Keynote Speakers
Shingo Maeda
The University of Tokyo
Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Pathobiology, The University of Tokyo
Dr. Shingo Maeda graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Gifu University in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 2013. During his Ph.D. program at the Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, he studied the molecular biology of chronic enteropathy and intestinal lymphoma in dogs. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Animal Radiology, the University of Tokyo, studying the pathophysiology of food allergy using mouse models. In 2015, he joined the Laboratory of Veterinary Clinical Pathobiology at the University of Tokyo and began studying bladder and prostate cancer in dogs and humans. Currently, as a clinical veterinarian at the Veterinary Medical Center of the University of Tokyo, he works in the field of canine and feline urology (especially urologic tumors) and is also actively involved in both basic research using mouse models and clinical research using spontaneous canine and feline cases.
His research interests include the pathophysiology and immunological biology of spontaneous urological diseases—especially transitional cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, and acute/chronic kidney disease. He has been actively conducting veterinarian-initiated clinical trials of novel molecularly targeted drugs and immunotherapies for canine urothelial carcinoma, with some success to date. Dr. Maeda believes that good translational research should be able to help dogs and cats suffering from disease, pet owners, and future human patients. He also loves coffee, tennis, and cats.