Dr Yoshiteru Kagawa
BHSc, MSHSc, PhD(Medicine)
Biography
Dr Kagawa completed his PhD at Yamaguchi University in Japan in March 2015. He received the prestigious Principal PhD Student Award of the Year (2015) from the Yamaguchi University Dean of Medicine. Afterward, Dr. Kagawa relocated to Tohoku University in Japan, where he worked in the Department of Anatomy at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. His research focused on lipid biology in the fields of neuroscience and cancer.
In 2023, Dr Kagawa was recruited as a Research Fellow at The Florey and joined the Neurodegeneration and Neuropathology Group. In this new role, Dr Kagawa dedicates his efforts to identifying biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and modifiable risk factors for non-Alzheimer’s dementia.
Career highlights
Awards and achievements
- 2023-2025 – AMED Collaborative Dementia Grant
- 2023-2025 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (23K10953)
- 2023-2024 – Researcher, Young Leaders Overseas Program Award
- 2022-2027 – Takeda Science Foundation Grant
- 2020-2024 – Promotion of Joint International Research (B) of KAKENHI Grant (20KK0225)
- 2020-2022 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (20K11527)
- 2020 – Encouragement Prize Winner, Japanese Society of Anatomical Society
- 2019-2021 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (19K09819)
- 2019-2021 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (19H04026)
- 2018-2020 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (18K19723)
- 2017 – Joint Research Grant with IDAC Tohoku University
- 2017-2018 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (17K15539)
- 2016-2018 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant (16H05116)
- 2015 – GSK Japan Research Grant
- 2015 – GONRYO grant for promotion of Medical Science
- 2015-2016 – Japan Society for the promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant)
- 2015 – Prize of Most Principal PhD Student of the Year 2015, Yamaguchi University
- 2014 – Yamaguchi University Research Grant Award, Yamaguchi University Foundation
- 2013 – Best Oral Presentation Award. 119th Medical Congress of Yamaguchi University
- 2013 – Yamaguchi University Travel Grant Award, Yamaguchi University Foundation
