Background
Shimada, Atsuyoshi was born on February 12, 1963 in Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. Son of Atsunobu and Mineko Shimada
Shimada, Atsuyoshi was born on February 12, 1963 in Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. Son of Atsunobu and Mineko Shimada
Doctor of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan, 1988; Doctor in Medical Science, Kyoto University, Japan, 1992.
Fellow Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto, 1992—1993. Visiting fellow National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, 1993—1995. Resident Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, 1995—1997.
Research scientist Columbia University, 1997. Research associate Nagasaki University, Japan, 1998. Laboratory director Institute Development Research, Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan, since 1998.
(SHIMADA Atsuyoshi -)
Member of Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, Society for Neuroscience, New York Academy of Sciences, American Society Investigative Pathology, Japanese Society of Pathology, Japanese Society of Neuropathology, Japanese Neuroscience Society, Japan Society for Biomedical Gerontology
1 child Tomo-oki.
Based on his training in experimental pathology at Kyoto University and clinical neuropathology at Columbia University, Atsuyoshi Shimada has been constructing his biomedical science by combining fundamental techniques of histology and neuroanatomy with molecular biology, omics analyses and behavioral neurobiology. He studied basic mechanisms underlying brain aging, neurodegeneration, neuronal development and excitotoxic neuronal injury as well as roles for lipid mediators in the brain. His present research interest is in how the brain and immune system interact with each other by way of cell dynamics and intercellular chemical mediators. He has a concept that such brain-immune interaction is a bioregulatory mechanism and its disturbances cause a variety of psychiatric and neurological diseases. In the Central Hospital of Aichi Human Service Center, he is practicing surgical pathology and providing autopsy services, which defines his career path as a physician-scientist.