Yasuyuki Arai MD, PhD

Dr. Yasuyuki Arai graduate of the Medical Science Department in Kyoto University’s Faculty of Medicine (2006). After clinical training at Kitano Hospital (Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute) and Kurashiki Central Hospital, graduated from the doctoral course at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Medicine (hematology, oncology). Subsequently engaged in immunology research for three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (USA). After returning to Japan and working as a clinical fellow at Kyoto University Hospital’s Hematology and Oncology Department, in 2018 became an assistant professor at the hospital’s Departments of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy (today, Center for Research and Application of Cellular Therapy, Department of Clinical Laboratory). Works on the development and application of cell therapy, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.