Makoto Iwata

Education/Training:
1975 Batchelor of Science (Chemistry), The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science
1980 Ph.D. (Immunology & Biochemistry), The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences

Professional Career:
1980 Postdoctoral Fellow (Immunology), NIAID, NIH, Washington DC, USA
1981 Postdoctoral Fellow (Immunology), Subdepartment of Immunology, The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA, USA
1983 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (Microbiology & Immunology), University of Tsukuba School
of Medicine, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Then, after the second stay in The Johns Hopkins University as a faculty member;
1989 Senior Researcher, Mitsubishi Kasei(Kagaku) Institute of Life Sciences, Machida, Tokyo
1999 Department Director, Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, Machida, Tokyo
2005 Professor (Immunology), Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri
University, Sanuki, Kagawa (The names of the Laboratory and the Department have been
changed from "Biodefense Research" and "Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kagawa
Campus", respectively, since 2012.)
2017 Visiting Senior Researcher/Guest Professor, Research Organization for Nano & Life
Innovation, Waseda University, Center for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns),
Shinjuku, Tokyo

Awards:
2013 Japanese Association for Food Immunology Award