Masaru Ishii

Masaru Ishii, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University) was graduated from the Osaka University Medical School in 1998, and then worked as a physician specialized in rheumatology and allergology. He studied in the National Institutes of Health as a research fellow supported by the Human Frontier Science Program (2006-2008), as a laboratory chief in Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center (Associate Professor; 2008-2011, Professor; 2011-2013), and then appointed as a professor and chairman of the Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, since 2013. The bulk of his studies have so far elucidated the immune cellular dynamics in vivo, with a special focus on the phenomena inside the bone cavity, by using intravital multiphoton-based bone imaging that he has originally developed. His study is not limited in the field of bone immunology, but is currently covering diverse research topics where cells are dynamically moving, such as immune cell migration in inflammatory sites and hematopoiesis and its niche. Ishii has authored over 160 publications in this field and has so far received several prestigious award such as The Young Investigator Award, The Japanese Medical Association (2013), The JSPS Prize (2014), Setsuro Ebashi Prize (2019), and the Osaka Science Prize (2020). He serves as a Director of International Federation of Musculoskeletal Research Societies, the Vice President of the Japanese Society for Bone and Mineral Research, a Director for the Japanese Society of Inflammation and Regeneration.