Yasutoshi Koga
Professor
Kurume University School of Medicine
Japan
Biography
Yasutoshi Koga has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Kurume University and postdoctoral studies from College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (Profs. DiMauro S and Schon EA). He is the president of Japanese Society of Mitochondrial Research and Medicine, a Professor of Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kurume University School of Medicine. He discovered a novel therapeutic procedure and has completed the investigator-mediated clinical trial of L-arginine on MELAS in Japan. He received the Kelsey Wright Award from UMDF in 2008. In 2012, he started the new national project to cure the lactic acidosis associated with mitochondrial disorders, supported by Grants-in-Aid of the Research on Intractable Diseases (Mitochondrial Disorders) from AMED of Japan. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of international journals.
Research Interest
DNA Sequencing, Clinical Research, Inherited metabolic disorders, New Drug Discovery, Clinical Genetics, Mitochondrial DNA