Haruhiko Sugimura

Dr. Haruhiko Sugimura MD, PhD obtained his PhD in pathology by the pathological study of acute on chronic liver disease and joined the Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo as a Research Resident, and began a case-control study of multiple primary lung cancer. He moved to the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA as a postdoctoral fellow in Molecular Epidemiology, Division of Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, led by Dr Curtis Harris. After...See more

Dr. Haruhiko Sugimura MD, PhD obtained his PhD in pathology by the pathological study of acute on chronic liver disease and joined the Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo as a Research Resident, and began a case-control study of multiple primary lung cancer. He moved to the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA as a postdoctoral fellow in Molecular Epidemiology, Division of Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, led by Dr Curtis Harris. After finishing his postdoctoral fellowship in NIH, he came back as an assistant professor of the Department of Pathology, the University of Tokyo, and was invited as an Associate Professor of the 1st Department of Pathology (Professor Kino) at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine. Dr. Sugimura introduced the modern platform of molecular pathology and established a very active team having several young graduate students and postdocs. His expertise covers the molecular pathology and molecular epidemiology of human cancers, focusing on individual cancer susceptibility. See less