PROFILE

MITA Toshihiro, M.D., Ph.D.


Department of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology (Tropical Medicine and Parasitology)

Short Biography

1998
Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Jikei Medical University
2005
Lecturer, Department of International affairs & Tropical medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University
2012
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
 

Keywords

  • Tropical Medicine
  • Malaria
  • Drug Resistance
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Epidemiology

Main Research Topics and Interests

  • Genomic surveillance of malaria parasite to understand antimalarial drug resistance and how they emerge and geographically spread to the population
  • Elucidation of evolution process for drug-resistant malaria
  • Development of new genetic markers that can easily identify drug-resistant parasites
  • Understanding of world-wide population structure of malaria parasites and its relation to global malaria control
  • Development a novel antimalarial drug

Publications (in English)

  • Original Articles: 64
  • Review Articles: 8
  • Books: 2
  • h-Index: 21 (Scopus)
  • Sum of Times Cited: 1,524

Recent Main Publications

  • N Engl J Med. 2021; 385:1163-71.
  • PLOS Pathogens., 2020; 16, e1009133
  • Emerg. Infect. Dis., 2018; 24, 718-726.
  • More

Other Specific Comments

  • I have been addressing the global issue of drug-resistant malaria mainly using novel field-based molecular approaches. My personal motto is “an inventive point of view” that makes our life as a researcher more interesting.

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