He graduated and obtained his PhD at Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Nagoya, Japan), studying transcriptional regulation of inflammatory cytokines. After he studied mycobacterial infection at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Tokyo, Japan), he joined Dr. Patrizio Caturegli’s lab as a post-doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Pathology and started a research in autoimmune thyroid diseases. He became a research associate and received an ATA research grant in 2008. He received Young Investigator Award from Asia Oceania Thyroid Association and Japan Thyroid Association in 2009. Press Release