Assistant Professor
Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Dr. Kazumi Taguchi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Nephro-urology, Nagoya City University (NCU) Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan.
After graduating from medical school, he joined urology at NCU thereafter finished his residency and endourological fellowship. In 2014, he completed his Ph.D. training with renal physiology focused on elucidating the pathogenesis of kidney stones. He also served as a visiting research fellow in Endourology at UCSF from 2016 to 2017. He helped establish the genomic research lab and participate in clinical research, including ureteroscopy and ultrasound-guided PCNL.
Dr. Taguchi's research interest as a Ph.D. scientist is the Omics analysis of patients' samples as well as in vitro and in vivo studies for developing immunotherapy using macrophages toward kidney stones. Working for a global society, he is the first author of the UAA clinical guideline for urinary stone disease and has won over 20 awards in basic and clinical research presentations/papers from JUA, AUA, EAU, SIU, and Endourological Society.
Dr. Taguchi dedicates his time to translational research and minimally invasive surgery for kidney stones, including endoscopic combined intrarenal surgery by ultrasound-guided and robotic-assisted fluoroscopy-guided renal access. He currently serves as a Department Research Chair at NCU and the principal investigator of national and international collaborative studies.
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