CV-F Ishikawa

Curriculum Vitae
Fumihiko Ishikawa, MD, PhD.
Personal Information
Group Director
Laboratory for Human Disease Model
RIKEN Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI)
Date of Birth: 1972/04/12 (39 y.o.)
Degree
1995 October: United States Medical License Examination Step 1 (Basic Medical Science) passed
1996 November: United States Medical License Examination Step 2 (Clinical Medical Science) passed
1997 May: Japan Medical License Examination (M.D.) passed
2003 March 25th: Ph.D. (Kyushu University)
Educational/Professional Background
1991: Admission to Kyushu University Medical School
1997 Mar.: Graduation from Kyushu University Medical School
1997 Apr.: Residency training at First Department of Medicine, Kyushu University
1997 Oct: Residency training at Third Department of Medicine, Kyushu University
1998 Apr-2000 Sep and 2002 Apr-2003 Mar:Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
1998 Oct- 2002 Mar:Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Medicine, Division of
Experimental Hematology (Makio Ogawa lab), Post-doctoral fellow
2003 Apr-2005 Mar:Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Post-doctoral fellow
2005 Apr-2005 Dec: Instructor, Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science,
Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
2006 Jan - 2011 Dec: Unit leader, Research Unit for Human Disease Model, RCAI
2011 Dec - present: Group Director, Laboratory for Human Disease Model, RCAI
Awards
64th Japan Society of Hematology Meeting, Young Investigator Award
2007 2006 RIKEN RCAI Outstanding Contribution of the Year
2008 2007 RIKEN RCAI Excellent Paper of the Year
2008 Takeda Science Foundation Grant support [I] 2008
2009 Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, and Technology. Young Scientist Award
2010 2009 RIKEN RCAI Outstanding Contribution of the Year
2010 2009 RIKEN RCAI Excellent Paper of the Year
Review and Editorial Activity
2008-present: Leukemia editorial board member
Recent Selected Publications
1.Shultz LD, Saito Y, Najima Y, Tanaka S, Ochi T, Tomizawa M, Doi T, Sone A, Suzuki N, Fujiwara H,
Yasukawa M, Ishikawa F. Generation of functional human T-cell subsets with HLA-restricted immune
responses in HLA class I expressing NOD/SCID/IL2rγnull humanized mice. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107-29:13022-13027, 2010
2.Saito Y, Uchida N, Tanaka S, Suzuki N, Tomizawa-Murasawa M, Sone A, Najima Y, Takagi S, Aoki Y,
Wake A, Taniguchi S, Shultz LD, Ishikawa F. Induction of cell cycle entry eliminates human leukemia
stem cells in a mouse model of AML. Nature Biotechnology 28-3:275-280, 2010
3.Saito Y, Kitamura H, Hijikata A, Tomizawa-Murasaza M, Tanaka S, Takagi S, Uchida N, Suzuki N,
Sone A, Najima Y, Ozawa H, Wake A, Taniguchi S, Shultz LD, Ohara O, Ishikawa F. Identification of
therapeutic targets for quiescent, chemotherapy-resistant human leukemia stem cells. Science
Translational Medicine 2-17:17ra9,2010
4.Ishikawa F, Yoshida S, Saito Y, Hijikata A, Kitamura H, Tanaka S, Nakamura R, Tanaka T,
Tomiyama H, Saito N, Fukata M, Miyamoto T, Lyons B, Ohshima K, Uchida N, Taniguchi S, Ohara O,
Akashi K, Harada M, Shultz L D. Chemotherapy-resistant human AML stem cells home to and
engraft within the bone marrow endosteal region. Nature Biotechnology 25:1315-1321, 2007
5.Shultz LD, Ishikawa F, Greiner DL. Humanized mice in translational biomedical research. Nature
Reviews Immunology 7:118-130, 2007
6.Ishikawa, F., M. Yasukawa, B. Lyons, S. Yoshida, T. Miyamoto, G. Yoshimoto, T. Watanabe,K. Akashi,
L.D. Shultz, and M. Harada. 2005. Development of functional human blood and immune systems in
NOD/SCID/IL2 receptor {gamma} chainnull mice. Blood 106:1565-1573, 2005
7.Ishikawa, F., C.J. Drake, S. Yang, P. Fleming, H. Minamiguchi, R.P. Visconti, C.V. Crosby,
W.S. Argraves, M. Harada, L.L. Key, Jr., A.G. Livingston, J.R. Wingard, and M. Ogawa.
Transplanted human cord blood cells give rise to hepatocytes in engrafted mice.
Ann N Y Acad Sci 996:174-185, 2003
8.Ishikawa, F., A.G. Livingston, J.R. Wingard, S. Nishikawa, and M. Ogawa.An assay for long-term
engrafting human hematopoietic cells based on newborn NOD/SCID/beta2-microglobulin(null) mice.
Exp Hematol 30:488-494, 2002