Kazuyoshi Takeda graduated from the School of Dentistry of Tohoku University in 1987 and he has been lecturing with the Department of Immunology in the School of Medicine of Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan since 1999.
He is a member of the Japanese Cancer Association, Japanese Society for Immunology, Japanese Association for metastasis research, Japanese Society for molecular cell biology of Macrophage,
Society for Fundamental Cancer Immunology and Society for Natural Immunity.
In the year 2000, he was awarded the prestigious Japanese Cancer Association Encouragement Prize.