Conference Hosts
19th IHIWS Co-Chairs
Please meet the 19th IHIWS Co-Chairs below:
Katsushi Tokunaga
Director, Genome Medical Science Project, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM)
Director, National Center Biobank Network (NCBN)
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Takashi Shiina
Professor, Dept. Mol Life Sci, Tokai University School of Medicine
19th IHIWS Advisory Committee
Please meet the Advisory Committee below:
- Marcelo Fernandez-Viña (San Francisco, US)
- Sebastiaan Heidt (Leiden, Netherlands)
- Annette M Jackson (Durham, US)
- Takeo Juji (Tokyo, Japan)
- Ann-Margaret Little (Glasgow, UK)
- James McCluskey (Melbourne, Australia)
- Martin Maiers (Minneapolis, US)
- Steven Marsh (London, UK)
- Effie W Petersdorf (Seattle, US)
- Eric Spierings (Utrecht, Netherlands)
- John Trowsdale (Cambridge, UK)
19th IHIWS Local Organising Committee
| Name | Affiliation | Specialty |
| Tatsuo ICHINOHE | Hiroshima U, Hiroshima | HSCT |
| Miyuki FURUSAWA | Tokyo Women’s Medical University / Yocho-machi Clinic , Tokyo | Clinical Testing |
| Hiroki HASHIGUCHI | Japanese Red Cross Fukuoka Hosipital, Fukuoka | Clinical testing |
| Kazuyoshi HOSOMICHI | Tokyo U Pharm Life Sci, Tokyo | NGS typing, KIR |
| Seik-Soon (Charles) KHOR | Natl Center Global Health Med, Tokyo | NGS typing, HLA/KIR imputation |
| Takafumi KIMURA | Japan Red Cross, Osaka | iPS, HSCT |
| Takaaki KOBAYASHI | Aichi Med U, Nagoya | SOT, epitope |
| Yang Sook KOH | Japan Red Cross, Osaka | Clinical Testing |
| Satoko MORISHIMA | Central Japan Cord Blood Bank, Aichi | HSCT |
| Taisei MUSHIRODA | Riken, Yokohama | Pharmacogenomics |
| Kazutoyo OSOEGAWA | Stanford Blood Center, San Francisco – Natl Center Global Health Med, Tokyo | NGS typing, bioinformatics |
| Takero SHINDO | Hiroshima U, Hiroshima | HSCT, KIR, epitope |
| Shingo SUZUKI | Tokai U, Kanagawa | NGS typing, software development |
| Daisuke TAKAHASHI | Japan Red Cross, Tokyo | NGS typing, Clinical testing |
| Hidenori TANAKA | HLA Lab, Kyoto | Clinical testing |