Kiyoshi Takeda

Dr. Takeda, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Osaka University, has been studying the intestinal immune system, which maintains homeostasis by discriminating between invasive pathogens and non-pathogenic environmental factors. A recent findings by his lab regarding colonic immunoglobulin A-secreting cells, were interesting in that it revealed a role of a lymphoid tissue in the appendix. He was selected as one of the “Highly Cited Researchers” by Thomson Reuters CO, USA.