Takehiko Okamura
Vice Director
Anjo Kosei Hospital
Japan
Biography
Okamura completed his doctorate in medical genetics in 1988. From 1989 to 1991, he was a research fellow at the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, under a famous researcher of bladder carcinogenesis, Dr. Samuel M. Cohen. Dr. Okamura studied bladder carcinogenesis and molecular biology. Over the past 30 years, he has continued to conduct clinical and translational research, mainly on BCG immunotherapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. He has published more than 25 papers as a first author.
Research Interest