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Akitake Mukasa

Akitake Mukasa MD, PhD

Neurosurgery
Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan

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Dr Musaka is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Kumamoto University. He completed his undergraduate training and PhD at Tokyo University. He has held appointments at the Fuji Brain Institute, Showa General Hospital, the Genome Science Division at the University of Tokyo, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in San Diego and the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tokyo.
He has special interests in Neuro-Oncology (especially in the treatment of malignant brain tumors, molecular genetics & biology of brain tumors, molecular targeted therapy and individualised therapy), image-guided surgery and awake surgery. He has published widely, with a special focus on molecular aspects of neuro-oncology.
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