日本神経学会学術大会

Dr. Okazawa graduated from The University of Tokyo and received license of medical doctor in 1984. After clinical training in The University of Tokyo Hospital, he became a staff member of Department of Neurology 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 differentiation and iPS cell generation, in 1991 (Cell 1990; EMBO J 1991;1993). He then moved to Max-Planck Institute in Germany as a staff scientist, where he discovered a novel receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor. He came back to Department of Neurology The University of Tokyo as an assistant professor in 1993, and moved to Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience as Departemnt Chair in 2001. He has been Professor and Chair of Neuropathology TMDU from 2003, and Director of Center for Brain Integration Research at TMDU from 2012.