Dr. Shinichi Sato, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Dermatology at Nagasaki University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.

He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1989 and since then, he has been joining scleroderma clinics in both the University of Tokyo and Kanazawa University. He has been investigating clinical aspects and immunologic abnormalities associated with scleroderma. Because he was a Research Associate in the Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center between 1994-1997, and studied molecular and cellular immunology of B lymphocytes, he is now actively investigating B lymphocyte abnormalities in SSc and trying to develop a novel therapeutic strategy for B lymphocytes. In 2003, he received the award of the Japanese Society of Investigative Dermatology, regarding B lymphocyte abnormalities of scleroderma.

He is also an Investigator in Elucidation of Pathogenesis and Development of Disease-Modifying Therapy in Scleroderma held by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan.

Shinichi Sato, MD, PhD
Department of Dermatology
Nagasaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-7-1
Sakamoto Nagasaki 852-8501
Office Phone: 81-95-849-7331
Fax: 81-95-849-7335

Email:shinichi-sato@sclero.org