Prof. Takahiro Ochiya
"Exosome as a novel platform for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics"

Position

Chief, Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine,
National Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan

Profile

Dr. Takahiro Ochiya is a Chief of Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo and he is also appointed as an invited professor of Waseda University (since 2004) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (since 2008).

After he got Ph.D. in 1988 in Osaka University and then went to do a post-doc at La Jolla Cancer Research (Burnham Institute for Medical Research), CA, USA.

Dr. Ochiya’s lab focuses the development of novel animal models, methods, and strategies to study cancer development and metastasis. Especially, current focuses are siRNA- and microRNA-based therapy against cancer stem cells.