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Prof. Takanori Kanai from Keio University, Japan will join the Targeting Microbiota meeting scheduled on October 8-9, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan and will give a presentation entitled "Microbiota and gastroenterology: Point of view and perspectives".

About Dr. Takanori Kanai

Dr. Takanori Kanai, MD, PhD, is a Japanese gastroenterologist currently serving as Dean of the Keio University School of Medicine and Chair of the Keio University Graduate School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Japan Medical Specialist Organization and an affiliated member of the Science Council of Japan since 2023.

He graduated with a BSc from Keio University School of Medicine in 1988 and earned his PhD in Medicine from the same institution in 1994. His academic career began at Keio University School of Medicine, where he worked as an Instructor of Medicine from 1989 to 1998, followed by two years at the Keio Cancer Center. He then joined the Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 2000, where he served as Instructor, Assistant Professor, and later as a visiting Clinical Professor. In 2007, he returned to Keio University as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2013. He became Vice Dean in 2017 and Dean in 2021.

Dr. Kanai has held numerous editorial roles, including Section Editor for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Associate Editor for the Journal of Gastroenterology, and Editorial Board Member for the American Journal of Physiology – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. His research has earned him multiple honors, including the Young Investigator Award at the International Congress of Mucosal Immunology (2001), the Kitasato-Kitajima Memorial Science Award (2008), the Keio Science Promotion Award (2009), the Japanese Society of Immunology’s Human Immunology Research Award (2020), and the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology Academic Award (2021). He was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in both 2023 and 2024.

He is President of the Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Immunology and serves on the boards of several professional organizations, including the Asian Society of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Japanese Societies of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Coloproctology, Colon Testing, and Sterile Materials Biology. His specialties include inflammatory bowel disease, gut microbiota, immunology, neuroimmunology, and gastroenterology.

First Conjoint Meeting between ISM and RIKEN,
October 8-9, 2025 - Tokyo, Japan
www.microbiota-ism.com/tokyo/

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