Present Position: Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Executive director, Japan Society of Repro-Regenerative Medicine
Executive director, Academia for Repro-Regenerative Medicine
Director, Aijyukai-Doujin Hospital, Kyoto
Director, Infertility Center, Daigo-Watanabe Clinic, kyoto
Academic Career
1960 MD at Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
1964 PhD at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
1970 Visiting Scientist, Endocrine Laboratory, University of Miami
1972 Research Fellow at Population Council, Rockefeller University
1981 Professor and Chairman, Dept Obstetrics and Gynecology, Univ of Tokushima
1983 Professor and Chairman, Dept Gynecology and Obstetrics, Kyoto University
1997 Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
1997 Director, Infertility Center, Daigo-Watanabe Clinic
2006 Executive Director, Academia for Repro-Regenerative Medicine
2006 Executive Director, Doujin Hospital
Awards
1980 Young Investigator’s Award, Kinki District Society of Ob/Gy
1981 Research Award, Japan Physician’s Association
1998 IFFS 30th Anniversary Recognition Award
2005 Blackwell/Munksgaard Award from Am Soc of Reproductive Immunology
Contributions to Reproductive Science and Medicine
A total of 471 English and 708 Japanese articles were published covering all the field of obstetrics and gynecology. Principal academic fields are ovarian endocrinology and reproductive immuno-endocrinology of implantation.
Activities in Academic Societies
Honorable Member, Japan Society Obstetrics and Gynecology
Honorable Member, Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine
Auditor, Japan Society of Fertilization and Implantation
Honorable Member, Japan Society for Reproductive Immunology
IFFS Executive Committee Member (1992~2001)
Society President, International Society of In Vitro Fertilization (ISIVF) (May 2005~)
President or Organizer of Major Scientific Meetings
1983 International Workshop on WHO Reference Bank Sera for Reproductive Immunology, Tokushima Japan
1987 Organizer: Kyoto International Symposium on Human IVF, Kyoto, Japan
1988 Co-organizer, International Symposium on Development of Pre-implantation Embryos and Their Environment, Kyoto, Japan
1993 President, Eighth World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization and Alternate Assisted Reproduction, Kyoto, Japan
