Professor
Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Disclosure(s): Asahikasei Phrma: Honoraria; GSK: Honoraria; MSD: Honoraria; Pfizer: Honoraria; Shionogi: Honoraria; Sumitomo Parma: Honoraria
Hiroshi Kakeya
Professor,
Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Infection Control, Fungal Infection, Chemotherapy
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Japan, Mar 1998 - Postgraduate School, Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine.
M.D. in Japan, Mar 1992 - Nagasaki University School of Medicine.
APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University 2014 to Present.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Journals
1. Kakeya H, Udono H, Ikuno N, et al. A 77- kilodalton protein of Cryptococcus neoformans, a member of the heat shock protein 70 family, is a major antigen detected in the sera of mice with pulmonary cryptococcosis. Infect. Immun. 65:1653-1658, 1997
2. Kakeya H, Udono H, Maesaki S, et al. Heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) as a major target of the antibody response in patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis. Clin Exp Immunol. 115:485-890, 1999
3. Kakeya H, Miyazaki Y, Miyazaki H, et al. Genetic analysis of azole resistance in the Darlington strain of Candida albicans. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 44:2985-2990, 2000
others
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Kakeya H, et al. National trends in the Japanese distribution of Candida species causing candidemia during 2003-2017: a report by the Epidemiological Investigation Committee for Human Mycoses in Japan. ID Week 2019, Washington DC
Kakeya H, et al. Clinical investigation of Bacteroides bacteremia in a tertiary hospital, Anaerobe 2018, Las Vegas, NV
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Lecturer, Nagasaki University, Osaka University, Niigata University and Okayama University
• Medical mycology, Japanese
• Infection control, Japanese
HONORS / AWARDS
Awarded annual award by Japanese Mycoses Forum, 2001
Awarded annual award by Japanese Society for Medical Mycology, 2022
LANGUAGES
Japanese (native)
MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
The Japanese Respiratory Society
The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
The Japanese Society of Chemotherapy
The Japanese Society for Medical Mycology