Masahiro Ono MD, PhD

Dr. Masahiro Ono graduated from the Medical School of Kyoto University, receiving MD in 1999. Subsequently, he was trained as a dermatologist, and joined the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University in 2002, when he started his career in immunology. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 by a study on regulatory T cells (Treg) and later identified the interaction of the Treg-specific transcription factor Foxp3 and the transcription factor Runx1.

In 2009, he obtained a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Fellowship, and joined University College London (UCL), when he established a new genomic analysis tool using a multidimensional method, Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). In 2012, he was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship and established his lab in UCL. In 2015, he moved to the Department of Life Sciences, Imperial. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 2018.