EVENT: Raine Lecture - Transcriptional Regulation of Self-antigens in the Thymus for Immune Tolerance

Professor Takayanagi combines his experiences as an orthopaedic surgeon and an immunologist; He studied in the laboratory of Professor Tadatsugu Taniguchi (The University of Tokyo) the mechanism of bone destruction in rheumatoid arthritis, which focused on the regulation of osteoclasts by T cells. He was Professor of Tokyo Medical and Dental University from 2003 to 2012, and pursued the interdisciplinary field of osteoimmunology, which covers various researches on shared mechanisms and interactions between immune and bone systems. Since October 2009, Professor Takayanagi has been the research director of Takayanagi Osteonetwork Project as Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Program of JST. Since May 2012, he has been appointed as Professor of Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Professor Takayanagi has regularly published work in the high-ranking journals Science, Nature and Cell. He will present his Raine Lecture on work recently publish in Cell; 2015 Nov 5;163(4):975-87.