Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research
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Masutaka Furue

Biography

Dr. Masutaka Furue was graduated from School of Medicine, University of Tokyo as M.D. in 1980, and received Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 1986. He worked under Dr. Stephen I. Katz as a research fellow in Dermatology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, U.S.A. from 1986-1988. He was an Associate Professor, Yamanashi Medical University from 1992 -1995, and moved to University of Tokyo as an Associate Professor in 1995. He has been a Chairman and Professor of Department of Dermatology, Kyushu University since 1997. He was a Vice Director of Kyushu University Hospital in 2002-2004, and is now a Vice Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences of Kyushu University from 2011. His interests are in the areas of atopic dermatitis, cutaneous neoplasms, dioxin and health, and immune-allergo-dermatology. He was Presidents of the 10th International Symposium on Dendritic Cells in Fundamental and Clinical Immunology, 2008; the 108th annual meeting of the Japanese Dermatological Associacion, 2009; First Eastern Asia Dermatology Congress, 2010; and the 13th annual meeting of the Japanese Pressure Ulcer Society, 2011.

Research Interest

Atopic dermatitis, Skin tumors, Dioxin and health, Immuno-allergo-dermatology