Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology

Dr. Nobuyuki Nukina is currently a professor of Doshisha university Graduate School of Brain Science. He graduated University of Tokyo on 1977 and started research on discovery of tau protein as a main component of Alzheimer neurofibrillary tangles. He was an associate professor of the department of neurology in University of Tokyo until 1997 and moved to RIKEN Brain Science Institute as a head of lab of structural neuropathology. Since 2015, he is working in the current position. His main interest is insoluble proteins in the neurodegenerative disorders including polyglutamine disorders, protein quality control mechanism for clearing those abnormal proteins and transmission of abnormal proteins.