Shin-Ichi NISHIKAWA, M. D., Ph. D.  

Shin-Ichi Nishikawa received his M. D. from the Kyoto University School of Medicine in 1973. He performed his internship and residency in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Kyoto University Chest Disease Research Institute, before taking an assistant professorship in the same department in 1979. He spent the period from 1980-82 at the University of Cologne Institute for Genetics before returning to the Chest Disease Research Institute, where he was appointed associate professor in the Department of Microbiology in 1983. He moved to the Kumamoto University Medical School in 1987 to take a professorship in the Department of Immunology, and returned to Kyoto in 1993, as professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Kyoto Graduate School of Medicine. He was appointed CDB group director in 2000.