Dr. Kazuya Shimoda
Kazuya Shimoda, MD, PhD, is a professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Miyazaki. Dr. Shimoda received his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1987, and trained in internal medicine, hematology, and in research in Fukuoka. From 1994 to 1996, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Jim Ihle’s Lab, where the vital and essential role of JAK in cytokine signaling was discovered, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis. From then on, Dr. Shimoda continued bench research on cytokine signal transduction in normal and abnormal hematopoiesis, focusing on both basic sciences to understand the molecular mechanism of myeloproliferative neoplasms and translational approaches directed at improving prognosis. Dr. Shimoda also plays the central role in the myelofibrosis registry project in Japan, which is prospectively conducted by National Research Group on Idiopathic Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes.