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Kenya Honda
Disciplines: Life sciences
Status: Expert member
Education: Kyoto University
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8937-9835
Biography
Dr. Honda is an inventor of Vedanta’s lead program. He is an expert in innate immune signaling and mucosal immunology. His work has been published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science, and Cell. Dr. Honda is a recipient of the Incitement Award of the Japanese Society for Immunology. He received his M.D. from Kobe University School of Medicine and his Ph.D. from Kyoto University School of Medicine in Japan.
Employment
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
Laboratory for Gut Homeostasis
Keio Gijuku Daigaku Igakubu Daigakuin Igaku Kenkyuka
Microbiology and Immunology
Education
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine
Kobe University, School of Medicine
Self description
Our team is focusing on immunological attributes of the microbiota and trying to identify responsible members of the microbiota and their derived factors that deeply affect the immune system. Our long term goal is to develop a way to manipulate and normalize compositions of the gut microbiota to treat various disease conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and allergy.