Prof. Kinya Ishikawa, Ph.D.

Kinya Ishikawa is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Science as well as Director of The Center for Personalized Medicine for Healthy Aging at the National University Corporation at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

He is a worldwide renowned specialist for clinical, neuropathologic and molecular genetic aspects of hereditary ataxias, other neurodegenerative disorders and aging.

In September/October 2009, Kinya Ishikawa undertook a 3-week guest residency in the Neurological Clinic of the LMU. There, he worked with Prof. Dr. Thomas Klopstock from the Friedrich Baur Institute at the Neurological Clinic on a research project on "Single neuron expression analysis in Huntington’s disease and spinocerebellar ataxia". During his visit, Prof. Ishikawa gave a lecture on 6 October 2009 at 5 p.m. as part of the series "CAS Collegium" on the topic of "A new type of mutation, unstable heterochromatin repeat insertion, causes human neurological disease, spinocerebellar ataxia type 31“.

In July and August 2022, he will again be a Fellow upon invitation of Prof. Dr. Thomas Klopstock at CAS. On Monday, 11 July 2022 at 5 p.m. he will give a lecture on "Hereditary Ataxias“ at the hospital.