Akihisa Fukuda, MD, PhD
Positions/ Employment and Education
- 2008-present: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of California, SanFrancisco. Dr. Matthias Hebrok, advisor
- 2003-2007: Graduate student, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Kyoto University Graduate
- School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Dr. Tsutomu Chiba and Dr. Yoshiya Kawaguchi, advisors
- 2000-2002: Gastroenterology-Staff, Kansai–Denryoku Hospital, Osaka, Japan
- 1998-2000: Resident (internal medicine), Kansai–Denryoku Hospital, Osaka, Japan
- 1997-1998: Resident (internal medicine), Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
- 1991-1997: Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Publications:
- Fukuda A, Kajiyama T, Arakawa H, Kishimoto H, Someda H, Sakai M, Tsunekawa S, Chiba T.
Retroflexed endoscopic multiple band ligation of symptomatic internal hemorrhoids.
Gastrointest Endosc 59:380-384:2004. - Fukuda A, Kajiyama T, Kishimoto H, Someda H, Sakai M, Seno H, Chiba T. Eosinophilic
Gastroenteritis with Predominant Muscular Layer Disease: Feature of Endoscopic
Ultrasonography. Dig Endosc 16:368-71:2004. - Fukuda A, Nakase H, Seno H, Nabeshima M, Sawada M, Chiba T. Refractory enterovesical
and duodenocolic fistulas in Crohn’s disease successfully managed with tacrolimus. J
Gastroenterol 20:46-56:2005. - Fukuda A, Kajiyama T, Kishimoto H, Arakawa H, Someda H, Sakai M, Seno H, Chiba T.
Colonoscopic classification of internal hemorrhoids: Usefulness in endoscopic band ligation.
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:46-56:2005. - Fukuda A, Yazumi S, Sawada M, Seno H, Nabeshima M, Fujii H, Ikai I, Haga H, Chiba T.
Adenomyoma of the minor duodenal papilla. Gastrointest Endosc 61:475-9:2005. - Hoshino M, Nakamura S, Mori K, Kawauchi T, Terao M, Nishimura Y, Fukuda A, Fuse
T, Matsuo N, Sone M, Watanabe M, Bito H, Terashima T, Wright CVE, Kawaguchi Y, Nakao
K, and Nabeshima Y. Ptf1a, a bHLH transcriptional gene, defines GABAergic neuronal fates in
cerebellum. Neuron 47:201-13:2005. - Uenoyama Y, Seno H, Fukuda A, Sekikawa A, Nanakin A, Sawabu T, Kawada M, Kanda N,
Suzuki K, Yada N, Fukui H, Chiba T. Hypoxia induced by benign intestinal epithelial cells is
associated with cyclooxygenase-2 expression in stromal cells through AP-1-dependent
pathway. Oncogene 25:3277-85:2006. - Fukuda A, Kawaguchi Y, Furuyama K, Kodama S, Kuhara T, Horiguchi M, Koizumi M,
Fujimoto K, Doi R, Wright CVE, Chiba T. Loss of the major duodenal papilla results in brown
pigment biliary stone formation in Pdx1 null mice. Gastroenterology 130:855-867:2006. - Fukuda A, Kawaguchi Y, Furuyama K, Kodama S, Horiguchi M, Kuhara T, Koizumi M, Boyer
DF., Fujimoto K, Doi R, Kageyama R, Wright CVE, Chiba T. Ectopic pancreas formation in
Hes1-knockout mice reveals plasticitiy of endodermal progenitors of the gut, bile duct and
pancreas. J Clin Invest 116:1484-93:2006. - Sawabu T, Seno H, Kawashima T, Fukuda A, Uenoyama Y, Kawada M, Sekikawa A, Fukui H,
Yanagita M, Yoshibayashi H, Satoh S, Sakai Y, Nakano T, Chiba T. Growth arrest-specific
gene 6 Axl signaling enhances gastric cancer cell survival via Akt pathway. Mol Carcinog
46:155-64.2007 - Fukuda A, Kawaguchi Y, Furuyama K, Kodama S, Horiguchi M, Kuhara T, Kawaguchi M,
Terao M, Doi R, Wright CV, Hoshino M, Chiba T, Uemoto S. Reduction of Ptf1a gene dosage
causes pancreatic hypoplasia and diabetes in mice. Diabetes 57:2421-31:2008.
Fellowships:
- 2007-2009 Young Scientist Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(Postdoctoral), Tokyo, Japan.
- 2005-2006 Young Scientist Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(Doctoral), Tokyo, Japan.
- 2006 Kanae Research Foundation Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan
- 2006 Travel Scholarship of the Stem Cells in Gastrointestinal Development, Regeneration and Neoplasia at Washington D.C., USA. September 8 -9 2006.
