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Motokuni
Aoki

Tomohiro
Katsuya

Naotaka
Hashiya

Tomohiro Katsuya, M.D., Ph.D.

[Guest Professor of Medicine]

Present Position

Director, KATSUYA Iin (Clinic)
Guest Professor of Medicine
Department of Clinical Gene Therapy
The University of Osaka Graduate School of Medicine
Visiting Professor, Senri Kinran University
Educational Professor, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Visiting Professor, Morinomiya University of Medical Sciences
Vice-president, Amagasaki Physicians Association
Vice-president, Hyogo Physicians Association

Education

1989: M.D.
Wakayama Medical College
1993: Ph.D.
Osaka University Medical School

Postgraduate Training and Employment

1993: Research fellow, Dept. Geriat. Med., Osaka Univ. Med. Sch.
1993: Postdoctoral fellow, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford Univ
(PI: Prof. Victor J. Dzau)
1995: Research fellow, Dept. Geriat. Med., Osaka Univ. Med. Sch.
1996: Research fellow of Japan Foundation for Aging and Health
1997: Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1998: Assistant Professor, Dept. Geriat. Med., Osaka Univ. Med. Sch.
2002: Fellow, High Blood Pressure Council, AHA
2003: Associate Professor, Dept. Geriat. Med., Osaka Univ. Grad. Sch. Med.
2008: Visiting Professor, Senri Kinran University
2009: Specially Appointed Associate Professor,
Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka Univ. Grad. Sch. Med.
Director, KATSUYA Iin (Clinic)
2010: Educational Professor, Osaka Medical College
President, Amagasaki Physicians Association
2013: Visiting Professor, Morinomiya University of Medical Sciences
Vice-president, Hyogo Physicians Association
2019: Guest Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka Univ. Grad. Sch. Med.

Society Board Member

Japanese Society of Hypertension, Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine
Japanese Society of Vascular Failure, Japan Mibyo Association, Japan Physicians Association

Fellow of Society

International Society of Hypertension
American Heart Association, the Council for High Blood Pressure Research
Japan Geriatric Society, Japan Society of Gene and Cell Therapy
Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism

Member of Society

Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Japanese Circulation Society
Japanese Society for Gene Diagnosis and Therapy
Japanese Society of Human Genetics

Awards

1995	Young Investigator Award, Clinical Research Meeting
1997	Young Investigator Award, Japan Heart Foundation
1999	Young Investigator Award, Cardiovascular Science Meeting
1999	Okamoto Investigator Award
2002	Young Investigator Award, Japanese Circulation Society
2004	Investigator Award, Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
2004	Investigator Award, Longevity Science Foundation
2004	New Investigator Award, AHA Council for High Blood Pressure Research
2011	Outstanding Internal Medicine Reviewer of 2011
2022	Hyogo Public Health Association Meritorious Service Award

Specialty

Genetics, Hypertension, Geriatric Medicine

Publications (Original Articles: 231 papers including the following ones)

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids. Nature. 2021;600:675-79.
Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals. Nature. 2020;582:240-245.
Association of angiotensinogen gene T235 variant with increased risk of coronary heart disease. Lancet. 1995;345:1600-3.