大阪市立大学医学部動物実験施設教授（兼任）
研究課題：
パラミクソウイルス感染症の基礎的研究（特に麻疹ウイルスおよび亜急性硬化性全脳炎ウイルスの病原性発現機構の解析）
研究業績：
・ Efficient isolation of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis virus
from patient brains by reference to
magnetic resonance and computed tomographic images
Journal of Neurovirology 3(4): 304-309, 1997
・ Nucleotide sequences of the matrix protein gene of subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis
viruses compared with local contemporary isolates from patients with
acute measles
Virus Research 54(1): 107-115, 1998
・ The matrix gene expression of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
(SSPE) virus (Osaka-1 strain): a
comparison of two sibling viruses isolated from different lobes of
an SSPE brain
Microbiology and Immunology 42(11): 773-780, 1998
・ Aetiology of delayed facial palsy after vestibular schwannoma surgery:
clinical data and hypothesis
Acta Neurochirurgica 140(9): 913-917, 1998
・ Different transcriptional expression of the matrix gene of the two
sibling viruses of thesubacute
sclerosing panencephalitis virus (Osaka-2 strain) isolated from a biopsy
specimen of patient brain
Journal of Neurovirology 5(2): 151-160, 1999
・ Gametocyte-dominant expression of a novel P-type ATPase in Plasmodium
yoelii
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 104, 331-336, 1999
・ Cell surface expression of immature H glycoprotein in measles virus-infected
cells
Virus Research 66(2), 187-196, 2000
・ Major change in predominant type of Noewalk-like viruses in outbreaks
of acute nonbacterial
gastroenteritis in Osaka City, Japan, between April 1966 and March
1999
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38 (7), 2649-2654, 2000
・ Hemadsorption expressed by cloned H genes from subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis (SSPE) viruses and their
possible progenitor measles viruses isolated in Osaka, Japan
Microbiology and Immunology (in press)
学会活動：
・American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
・Society for General Microbiology (SGM)
・International Society for NeuroVirology (ISNV)
・日本ウイルス学会 評議員
・日本癌学会
・日本免疫学会
・日本細菌学会 関西支部会評議員
・日本臨床ウイルス学会
・日本小児神経学会
・日本神経ウイルス研究会 世話人
・日本感染症学会
その他：
・大阪市立環境科学研究所組換えDNA実験安全委員会委員
・大阪市立環境科学研究所病原体取扱い安全管理委員会委員
・大阪市環境保健局感染症発生動向調査委員会委員