Our department is the only one laboratory, which focuses mainly on rabies research among the Faculty of Medicine in Japan.

Name

Akira Nishizono
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Occupation

Professor, Executive Director / Executive Vice-President, (concorrently)

Degree

M.D., Ph.D. (Oita Medical University)

Biography

1985　Graduate from Oita Medical University
1989　Graduate from the Graduate school at Oita Medical University
1991　Assistant at the department of Microbiology, Oita University
1997　Assistant-Professor at Oita University
1999　Professor at Oita University

Themes / Research interests

Emerging / re-emerging virus infectious diseases, Vaccinology and travel medicine

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Committee

2018	to now	Chairperson of the Expert Committee on Viral diseases U.S. - Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program
2015	to now	Councilor of Japanese Sciety of Travel and Health
1998	to now	Councilor of The Japanese Society for Virology
2004		Journal of Medical Microbiology Editorial Board
2003	to now	Councilor of The Japanese Association for Infectious Disease