Prof. Hiroshi Kiyono
Prof. Kiyono is Distinguished Professor of the Future Medicine Education and Research Organization, Chiba University(CU), and Department of Human Mucosal Vaccinology, Chiba University Hospital, Director of Synergy Institute for Futuristic Mucosal Vaccine Research and Development (cSIMVa), Chiba University, and Adjunct Professor of Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Co-Director of CU-UCSD Center for Mucosal Immunology, Allergy and Vaccines (cMAV), UCSD School of Medicine.
His research specialties are the areas of Mucosal Immunology and Mucosal Vaccines. Prof. Kiyono’s research is currently directing on the elucidation of the mucosal immune system for the development of mucosal vaccine against emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and mucosal immune therapy for mucosa-associated diseases, such as food allergy and inflammatory diseases.