International Scientific Programme Committee

Yuji Naito

Yuji Naito, M.D., Ph.D., obtained his M.D. degree at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan in 1983, and performed Ph.D. studies at the same university from 1983–1993. He received the Young Investigator Award of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research International, Torino, in 1992. He is currently an Associate Professor of Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, where he investigates the role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases and carcinogenesis.

Recent focus of his research is to determine the role of post-translational modification of proteins by oxidative stress in gastro-intestinal inflammation. In addition, his group has demonstrated the roles of gaseous molecules, nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen sulfoxide in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases. He and his group recently published two important books entitled “Free Radical Biology in Digestive Diseases” and “Gas Biology Research in Clinical Practice”.

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