Senior Lecturer/Deputy Director
Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine, Nara Medical University
Kashihara, Nara, Japan
Kazuya obtained a license of Medical Doctor in the Faculty of Medicine at Nara Medical University in Japan (2011). Subsequently, he was trained for five years as a hematologist at Kurashiki Central Hospital in Japan. In 2016, he started his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Masanori Matsumoto in the Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine at Nara Medical University which he successfully defended in 2020. He was also involved in the management of the Japanese registry data for both congenital and immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (cTTP and iTTP). In July 2021, he started to work as a Postdoc in the Laboratory for Thrombosis Research (Prof. Dr. Karen Vanhoorelbeke. KU Leuven, Belgium). After a two-year successful fellowship, he got promoted to senior lecturer/deputy director in the Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine at Nara Medical University in Japan.
His research interest focuses on studying the immune response in iTTP and developing a novel immune-modulating therapy for iTTP and ultimately for any antibody-mediated autoimmune disorders.
MC 02.1 - Challenging cases of TMA
Sunday, June 23, 2024
12:15 – 13:00 ICT