Jun Kunisawa PhD

Prof Jun Kunisawa is Deputy Director General of the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health, and Nutrition (NIBIOHN), Japan, and serves as Director of the Microbial Research Center for Health and Medicine, one of the centers in NIBIOHN. He also serves as an Adjunct/Visiting Professor at Osaka University, Kobe University, The University of Tokyo, Hiroshima University, and Waseda University, Japan. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2001 and received postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. In 2004, he was recruited by The University of Tokyo, where he spent 9 years as an Assistant and Associate Professor before moving to NIBIOHN to establish a new laboratory in 2013. In 2019, he was promoted to Director, and subsequently to Deputy Director General in 2024. His research has been focusing on the immune regulation by gut environment (e.g., diets and commensal bacteria) and its association with immune diseases and health. He is also doing translational research for the development of vaccines, medicines, and healthcare.