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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Chikako Nishigori is a
Director of Japanese Red
Cross Hyogo Blood Center/Visiting Professor of
Dermatology at Kobe
University.
She
was
trained as a dermatologist
at Kyoto University and
received her Ph.D. there.
She joined Prof. Kripke’s
laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her
major topics of interest are
photodermatosis, photobiology, skin cancers and
pigmentary disorders. She
served as president of
Japanese Society for Photomedicine and Photobiology (2013–2018) and
President of Japanese Pigment Cell Research (2014–
2016) and board of Japanese Dermatological Association (2016–2022).
She has received “Edna Roe Lectureship 2014” from the International
Union of Photobiology for her achievements on photobiology.
Laboratory, Laboratory of Genetics, Human Genetics Section, NIA/NIHIRP, Baltimore MD, USA as a Visiting Fellow, and studied the development gene of mice sweat glands.
Aiko
Nishiaki-Sawada
reserved the associate
degree of electric engineering from National
Institute of Technology,
Akashi College in 1999,
and the B.S. from Kobe
University of Mercantile
Marine in 2001. After
graduating, she joined
Ushio Inc. She engaged
research and development
of xenon lamp for endoscopes and fiber laser
until 2016. Since 2017,
she has been investigating
the Safety and efficacy of
222 nm UVC.
Hiroyuki Ohashi got his
Ph.D. in protein evolutionary
engineering
research from the University of Tokyo in 2007. He
worked for the Department of Biochemistry at
the University of Cambridge as an assistant professor in the UK. In
recent years, he has been
conducting research on
the safety of Far UV-C
and infection control with
222 nm in Ushio Inc. He
is a Deputy General Manager and a Leader of
CARE222 Project.
Nozomi
Yamano,
received her M.D. at
Yamaguchi
University
Faculty of Medicine and
Health Sciences in 2014,
and her Ph.D. at Kobe
University
Graduate
School of Medicine in
2022.
She
started
research on the reaction
after 222 nm UVC irradiation using an animal
model of xeroderma pigmentosum group A, Xpaknockout mice and hairless mice in the graduate
school. She is currently
an assistant professor at a
division of dermatology,
at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
and evaluate the methods
of shading from UVA and UVB.
Makoto Kunisada, M.D.
and Ph.D. was graduated
from Kobe University,
Faculty of Medicine, in
1998 and has been a dermatologist. Currently he
is an Associate Professor
of Division of Dermatology, Kobe University
Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. His specialty
is Skin photocarcinogenesis,
Genodermatosis,
Molecular biology. He
studied
at
Graduate
School of Kobe University (2003–2006). His
thesis project was ultraviolet
radiation-induced
skin carcinogenesis. During 2006–2009, he joined Dr. Shcresinger’s
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Tatsushi Igarashi was
born in Hokkaido in 1954.
In 1979, he received a MS
degree in analytical chemistry from Muroran Institute of Technology. In
1979 he engaged in
research on heavy metal
pollution in the ocean at
California Institute of
Technology. Joined Ushio
Inc. in 1980, developed an
excimer lamp in 1993, an
ArF excimer laser in
2000, and an EUV light
source as an executive
officer and CTO in 2013.
2015–2022. His research
interests include the safety
of 222 nm bactericidal
effect and reliable 222 nm
lamps. He is Senior Technical Advisor of Ushio Inc.
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