Prof. Shigekazu Nagata Osaka University Medical School, Japan

Shigekazu Nagata, PhD, is a Professor of Genetics. He was educated as a biochemist at the University of Tokyo. He joined the Osaka Bioscience Institute as Head of the Molecular Biology Department in 1987. There, he started to work on the Fas and Fas ligand system, which led him to... read morepropose "A death factor and its receptor". Since 1995, Dr. Nagata has been a Professor in the Department of Genetics at Osaka University Medical School. He is an editorial board member of Immunity, Cell Death and Differentiation and International Immunology.