The 6th Awaji International Forum on Infection and Immunity

Tetsuro Matano, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
International Research Center for Infectious Diseases
Institute of Medical Science
The University of Tokyo

Education:

1979-1985	M.D.	Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
1990-1994	Ph.D. (D.M.Sc.)	Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Professional Experience:

1985-1990	Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
1994-1995	Researcher, AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
1995-1997	Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, NIAID, NIH
1997-2001	Senior Researcher, AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
2001-2006	Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2006-Present	Professor, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

Selected Publications

Matano, T., Shibata, R., Siemon, C., Connors, M., Lane, H.C., and Martin, M.A. Administration of an anti-CD8 monoclonal antibody interferes with the clearance of SIV/HIV chimeric virus during primary infections of rhesus macaques. J. Virol. 72:164-169, 1998.

Matano, T., Kano, M., Nakamura, H., Takeda, A., and Nagai, Y. Rapid appearance of secondary immune responses and protection from acute CD4 depletion after a highly pathogenic immunodeficiency virus challenge in macaques vaccinated with a DNA-prime/Sendai viral vector-boost regimen. J. Virol. 75:11891-11896, 2001.

Takeda, A., Igarashi, H., Nakamura, H., Kano, M., Iida, A., Hirata, T., Hasegawa, M., Nagai, Y., and Matano, T. Protective efficacy of an AIDS vaccine, a single DNA-prime followed by a single booster with a recombinant replication-defective Sendai virus vector, in a macaque AIDS model. J. Virol. 77:9710-9715, 2003.

Matano, T., Kobayashi, M., Igarashi, H., Takeda, A., Nakamura, H., Kano, M., Sugimoto, C., Mori, K., Iida, A., Hirata, T., Hasegawa, M., Yuasa, T., Miyazawa, M., Takahashi, Y., Yasunami, M., Kimura, A., O'Connor, D.H., Watkins, D.I., and Nagai, Y. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-based control of simian immunodeficiency virus replication in a preclinical AIDS vaccine trial. J. Exp. Med. 199:1709-1718, 2004.

Kobayashi, M., Igarashi, H., Takeda, A., Kato, M., and Matano, T. Reversion in vivo after inoculation of a molecular proviral DNA clone of simian immunodeficiency virus with a cytotoxic-T-lymphocyte escape mutation. J. Virol. 79:11529-11532, 2005.

Kawada, M., Igarashi, H., Takeda, A., Tsukamoto, T., Yamamoto, H., Dohki, S., Takiguchi, M., and Matano, T. Involvement of multiple epitope-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses in vaccine-based control of simian immunodeficiency virus replication in rhesus macaques. J. Virol. 80:1949-1958, 2006.