Keynote Speakers

Dr. Takuya Mizuno graduated from the faculty of agriculture, University of Tokyo, and received his DVM at 1997. He joined Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1997 as a PhD student and graduated with a PhD in 2001. During his PhD program at the Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, he studied an analysis of apoptotic mechanism in FIV infection.

After he received PhD in 2001, he joined the Dr. Thomas L. Rothstein Lab at Boston University as Postdoctoral Associate, and he had mainly studied the signaling pathway of B cells in immune response. In 2004, he moved back to Japan to join the Dr. Daisuke Kitamura Lab at Tokyo University of Science as Postdoctoral Associate to continue his study about B cell signaling response.

In 2005, he moved to Yamaguchi to be an associate professor of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture of Yamaguchi University. He was promoted to a professor of laboratory of Veterinary Clinical Pathology at 2011. He has been served as a principal investigator of Laboratory of Veterinary Clinical Pathology at Yamaguchi University, and he has also worked as a clinical veterinarian in the Unit of Veterinary Internal Medicine at Yamaguchi University Animal Medical Center. He became a DeFacto member of AiCVIM (Internal Medicine) at 2019.

His research interest has been directed at the development of a novel cancer therapy for dogs and cats, such as oncolytic virotherapy, antibody therapy, cancer vaccine, and CAR-T cell therapy.

He received the Veterinary Science Young Investigator Award in 2000, and Veterinary Science Awards in 2021-2022.