Prof. Takeshi TSUBATA

Prof. Takeshi TSUBATA

Dr. Tsubata is a full professor at the Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University since 1996.
He was the Dean, School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University from 2003 to 2010. After receiving PhD from Kyoto University, he worked at Institute for Genetics University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology (Freiburig) in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and then worked at the Department of Medical Chemistry Kyoto University School of Medicine.

He discovered multiple mechanisms for the regulation of immunity vs. immunological tolerance of B lymphocytes, which play crucial roles in regulation of antibody responses and development of autoimmune diseases.