Motonobu Saito MD, PhD

Dr. Motonobu Saito is a lecturer at Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Japan. He practices cancer genome medicine at the Division of Cancer Genome Medicine, Fukushima Medical University Hospital (FMU hospital).

Dr. Saito’s research interest is genome analysis and molecular biology to understand gastric carcinogenesis and other cancers. Based on these genomic and epigenomic analyses, he explores developing targeted therapies for malignant cancers. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and has an H-index of 23 with over 1,700 citations. He was awarded the National Institute of Health’s Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), USA in 2010 and the best presentation award at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology, Japan in 2018.

Dr. Saito received his M.D. and Ph.D. from FMU in 2001 and 2011. He trained in gastrointestinal tract surgery at FMU. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA, and a Staff Scientist, at the Division of Genome Biology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR, active member) and the Japanese Cancer Association.