Dr. Akitada Ichinose (JP) - ÁOK, 2003. május 24.

Dr. Akitada Ichinose, a Yamagata Egyetem (Japán) professzorának díszdoktori avatása a Debreceni Egyetemen 2003. május 24.

Dr. Akitada Ichinose received a medical degree in 1978 at the University of Kagoshima, Japan. Within 5 years he completed residency in Internal Medicine plus a research fellowship. He received two Ph.D. degrees (in Science and in Medicine).

In 1983 he left Japan for 10 years to work at the University of Washington, Seattle. Since 1992 he has been a full professor and chairman of the Department of Molecular Pathobiology at the University School of Medicine, Yamagata.

He became one of the top experts in the molecular genetics of clotting factors. His main research area is blood coagulation factor XIII and proteins of the fibrinolytic pathway. He sequenced the gene and the protein of both factor XIII subunits and explored the molecular genetics of factor XIII and plasminogen deficiencies and polymorphisms. He made basic discoveries in the structure-function relationship of different clotting and fibrinolytic factors.

He has produced over 120 scientific publications, which were cited several thousand times in highly respected international journals.

He has close contacts with scientists at three departments of our university, and he was the organizer of the first Joint Japanese-Hungarian Conference on Transglutaminases in Yamagata, Japan.