[EANF-02] Current Findings on Acute Encephalitis via Flavivirus Infection: A form of Zoonosis

[EANF-02-2] Examination of neuronal injury by West Nile virus infection

^○Hirofumi Sawa^1,2, Shintaro Kobayashi^1,3, Hiroki Yamaguchi^1,4, Wallaya Phongphaew¹, Michihito Sasaki¹, Yasuko Orba¹ (1.Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2.Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Japan, 3.Laboratory of Public Health, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan, 4.Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Japan)

1980-86: Medical doctor course student, Hokkaido University (HU) School of Medicine
1986-90: Ph.D. course student, Graduate School of Medicine, HU
1991-94: Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
1997-99: Lecturer, Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, HU
1999-2005: Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, HU
2005-present: Professor, Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, HU (2010-present: Deputy Director)
2014-present: Professor, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, HU

Selected achievement of past research activities (228 research articles were published.)
1) Discovery of a novel antiviral agent targeting the nonstructural protein 4 (nsP4) of chikungunya virus. Virology 505:102-12, 2017
2) Rab8b regulates transport of West Nile virus particles from recycling endosomes. J Biol Chem, 291(12):6559-6568, 2016