Kazuhiro Matsuo PhD

Kazuhiro Matsuo is a Professor at the Institute for Vaccine Research and Development at Hokkaido University, Japan. He started mycobacterial research in 1986 and first, he cloned the alpha antigen (antigen 85B) gene from BCG (J. Bacteriol., 1988). Based on it, he established a foreign antigen secretion system in the BCG vaccine strain (Infect. Immun., 1990). This was the first report on a recombinant BCG-secreting exogeneous antigen.