Education
Sakaguchi studied at the University of Kyoto. He obtained a Master"s degree in 1976 and then a Doctor of Philosophy in 1982.
坂口 志文
physician university professor
Sakaguchi studied at the University of Kyoto. He obtained a Master"s degree in 1976 and then a Doctor of Philosophy in 1982.
He is best known for the discovery of regulatory T cells and to describe their role in the immune system. This discovery is used in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. In Kyoto, he continued his study of pathology and immunology.
As postdoc, he worked at the Johns Hopkins University and to Stanford University in the United States.
In 1989, he began his teaching career and became an assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute, and then returned to Japan in 1991, where he became a researcher at the Rikagaku Kenkyūsho and director of the Department of Pathology immune Metropolitan Institute Tokyo. In 1999 he became professor of experimental pathology at Kyoto University.
Since 2007 he is a teacher in his own laboratory at the Osaka University.
National Academy of Sciences.