Prof. Takao KOIKE (Japan)

Education:

April 1966; matriculate in Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
March 1972; graduate from Hokkaido University School of Medicine
Postgraduate Training and Academic Position:
1972-1975: Residency
Hokkaido University Hospital
1975-1978; Research Fellow:
Department of Pathology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
1978-1980; Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA (Prof Norman Talal)
1980-1982; Assistant Professor,
Department of Pathology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
1982-1992; Assistant Professor,
Department of Medicine, Chiba University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
1992-Present; Professor of Medicine ,
Department of Medicine , Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
1998: Chairman of 8th International Symposium of Antiphospholipid Antibodies (Sapporo)
2005-2009: President of Japan College of Rheumatology

First paper:
Differential sensitivity of functional subsets of T cells to the cytotoxicity of natural T-lymphocytotoxic autoantibody of systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheum 22 : 123-129, 1979.

Most cited paper:
Anticardiolipin cofactor (s) and differential diagnosis of autoimmune disease. Lancet 336 : 177-178, 1990.

Most favorite paper:
Anticardiolipin antibodies recognize £]2 -glycoprotein I structure altered by interacting with an oxygen modified solid phase surface. J. Exp. Med. 179 : 457-462, 1994