Tetsuro Sasada
Tetsuro Sasada
Department of Immunology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka
Biography
Dr. Sasada received his M.D. in 1987 from Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, and performed his training in gastroenterological surgery at Kyoto University Hospital and Tazuke-Kofukai Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in Pathology from Kyoto University in 1997, where he studied the molecular mechanisms of resistance to anti-cancer drugs in cancer cells. He did his postdoctoral research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the laboratory of Dr. Ellis Reinherz from 1998 to 2001, where he focused on T cell immunology, particularly the molecular mechanisms of T cell selection, differentiation, and activation.