Hiroyuki Takaoka
Hiroyuki Takaoka has been a professor emeritus, Oita University, Japan, since 2010, and a visiting professor, Tropical Infectious Disease Research and Education Centre, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, since 2020. He was a professor, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universiti Malaya, from 2010 to 2017. His research interest is the taxonomy and parasite transmission of black flies. His contributions include the determination of the vector of human onchocerciasis in an Amazonas endemic area of...See more
Hiroyuki Takaoka has been a professor emeritus, Oita University, Japan, since 2010, and a visiting professor, Tropical Infectious Disease Research and Education Centre, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, since 2020. He was a professor, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universiti Malaya, from 2010 to 2017. His research interest is the taxonomy and parasite transmission of black flies. His contributions include the determination of the vector of human onchocerciasis in an Amazonas endemic area of Venezuela, the discoveries of a new zoonotic onchocerciasis and its vector in Japan, and the descriptions of three new subgenera and 524 new species of black flies. He received the academic award of Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology in 1995 for his extensive taxonomic and parasite transmission studies of black flies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America, and the academic award of "Prof. Ichiro Miyazaki" in 1996 for his creative works on zoonotic onchocerciasis. See less
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