Prof. Shinji Nakao Japanese Red Cross Ishikawa, Japan

Shinji Nakao attended Kanazawa University in Japan, and he obtained a medical degree in 1980 and earned PhD at Kanazawa University Graduate School in 1984. He worked for Dr. Neal S. Young at the National Institute of Health, as a postdoctoral fellow from 1987 to 1989, and became a professor... read moreof the Department of Medicine of Kanazawa University in 1999. Since retirement from his professor position, he has been working at the Japanese Red Cross Ishikawa Blood Center as Director General. He has been a leader of the clinical and basic research group of aplastic anemia, supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan. He is particularly interested in the immune pathophysiology of bone marrow failure, and has identified several useful markers reflecting immune pathophysiology, such as HLA-DRB1*15:01, small populations of PNH-type cells, and HLA class I allele-lacking leukocytes, all of which are being used for diagnosing immune bone marrow failure in clinical practice. He continues to see patients with bone marrow failure, and does research to identify auto-antigens of aplastic anemia.