Lecturer / Assistant professor
Kyushu University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Japan
Dr. Makoto Endo is appointed as a Lecturer / Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of Kyushu University, Japan. He obtained his medical degree from Kyushu University in 2000. He subsequently completed his clinical residency of musculoskeletal oncology at National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo. He became a Japanese Orthopedic Association Certified Doctor of Orthopedics in 2009 and a Japanese Board of Cancer Therapy Certified Doctor of Therapy in 2010. He was awarded the degree of PhD in Medical Science by Kyushu University in 2011. In 2013 He completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Pathology at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada with a focus on global protein expression study of sarcomas using tissue microarrays. In 2015 He received an Incitement Award of the Japanese Cancer Association for exploratory research for prognostic factors and novel therapeutic targets in bone and soft tissue tumors. His research interests cover a broad range of musculoskeletal oncology including pathology, molecular biology, global gene and protein expression study, prognostic evaluation, drug therapy, and clinical trial.