Kanaya Nobuhiko

I am a senior research fellow at Center for Stem Cell and Translational Immunotherapy (CSTI) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. I joined CSTI in 2019 after finishing my M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. I have been engaged in a translational research on oncolytic virus (OV) against solid tumors since I was a Ph.D. student in Okayama university. At CSTI, my projects are to focus on the development of novel combination therapy with OV-armed stem cell (SC) and SC secreting immunomodulators for advanced melanoma. Prior to joining CSTI, I also worked on clinical trials with oncolytic adenovirus (UMIN000010158, NCT03172819) as well as performed research on combination therapy with oncolytic virus and immune checkpoint inhibitors. My goal is to become an excellent academic surgeon in the future.