Shinya Toyokuni

Shinya Toyokuni graduated from Kyoto University, Japan in 1985 (M.D.), and obtained his Ph.D. (Pathology) in 1991 from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. After a postdoctoral fellowship in CDRH, FDA in Rockville, MD, USA, he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pathology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. In 1998, he became an Associate Professor. In 2008, he was promoted as a Full Professor at the Department of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. He is teaching pathology to medical students, diagnosing human specimens as a registered pathologist and performing research on the association of oxidative stress/ferroptosis and carcinogenesis. He has published more than 425 original and review articles (h-index 84) in the areas of cancer, oxidative stress, redox biology and pathology, and is an associate editor for Cancer Sci, Free Radic Biol Med, Free Radic Res, Int J Biol Macromol, J Clin Biochem Nutr, Nagoya J Med Sci and Pathol Int. He has obtained Japan Pathology Award in 2015, SFRR India Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and SFRR Japan Prize in 2021. He worked as the President of SFRR Japan (2015-20), SFRR Asia (2016-17) and SFRR International (2017-18).