小澤 鉄太郎

Tetsutaro Ozawa was born in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture in 1965. He graduated from Niigata University School of Medicine in 1991. He majored in Neurology at Brain Research Institute, Niigata University. He received PhD degree in molecular genetics of neurodegenerative disease at Niigata University in 2001. From 2002 to 2003, he worked as a Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Neurology and the Queen Square Brain Bank in London, UK, to investigate the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. He also worked as a Specialist Clinical Fellow at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery in London. During his stay in UK, he made considerable achievements in the research for elucidating the spectrum of pathological involvement of striatonigral and olivopontocerebellar system in multiple system atrophy. He worked as a Research Associate (from 2004 to 2008) and a Lecturer (from 2009 to 2014) in the Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University. He was appointed Editorial Board Member of Acta Neuropathologica (Springer) from 2008 to 2010. He was also appointed Editorial Board Member of Movement Disorders (the official journal of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society) from 2010 to 2012. For his accomplishment, he received the Yujin Young Investigators Award (from Niigata University), the Kurt Jellinger Prize (from the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy), and Outstanding Dedication and Service as Editorial Board Member of Movement Disorders (from the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society). He was Professor of Neurology at the Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital (from 2015 to 2023).