Atsushi Kaneda
Chiba University, Japan
Biography
Atsushi Kaneda has obtained his MD degree from University of Tokyo and became Assistant Professor at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Tokyo where he conducted genome-wide DNA methylation analysis in gastric cancer and acquired PhD degree. He has also studied at Johns Hopkins University and showed that accumulated epigenetic alteration could modify intestinal tumor risk using mouse model of IGF2 LOI. As an Associate Professor at University of Tokyo and as Professor at Department of Molecular Oncology, Chiba University since 2013, he has conducted projects to clarify epigenomic mechanisms in gastrointestinal carcinogenesis.