Speakers
Kenya Honda
Professor
Keio University School of Medicine
Kenya Honda, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor at Keio University School of Medicine and a Team Leader at RIKEN IMS. His research focuses on the interplay between the human host and endogenous microbiota. His group has made key contributions to understanding not only which microorganisms contribute to disease and how, but also which microorganisms are considered beneficial and could be used for treatment of disease. Notable achievements include identifying microbiota members that induce TH17 cells, Treg cells, TH1 cells, and CD8 T cells, as well as bile acid metabolizing microbes unique to centenarians.
He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2014 to 2023 and was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology in 2020. He is a scientific co-founder of Vedanta Bioscience and a scientific advisor of 4Bio Capital. Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards of Gut Microbes, Cell Host & Microbe, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, and Current Opinion in Microbiology, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Science Translational Medicine.
