6th The Awaji International Forum on Infection and Immunity  
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Kazuo Sugamura, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

Educations

1964-1970 Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai
1970-1974 Graduate School of Tohoku University School of Medicine

Research and Professional Experience

1974-1976 Research Fellow, Institute of Cancer Research
1976-1978 Research Fellow, Immunobiology Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1978-1980 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto
1980-1986 Associate Professor, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto
1986-1997 Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai
1997-present Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai
2004-present Dean, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai
Selected publications:

1. Sugamura, K. and Hinuma, Y.: Human retrovirus in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Immunol. Today, 6, 83-88, 1985.
2. Takeshita, T., Asao, H., Ohtani, K., Ishii N., Kumaki, S., Tanaka, N., Munakata, H., Nakamura, M. and Sugamura, K.: Cloning of the  chain of the human IL-2 receptor. Science, 257, 379-382, 1992.
3. Kondo, M., Takeshita, T., Ishii, N., Nakamura, M., Watanabe, S., Arai, K. and Sugamura, K.: Sharing of the interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor  chain between receptors for IL-2 and IL-4. Science, 262, 1874-1877,1993.
4. Kondo, M., Takeshita, T., Ishii, N., Nakamura, M., Watanabe, S., Arai, K. and Sugamura, K.: Sharing of the interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor  chain between receptors for IL-2 and IL-4. Science, 262, 1874-1877,1993.
5. Sugamura, K., Asao, H., Kondo, M., Tanaka, N., Ishii, N., Ohbo, K., Nakamura, M. and Takeshita, T.: The interleukin 2 receptor g chain: its role in the multiple cytokine receptor complexes and T cell development in XSCID. Annu. Rev. Immunol., 14, 179-205, 1996.
6. Takeshita, T., Arita, T., Higuchi, M., Asao, H., Endo, Y., Kuroda, H., Tanaka, N., Murata, K., Ishii, N. and Sugamura, K.: STAM, signal transducing adaptor molecule, is associated with Janus kinases and involved in signaling for cell growth and c-myc induction. Immunity., 6, 449-457, 1997.
7. Murata, K., Ishii, N., Takano, H., Miura, S., Ndhlovu, L. C., Nose, M., Noda, T. and Sugamura, K.: Impairment of antigen-presenting cell function in mice lacking expression of OX40 ligand. J. Exp. Med., 191, 365-374, 2000
8. Sugamura, K., Ishii, N. and Weinberg, A. D.: Therapeutic targeting of the effector T-cell co-stimulatory molecule OX40. Nature Rev. Immunol., 4, 420-431, 2004.
9. Kobayashi, H., Tanaka, N., Asao, H., Miura, S., Kyuuma, M., Semura, K., Ishii, N. and Sugamura, K.: Hrs, a mammalian master molecule in vesicular transport and protein-sorting, suppresses the degradation of ESCRT proteins STAM1 and STAM2. J. Biol. Chem., 180:10468-10477, 2005.
10. Wang, X., Ria, M., Kelmenson, P. M., Eriksson, P., Higgins, D. C., Sammegard, A., Petros, C., Olsson, P. G., Forsman-Semb, K., Hamsten, A., Ishii, N., Sugamura, K., Lagercrantz, J. and Paigen, B.: Positional identification of OX40 ligand as a gene that determines atherosclerosis susceptibility. Nature Genetics,37:365-372, 2005.
 
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