Speaker

Masaru Ishii, M.D., Ph.D. graduated from Osaka University Medical School in 1998 and then worked as a physician specializing in rheumatology and internal medicine. He studied at the National Institutes of Health as a research fellow supported by the Human Frontier Science Program (2006-2008), as a laboratory chief in Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center (Associate Professor; 2008-2011, Professor; 2011-2013), and then appointed as a full Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University, since 2013. The bulk of his studies have so far elucidated the dynamic behaviors of immune cells, especially focusing on tissue-associated macrophages in various organs such as bone/joint, lung and liver, by using intravital multiphoton imaging that he has originally developed. He also serves as a Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine since 2025.

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