ophthalmology, Osaka National Hospital
1994	Staff in Ophthalmology, Tane Memorial Eye Hospital
1996	Research Fellow, Duke Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center
1997	Medical Director in Ophthalmology, Tane Memorial Eye Hospital
2004	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College
2007	Vice President, Tane Memorial Eye Hospital
2009	Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Toho University Sakura Medical Center

Michiko Mandai, M.D., Ph.D., is a director of Research Center, Kobe City Eye Hospital. She is an ophthalmologist and also actively conducted basic researches to understand retinal disease pathologies at Kyoto university. In the past 2 decades, she contributed to the development of iPS cell based regenerative therapies for retinal degeneration at RIKEN and Kobe City Eye Hospital, from the initial stage of proof of concept/preclinical studies, and the subsequent clinical application for retinal degeneration using 2 types of pluripotent cell-derived retinal cells, the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and the neural retina.

~1999	Fukushima Medical University
1999~	Fukushima Medical University Ophthalmology
2002~	University of Houston Ophthalmology
2006~	Fukushima Medical University Ophthalmology Research Associate
2011~	Fukushima Medical University Ophthalmology Assistant professor
2013~	Tokyo Wemen’s Medical University Ophthalmology Research Assistant professor
2018~	Tokyo Wemen’s Medical University Ophthalmology Assistant professor
2022~	Tokyo Wemen’s Medical University Ophthalmology Associate professor

Hidetaka Matsumoto received an M.D. in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2010 from Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan. He worked in the Angiogenesis lab at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School from 2011 to 2014. Dr. Matsumoto is currently an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine. His research area is retinal diseases, specifically age-related macular degeneration and pachychoroid spectrum diseases, and he has published numerous articles in this field.

Yuki Morizane, MD, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine. After graduating from Okayama University School of Medicine, Dr. Morizane received his PhD in Ophthalmology from Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Morizane subsequently completed a fellowship in retina research at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School. After returning to Japan, Dr. Morizane completed a retina fellowship at Okayama University Hospital and is now a specialist in vitreoretinal diseases. Dr. Morizane specializes in the surgical treatment of vitreoretinal diseases such as refractory macular hole, epiretinal membrane, and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

2004	Graduated from Gunma University School of Medicine
2006	Resident in Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Hospital
2006	Resident in Ophthalmology, Kurashiki Central Hospital
2008	Resident in Ophthalmology, Shizuoka Prefectural General Hospital
2014	Received doctoral degree in ophthalmology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2014	Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Hospital
2021	Lecturer in Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Hospital

Yuki Muraoka, MD
graduated from Gunma University in 2004. He received his doctoral degree in ophthalmology from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 2014. He joined the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 2014. Dr. Muraoka is currently a Lecturer of the Department of Ophthalmology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. His special interest lies in the vitreoretinal surgery, and the pathophysiology of retinal diseases and uveitis. He has used imaging, morphological, and molecular biological techniques to diagnose and characterize retinal diseases.

1986	Graduate from Kyushu University, School of medicine, Japan
1996-1998	Research Associate, Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California USA
1998-1999	Research Fellow, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts USA
1999-2004	Assistant Professor of the Department of Ophthalmology Kyushu University, Japan
2004-present	Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Shinshu Universit, Japan

Dr. Nakao graduated from Kagoshima University of Medicine in 1998 and joined Department of Ophthalmology in Kyushu University to start his career as an ophthalmologist. In 2000, he joined Department of Medical Biochemistry, Kyushu University and investigated the mechanism of ocular vascular diseases. After the PhD course, he continued his research at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. He received many awards from Japan Eye Bank Association, Bausch & Lomb, Rhoto, Bayer, Japanese Ophthalmological Society, Japanese Ocular inflammation Society and Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Diabetology. Dr. Nakao's works are published in top journals such as J Clin Invest, Cell Rep, Blood, Diabetes, IOVS or Ophthalmology Retina. Now he is working for patients with eye diseases, mainly vitreoretinal diseases, as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Juntendo University

CLINICAL INTEREST
・Inherited retinal dystrophy
・Intraocular inflammation
・Vitreoretinal surgery
RESEARCH INTEREST
・Development of new gene therapies for ocular diseases (i.e., inherited retinal dystrophy)
・Multi-omics diagnosis of ocular diseases
・Structure-function relationship in retinal diseases
TRAINING & EMPLOYMENTS

1999-2005	Resident in Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Hospital, Japan
2000-2001	Research Fellow, Schepens Eye research Institute, USA
2002-2004	Research Fellow, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, USA
2007-2011	Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Hospital, Japan
2011	Research Fellow, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2012-2013	Clinical research associate, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, UK
2014-2020	Associate Professor, Advanced Ophthalmic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
2020-	Professor & Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

1983	Graduated from Kansai Medical University
1988	Graduated from Kansai Medical University Graduate School of Medicine
1988	Teaching Associate, Ophthalmology, Kansai Medical University
1991	Research associate, Medical microbiology and Immunology, University of South Florida (Robert A. Good Chief Professor)
1994	Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Kansai Medical University
2007	Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Kansai Medical University
2010	Professor and Chairperson, Ophthalmology, Nara Medical University

Kyoko Ohno-Matsui is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU). She is also the Chief of the Advanced Clinical Center for Myopia at TMDU. She graduated from Yokohama City University Medical School and received her PhD at TMDU. She did postdoctoral fellowship at Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her research mainly focuses myopia, especially pathologic myopia. Based on the long-term progression study, she established international photographic classification of myopic maculopathy. She is especially interested in how eye is deformed in pathologic myopia, and then how eye deformity damages retina and optic nerve. As a method to visualize the shape of the entire globe, she established a new technique called ‘3D MRI of the eye’. Based on 3D MRI and wide-field fundus imaging, she proposed a novel classification of posterior staphyloma. Using various imaging modalities (especially swept-source OCT), she has been detecting structural abnormalities which occur in various tissues in eyes with pathologic myopia. She has also been actively working on ultra-wide field OCT imaging to visualize the entire extent of staphyloma in many patients in vivo. She has authored or co-authored 309 manuscripts which were published in peer-reviewed journals. She is the active member of The Macular Society, The The Retina Society, and Club Jules Gonin. She has been awarded The J. Donald Gass Medal at the Macula Society in 2022. She has delivered Gabriel Coscas lecture in 2021, Stanley Chang lecture in 2022, and Chew Sek Jin lecture in 2023. She has been awarded The Jose Rizal Medal at APAO in 2023.

Dr. Oishi is an associate professor at Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan. He received his MD degree and PhD degree from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 2001 and 2009, respectively. He worked at University of Bonn from 2015 to 2017 as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow. His current interest includes genetics of inherited retinal dystrophy and treatment of macular diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.

Dr. Okada is Professor of Ophthalmology and Assistant Dean of Global Affairs at Kyorin University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan. She serves as Director of both the Ocular Inflammation Service and the Macular Disease Service at the Kyorin Eye Center. Her clinical and research interests focus on the development of pharmaceutical treatments for intraocular inflammation/uveitis and macular diseases. After graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School (Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division), Dr. Okada completed her ophthalmology residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a uveitis fellowship and doctoral degree at Tokyo Medical University and a retina fellowship at Osaka University. She maintains ophthalmology board certification in both Japan and the US, and is an enthusiastic supporter of global research collaborations.

1991	M.D., Kyushu University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
1993-1997	Graduate School of Medicine, Kyushu University (Ph.D. course: immunology)
1997-2000	Postdoctoral fellow, Schepens Eye Research InstituteBoston, USA
2000-2009	Assistant professor, Dept. Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University
2010-2015	Professor and Chairman, Dep. of Ophthalmology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine
2015-	Professor and Chairman, Dep. of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University

2006	Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
2008	Resident in Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
2014	Graduated from School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba Assistant Professor in Mito Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology
2017	Assistant Professor in Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
2019	Research fellow in Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York
2020	Assistant Professor in Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba

2014	M.D.,Nagoya University School of Medicine
2016	Residency in Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Hospital
2017	Clinical Fellowship, Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Aichi
2018	Clinical Fellowship, Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Hospital
2020	Ph.D., Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
2021	Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Hospital

After she received her M.D. and Ph.D., served as an assistant professor in the Kyoto University Hospital. Discovered the potential of stem cells as a tool for retina therapy when she worked at the Salk Institute, U.S. She joined RIKEN in 2006, her team launched a pilot clinical study using iPS cells first in human in 2013. In 2017, she was appointed to the research center director of Kobe City Eye Hospital. In 2019, she started a new career, a president of start-up company; Vision Care Inc., to proceed implement clinical therapy.

2005	Graduate from Kagoshima University
2005	Resident, Kagoshima University Hospital
2007	Senior resident, Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Hospital
2008	Senior resident, Department of Ophthalmology, JCHO Kyushu Hospital
2014	Ph.D., Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
2015	Research fellow, Doheny Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
2017	Retinal fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Hospital
2019	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Hospital
2022	Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Hospital

March 1996	Graduated from Toyama University School of Medicine (M.D.)
May 1996	Resident in Ophthalmology, Niigata University Hospital
April 2009	Medical director, Nagaoka Central General Hospital
April 2012	Instructor, Ophthalmology, Niigata University School of Medicine
April 2013	Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Niigata University School of Medicine
April 2021	Lecturer, Ophthalmology, Niigata University School of Medicine

1992-1998	Nagoya University School of Medicine (M.D.)
1998-2000	Resident in Ekisaikai Hospital (Clinical Medicine), Nagoya, Japan
2000-2001	Resident in Nagoya University Hospital
2001-2004	Clinical and Research Fellowship Program (Retina) at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine (Ph.D., Medical Science)
2004-2005	Medical staff at Nishio municipal hospital
2005-2007	Research Fellow, Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University (Prof. Peter A Campochiaro)
2007-2020	Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
2021-2022	Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
2022-	Professor, Ophthalmology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine

Kenji Yamashiro received an M.D. from Kyoto University Medical School in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 2002 after joining Angiogenesis lab in Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yamashiro is an author on over 200 scientific publications (impact factor: over 1300) and currently a Professor and Chairman at Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University in Japan. His recent interest is in improving medical and surgical treatment for retinal diseases.

Tsutomu Yasukawa, MD, PhD graduated from Kyoto University School of Medicine in 1993 and received his doctoral degree from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 2000 on the research topic of intraocular drug delivery systems. In 2000-2004, he was a guest research fellow with a scholarship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at University Eye Hospital Leipzig in Germany. He developed a rabbit lipofuscin accumulation model and 3-dimentional spheroidal culture system of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. Since 2005, he works for Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science and became Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Science in 2021. Dr. Yasukawa is interested in the development of drug delivery systems, especially controlled release of bioactive proteins (e.g.: anti-VEGF agents). He is also interested in lipid metabolism of retinal pigment epithelium, which may play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration. More recently, he invented a novel method to produce epithelial cell sheet with self-producing Bruch’s membrane-like structure, which may be available for regenerative medicine.