Tomohiro Kurosaki
Immunology
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Tomohiro Kurosaki was born in Okayama, Japan, in 1955. He received his MD in 1980 from Okayama University Medical School and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Kyoto University. After he obtained his Ph.D., he did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York. He then joined Lederle Laboratories until 1996 as a senior research scientist, while holding the position of adjunct assistant professor in Yale University in the United States. After returning to Japan, the Institute for Liver Research at Kansai Medical University. He joined RIKEN in 2001 and has been a group director of his own research group since 2004. So, he joined Osaka University in 2008 and has been appointed professor in WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC).
Research Interest
His current research fields include signal transduction mechanisms through BCR and elucidation of how memory B cells are generated.
Publications
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R. Ouchida H. Mori K. Hase H. Takatsu, T. Kurosaki, T. Tokuhisa H. Ohno JY Wang: Critical role of the IgM Fc receptor in IgM homeostasis, B-cell survival, and humoral immune responses. P Natl Acad Sci Usa , 2012.
