Takayuki Yoshino

Biography

 Dr. Takayuki Yoshino, M.D., currently works at the National Cancer Center Hospital East in Chiba, Japan, where he is the Director for the Department of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology and the Head of the Clinical Research Coordinating Division. Dr. Yoshino has a particular interest in chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers, especially for colorectal cancer, where he focuses on various investigational new agent and translational research regarding potential predictive and prognostic biomarkers. He received his medical degree from the National Defense Medical College and after completing his first residency there, he moved to the National Cancer Center East where he specialized in gastrointestinal oncology. Dr. Yoshino later spent five years at the Shizuoka Cancer Center and during this time, he studied in the USA for a year at several world-renowned institutions, including the Mayo Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. In 2007 Dr. Yoshino returned to the National Cancer Center East, where he has held senior positions ever since. Dr. Yoshino has had over 20 first or corresponding author publications on metastatic colorectal cancer since 2012, with several articles published in Lancet Oncology and The New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Yoshino holds several professional appointments, serving on guideline member of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum, international guideline member of the European Society for Medical Oncology, and guideline member of the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology as well the administrative board for The Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer.

Research Interest

 Oncology