Scientific Session 4
CMI-P-19
Masaya Imoto
Juntendo University
Professor
Japan
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Cell biology, Biochemistry, Chemical biology
Received an M.S. from Yamaguchi University in 1980, and a Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1988. Instructor (1989-1991), Assistant professor (1991-1996), Associate Professor (1996-2002) and Professor (2002-2020) of Keio University, 2020 to date: Emeritus Professor of Keio University and Professor of Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
Takei T et al Ubiquilin-2 liquid droplets catalyze α-synuclein fibril formation. EMBO J Accepted (2025)
Date Y, et al Novel autophagy inducers by accelerating lysosomal clustering against Parkinson's disease. Elife. 13:e98649. (2024)
Kataura T, et al Targeting the autophagy-NAD axis protects against cell death in Niemann-Pick type C1 disease models. Cell Death Dis. 15(5):382. (2024)
Kataura T et al Autophagy promotes cell survival by maintaining NAD levels. Dev Cell. 57:2584-2598 (2022).
Sasazawa Y et al, Oxidative stress-induced phosphorylation of JIP4 regulates lysosomal positioning in coordination with TRPML1 and ALG2. EMBO J. 41:e111476. (2022)
Kataura T, et al A chemical genomics-aggrephagy integrated method studying functional analysis of autophagy inducers. Autophagy 17:1856-1872 (2021)
Mizotani Y et al 14-3-3εa directs the pulsatile transport of basal factors towards the apical domain for lumen growth in tubulogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115(38):E8873-E8881 (2018)
Saito S, et al. A new-type of Androgen Receptor (AR) Antagonist, that overcomes resistance to AR-targeted Therapy. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 55(8):2728-32 (2016)
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