HAYAKAWA Satoshi

Dr. Satoshi Hayakawa graduated Nihon University school of medicine and obtained M.D. in 1983. After 3 years clinical training in Nihon University Itabashi Hospital, he studied reproductive genetics with the late Dr. Susumu Ohno and molecular immunology with the late Dr. Takeshi Matsunaga at the Beckman Research institute of the City of Hope Medical Center, California from 1985 to 1986. Returning Japan, he obtained PhD. from Nihon University and has been studied at department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pathology in Nihon University as well as at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. From 2007, he is a professor of Microbiology and Infectious disease control and Clinical Immunology. He has a wide range of research themes such as mucosal immunity in female reproductive organs, cancer immunology, evolutionary medicine as well as pathography of famous musicians, artists and monarchs. For the first time, he discovered extra-thymic T cell differentiation in human decidual tissues and characterized their regulatory nature. He also reported an association between genetic polymorphism in class II HLA and TCR repertoire and susceptibility to inflammatory bowel diseases, he disproved an established theory of Th2 predominance in mammalian pregnancy. He published over 100 refereed articles in English. For the past few years, he is concentrated in research of the mechanisms of vertical HIV transmission and involvement of local immune systems　as well as molecular epidemiology of pediatric viral infections and mass immune status of south east Asian children.