Masato Odawara
Visiting Professor, Tokyo Medical University
His specialty is the clinical aspects of atherosclerotic complications (diabetology, endocrinology and metabolism, atherosclerosis, molecular biology). His main research themes include genetic predisposition to diabetes and its complications, risk factors for diabetic macrovascular complications, and the molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance. In 1989, he published a study on insulin receptor gene abnormalities in Science. He continues to work on elucidating genes involved in the etiology of diabetes and the development of diabetic complications, including mitochondrial gene abnormalities. He was formerly the chief professor of the Department of Diabetes, Metabolism, Endocrinology, Rheumatology and Collagen Disease at Tokyo Medical University, and is currently a visiting professor at the same university.