Yoshiya Tanaka

Biography

Professor Tanaka is Professor and Chairman of The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan. He completed his MD degree in 1984, summa cum laude, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, School of Medicine. He completed his Ph.D. in 1988 which focused on mechanism of spontaneous activation of B cells in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: analysis with anti-class II antibody. He was a Visiting Fellow in Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, from 1989-1992. Professor Tanaka serves as council and editorial member of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and is a member of the international committee board of directors, vice chief editor and committee chief of the certification board of the Japanese College of Rheumatology. Professor Tanaka is president and associate editor of the Japanese Society of Bone and Mineral Research and a member of the board of the Japanese Society of Inflammation and Regeneration, Japanese Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research and Japanese Society of Clinical Immunology where he also serves as council member. He is a member of the American Societies of Immunologists, Bone and Mineral Research and the American College of Rheumatology. Other council positions that he holds are with the Japan Endocrine Society, Japanese Asociation of Clinical Rheumatology, Japanese Association of Osteoporosis. Professor Tanaka has made transformational contributions to the field of rheumatology that have changed clinical practice and has been the recipient of over 77 research grants and President awards from the Japanese Society of Inflammation in 1999 and the Japanese College of Rheumatology in 2008 as well as an academic award from the Japanese Society of Bone and Mineral Research and a 2009 Award from the European League Against Rheumatism. He is the author of book chapters, reviews, original articles and case reports constituting over 1,500 publications.

Research Interest

Biochemistry