Assistant Professor
Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Kazumi Taguchi, MD, PhD, is an Assitant Professor at the department of Nephro-urology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
As a lead investigator in our department at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, I have been dedicating my time to kidney stone research both for clinical and basic points of view. My research goal is not only to find reliable, better treatment of the disease, but also elucidating its pathogenesis for a better understand of the ultimate cure of the disease. In order to achieve this goal, our lab established a kidney stone mouse model so that we have been able to conduct pathophysiological investigations using transgenic mice for unveiling the mechanism of kidney stone formation. While establishing pathophysiological analyses using this mouse model, I investigated that the influence of obese via inflammation and oxidative stress on stone disease using both in vitro and in vivo studies, which resulted in finding collaboration of both macrophages and adipocytes for facilitating kidney stone development. Beyond basic over translational researches, I have also conducted and summarized genome-wide analyses of human renal tissue and in vitro/vivo studies of renal macrophage to develop molecular target/crystal dissolution therapy for kidney stone disease. I have won national and international awards for my research and also was awarded several government grants.
Now, I work as an endourological faculty performing 50-100 ECIRS (endoscopic combined intrarenal surgery) and see 50 patients a week. I also dedicate my time to translational research for better understanding and finding a novel treatment of urinary stone disease.
Friday, May 15, 2020
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Friday, May 15, 2020
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM