Kenya Honda

Kenya Honda is a Professor of Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan and the Team leader of Laboratory for Gut Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan. He received his M.D. from Kobe University School of Medicine and his Ph.D. from Kyoto University School of Medicine in Japan. His lab has been aiming to elucidate the relationship between specific members of the microbiota and immune cell subset using gnotobiotic animal models with the emphasis of human diseases. He received the NISTEP Award in 2013, the Gottfried Wagener Prize in 2014, Bäelz award in 2016, Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology in 2020. He is a Scientific Co-founder of Vedanta Biosciences, a scientific advisor for 4Bio Capital, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Cell Host&Microbe, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology&Hepatology, Current Opinion in Microbiology, Gut Microbes, and Science Translational Medicine.