Noriyuki Nishida

Organization・Title
Professor, Devision of Molecular Virorlogy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Special field
Prion
Research themes
Pathogenesis of prion diseases and other following issues:
1)Analysis strain diversity of prions in cell culture models
2)Drug-discovery for prion diseases
3)Decontamination of prion
4)Diagnosis of prion diseases

Homepage

http://www.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/mmi/cmb/index_e.html

personal history

1997-1999 JSPS Research postdoctoral fellow, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
1998-2000 PD, Institut de Genetique Humaine - CNRS Montpellier, France
2001-2005 Assistant Professor. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
2005-2006 Associate Professor, Center for Emerging Diseases, Gifu University
2003-2006 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Neuropathology, Yale University School of Medicine. USA

works/thesis

1. Atarashi R, Satoh K, Sano K, Fuse T, Yamaguchi N, Ishibashi D, Matsubara T, Nakagaki T, Yamanaka H, Shirabe S, Yamada M, Mizusawa H, Kitamoto T, Klug G, McGlade A, Collins SJ, Nishida N. Ultrasensitive human prion detection in cerebrospinal fluid by real-time quaking-induced conversion. nature medicine. 2011 Feb;17(2):175-8. (IF:27.136)15.         

2. Kuwata K, Nishida N, Matsumoto T, Kamatari YO, Hosokawa-Muto J, Kodama K, Nakamura HK, Kimura K, Kawasaki M, Takakura Y, Shirabe S, Takata J, Kataoka Y, Katamine S. Hot spots in prion protein for pathogenic conversion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 17;104(29):11921-6.

3. Nishida N, Katamine S, Manuelidis L. Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science. 2005 Oct 21;310(5747):493-6.