Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology

Dr. Hitoshi Okazawa graduated from The University of Tokyo and received M.D. in 1984. After clinical training of Neurology at The University of Tokyo, he became a staff member of The University of Tokyo in 1986. He started research of molecular biology at Department of Biochemistry The University of Tokyo in 1988, and received Ph.D. by discovery of Oct-3/Oct-4, the most essential factor for ES cell and iPS cell, in 1991. He became a staff in Department of Neurobiochemistry of Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry at Munich in Germany, where he discovered a receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor. He became an assistant professor of The University of Tokyo in 1993, then Department Chair of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience in 2001. He has been Professor and Chair of Neuropathology from 2003, and Director of Center for Brain Integration Research at TMDU from 2012-2022, and directing researches of neurodegeneration and related fields based on molecular biology.