Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Prof. Satoshi OKADA, MD. PhD. sokada@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Takaki ASANO, MD. PhD. tasano02@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Strong point: Genetics based diagnosis and characterization of PID. You can learn following points,

• Steps to elucidate the genetic causality for PID patients.
• How to identify the candidate variants in PID patients (WES, WGS, RNA-seq, Proteome analysis).
• How to do the functional analysis for the variants found in PID patients.
• Also can learn basic experimental technics, molecular biology, or genetics.

Patient’s care:

• Stem cell transplantation
  PID: 2-3 cases/year (CGD, SCN, the other PIDs)
  Malignant diseases: 15-20/year
• Outpatient
  Approximately 50 cases with PIDs

Limitations:

• Fellows can’t participate in the actual medical care for the patients without Japanese medical license, but can go around the in-patient work with the Japanese doctors every day.

We can arrange and discuss your schedule depending on your curiosity (For examples: Half for clinical and half for research, or all for research etc.).