Hojo/Tei Group
member
Staffs
- Associate Professor Hironori HOJO
Education
- 2000 Meiwa High School, Aichi, Japan
- 2005 B.S., School of Pharmacy, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
- 2007 M.S., Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
- 2011 Ph.D., University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Training
- 2005-2007 Master's Student, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
- 2007-2011 PhD Student, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- 2012-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Academic Appointments
- 2016 Project Researcher, Department of Bioengineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2016 Project Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017 Assistant Professor, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2019ー Associate Professor, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
- 2008-2011 Research Fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (DC1)
- 2011-2014 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (PD)
- 2012 The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Young Investigator Travel Grant
- 2014-2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Japan Society for Promotion of Science
- 2015 ASBMR Young Investigator Award
- 2016 Nakatomi Foundation Research Grant
- 2017 Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation Research Grant
- 2017 The Kurata Grant
- 2018 Takeda Science Foundation Research Grant
- 2018 Mochida Memorial Foundation Research Grant
- 2018 Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Grant
- 2019 ASBMR Rising Star Award
- 2020 Public Health Science Research Grant
Assistant professor Hiroyuki OKADA
Education
- 2002 Kanazawa University Senior High School, Kanazawa, Japan
- 2008 M.D., University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 2020 Ph.D., University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Training
- 2002-2008 Medical Student, Faculty of medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2008-2010 Junior Resident Program, University of Tokyo Hospital
- 2010-2013 Senior Resident Program, Orthopedic Surgery & Spinal Surgery, University of Tokyo Hospita
- 2016-2020 PhD Student, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate school of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Academic Appointments
- 2010-2012 Instructor, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Center, Saitama Medical Center, Kawagoe, Japan
- 2020- Assistant Professor, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Qualifications
- National Board of Medicine, Clinical Trainer
- Certified Board Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Certificated Board Emergency Physician of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine
- Certified Member of Japanese College of Infectious Control Doctors
- Certified Member of Japanese Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Physician
Awards
2018 Best poster award, 3rd winter seminar of Japanese society of osteoimmunology
2018 Travel Grant Award, 7th International Conference on Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems
2018 Best poster award, 4th Japanese society of osteoimmunology
2018 Travel Grant Award, 20th Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology Congress
2018 The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), Travel Grant Award
2019 Japan college of Rheumatology 2019 International Concurrent Workshop Excellent Abstract Award
2020 Best poster award, 5th winter seminar of Japanese society of osteoimmunology
Education
- 1983 Kaisei High School, Tokyo, Japan
- 1989 M.D., University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 Ph.D., University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Training
- 1989-1991 Resident in Internal Medicine, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- 1991-1993 Endocrine Fellow, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 1993-1997 PhD Student, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 1995-1998 Research Fellow in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Academic Appointments
- 1998-2001 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- 2001-2002 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- 2002-2007 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003- Consultant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- 2003- Vice Director, Division of Tissue Engineering, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007- Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2016- Professor, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
- 1996-1998 Japan Society for Promotion of Science Award, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 Medical Discovery Award, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- 1997 Young Investigator Award, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), USA
- 1998 Travel Award, ASBMR, USA
- 1998-2000 Medical Foundation Award, The Medical Foundation, Boston, MA
- 1999 John Haddad Young Investigator Award, ASBMR, USA
- 2003 Daiwa Securities Health Foundation Award, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 Public Trust Araki Foundation Award, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007-2010 Terumo Life Science Foundation Award, Kanagawa, Japan
- 2008 Japanese Society for Biomaterials Award
Researchers and Assistants
Administrator
Nozomi Nagumo 
Reserach Fellow
Yoshiaki Kitaura
Visiting Fellow
Kenichi Yamamoto
Research Assistant
Asuka Uchida
Akiko Nakamichi
Affiliate Members
Shinsuke Ohba (Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University)
Fumiko Yano (Project Associate Professor, Depatment of Bone and Cartilage Regenerative Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital)
Yujiro Maeda (Project Assistant Professor, Medical Innovation Initiative, The University of Tokyo)
Kosuke Kanke (Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital)
Miki Kashiwagi (Clinical Fellow, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital)
Shoko Onodera (Assistant Professor, Tokyo Dental College)
Students
D3 Shoichiro Tani (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine)
D2 Dahlia Talaat Mahmoud Eldeeb (Graduate School of Medicine, MEXT scholarship student)
D2 Mika Nakayama (Graduate School of Engineering)
M2 Shant Nepal (Graduate School of Engineering, MEXT scholarship student)
M1 Sakurako Hayashi (Graduate School of Medicine)
