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Yukinori Okada
Affiliation：The University of Tokyo, Japan
Technical Title：Professor
Yukinori Okada, M.D., PhD is the Professor of he University of Tokyo, and Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, and the Team Leader of RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences. He received the M.D. (2005) and PhD (2011) from the University of Tokyo. His research theme is the elucidation of mechanism where genetic variants in the populations affect clinical phenotypes of individuals, especially for autoimmune diseases and clinical biomarkers. Through active collaborative partnerships among the researchers in the field of human genetics, Prof. Okada have enormously conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of human complex traits and identified >15,000 novel genetic risk loci. He also has experiences for analyzing genetic variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region including human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes and killer immunoglobulin receptor (KIR) region, which have substantial impacts on disease genetics and can act as clinical biomarkers. His interests are now moving towards genetic and bioinformatics analysis using multi-modal huma omics data generated by technologies in the post-GWAS era, and its application to novel drug discovery and drug repositioning, trans-omics analysis, single cell sequencing, human evolution, and personalized medicine.