Dr. Kazuhide Takada is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Microbiology at Nihon University School of Medicine. He completed his M.D. at St. Marianna University School of Medicine
in 2013 and holds a Ph.D. from the Nihon University Graduate School of
Medicine, awarded in 2019. Basic science research under Dr. Takada’s direction focuses on the interactions between vaginal microbiome and epithelial barrier functions, with a strong interest in probiotic applications of Lactobacillus for the treatment of vaginal dysbiosis. He was awarded the “Best Reviewer Award” by the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research in 2019. He has also received research grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Yakult Bio-Science Foundation, and Akaeda Medical Resarch Foundation, among others. His research fields focus on vagina flora, gardnerella vaginalis, and atopobium vaginae.
Prof. Dr. Satoshi Hayakawa graduated Nihon University School of Medicine and obtained an M.D. in 1983. After 3 years clinical training in Nihon University Itabashi Hospital, he studied reproductive
genetics with the late Dr. Susumu Ohno and molecular immunology with the late Dr. Takeshi Matsunaga at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope Medical Center, California, from 1985 to 1986. Returning to Japan, he obtained his PhD. from Nihon University and has studied at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pathology in Nihon University, in addition to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Microbiology
and Infectious Disease Control and Clinical Immunology. He has a wide range of research interests such as mucosal immunity in female reproductive organs, cancer immunology, evolutionary medicine, as well as the pathography of famous musicians, artists and monarchs. For the first time, he discovered extra-thymic T cell differentiation in human decidual tissues and characterized their regulatory nature. For the past few years, he has concentrated on the research of the mechanisms of vertical HIV transmission and involvement of local immune systems as well as the molecular epidemiology of paediatric viral infections and the mass immune status of
south east Asian children.
