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Shin Kaneko MD, PhD
Professor/Deputy Director
Kyoto University
Japan
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Shin Kaneko is a Professor at Center for iPS cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University. He has graduated with a degree in Medicine and completing his PhD at the University of Tsukuba in 2002. Then he took up a position of Assistant Professor of Clinical Hematology at the University of Tsukuba, where he performed a clinical study of immune-gene therapy against relapsed leukemia. It was in 2005 that he moved to Milan, Italy, to take on the role of Researcher in San Raffaele Institute. He returned to Japan in 2008 where he starts study about immune-regeneration through iPSC technology as an Assistant Professor of the Division of Stem Cell Therapy at the University of Tokyo. In 2012, He moved at Kyoto University as an Associate Professor, then current position from 2020. He also has concurrent post a Professor at Tsukuba University and a director of Thyas, a spinout bio-venture company from his laboratory. From 2022, he is also a deputy director of CiRA.
His keen interest in the field of T cell immunotherapy has been initiated as clinical hematologist and maintained as a scientist with current interest focusing on the regeneration of T cells via induced pluripotent cells for immunotherapy against cancer and chronic infection.
His keen interest in the field of T cell immunotherapy has been initiated as clinical hematologist and maintained as a scientist with current interest focusing on the regeneration of T cells via induced pluripotent cells for immunotherapy against cancer and chronic infection.