Yasuhiro Koga MD, PhD

Prof. Koga is one of the leading scientists in the medical probiotic/prebiotic science and also an opinion leader in the field of probiotics/prebiotics industries in Japan. He graduated Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, one of the major medical schools in Japan, in 1978, got MD and then worked as a clinician for several years. After that he went to Kyushu University Graduate School and got PhD in the field of immunology in 1984. Since 1993, he has been appointed to Professor and Chairperson, Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Tokai University School of Medicine. He has founded Japanese Society for Probiotic Science and taken the president of it since 1998. JSPS has become a scientific partner of International Scientific Conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics since 2010.