中村祐輔博士/Dr. Yusuke Nakamura

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Current Positions

• President, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition

• Project Director for SIP (Strategic Innovation and Promotion Program) “AI Hospital Systems” assigned by the Japanese Prime Minister

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Nationality: Japanese

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Education

• Graduated from Osaka University Medical School, March 1977

• Medical Doctor's License in Japan, 1977 May

• Ph. D. of molecular genetics from Osaka University for a thesis entitled: "Sequences of cDNAs for human salivary and pancreatic alpha-amylases", 1984 August

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Occupation

• Second Department of Surgery, Osaka University School of Medicine, 1977 May-1981 March

• Research fellow, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, 1981 April-1984 October

• Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, 1984 October-1988 December

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 1987 September-1989 August

• Head of Biochemistry Department, Cancer Institute, Tokyo, 1989 April-1995 March

• Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Medical Science The University of Tokyo, 1994 October–2012 March

• Director, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 1995 April–2011 January

• Professor, Department of Clinical Genetics, Osaka University School of Medicine, 1996 April-1999 March

• Group leader for Genotyping, RIKEN SNP Research Center, 2000 April-2005 March

• Director, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, 2005 April-2010 March

• Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet, Secretary General, Office of Medical Innovation, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan, 2011 January-December

• Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Deputy Director, Center for Personalized Therapeutics, The University of Chicago, 2012 April-2018 June 

• Project Director for SIP (Strategic Innovation and Promotion Program) “AI Hospital Systems” assigned by the Japanese Prime Minister, 2018 April-2023 March

• Director of Cancer Precision Medicine Research Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (Tokyo), 2018 July-2022 March   

• President, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 2022 April-Present

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Members in the Editorial (or Advisory) Board for

• Annals of Human Genetics

• Cancer Science (Editor 2002-2009, Editor-in-Chief 2009-2018)

• Cancer Research (Senior Editor 2004-2007, Deputy Editor 2008-2009)

• Cell Cycle

• Clinical Genetics

• Genes Chromosomes & Cancer

• Molecular Cancer Research

• International Journal of Oncology

• Journal of Human Genetics (Editor-in-Chief 1997-2007)

• Neoplasia

• Oncotarget

• Cancer Report

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Members in

• Japan Society of Human Genetics (President, 2007-2010)

• Japanese Cancer Association (board member 2002-2013, President for the 2013 annual meeting)

• American Association of Cancer Research

• American Society of Human Genetics

• Science Council of Japan (2005-2012)

• Japanese Society of Cancer Molecular-targeted Therapy （President 2018-2021）

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Awards

• Honorary Citizenship, The State of Maryland, USA, 1991

• Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Award, 1992

• The Research Award of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 1993

• The Award of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics, 1995

• Takeda Medical Prize, 1996

• Keio Medical Science Prize, 2000

• The Tomizo Yoshida Award of the Japanese Cancer Association, 2002

• The Medal with a Purple Ribbon (for contributions to education and culture), 2004

• Bulgarian Academy of Medical Science, Foreign Member, 2006

• Chen Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in Human Genetic and Genomic Research (HUGO), 2010

• Member, Association of American Physicians (AAP), 2011

• Honorary Professor, Harbin Medical University, 2011

• IPIT Award, 2011

• Honorary Professor, Taipei Medical University, 2013

• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2014

• Honorary Professor, China Medical University, 2016

• Miguel Aleman Foundation XXX Health Conference Award, 2016

• Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, 2018

• Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, 2018

• Clarivate Citation Laureate 2020

• Person of Cultural Merit (an official Japanese recognition and honor which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions, 2021

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Meeting Organizer/President

• Co-chairman, Program Committee, AACR annual meeting, 2004

• JCA-AACR Cancer Conference Co-chairman with Prof. Peter Jones (at Waikoloa, Hawaii in February 5-9, 2010), 2010

• Co-chairman, Program Committee, AACR annual meeting, 2013

• President, 72th JCA (Japan Cancer Association) meeting (at Yokohama in October 3-5, 2013), 2013