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Masaki Yasukawa

Masaki Yasukawa

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Immunology

D-Index
68
Citations
15160
World Ranking
2609
National Ranking
102

Overview

Masaki Yasukawa is a researcher affiliated with Ehime University in Japan, focusing primarily on medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, including immunology, infectious diseases, oncology, molecular biology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research concentrates on areas like CAR-T cell therapy, viral infections and vectors, immunotherapy and immune responses, viral infections and outbreaks, immune cell function and interaction, renal and related cancers, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Yasukawa's recent publications include:

  • "A clinically applicable and scalable method to regenerate T-cells from iPSCs for off-the-shelf T-cell immunotherapy" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "A multicenter non-randomized, uncontrolled single arm trial for evaluation of the efficacy and the safety of the treatment with favipiravir for patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome" (2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases)
  • "A single-chain antibody generation system yielding CAR-T cells with superior antitumor function" (2021, Communications Biology)
  • "Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Regenerated from iPS Cells Have Therapeutic Efficacy in a Patient-Derived Xenograft Solid Tumor Model" (2020, iScience)
  • "Reinforced antimyeloma therapy via dual-lymphoid activation mediated by a panel of antibodies armed with bridging-BiTE" (2023, Blood)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yasukawa include Katsuto Takenaka, Toshiki Ochi, Masaki Maruta, Kazushi Tanimoto, and Masayuki Saijo.

Yasukawa has published multiple papers in leading venues, with recent frequent publications in Blood, Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi, Nature Communications, PLoS neglected tropical diseases, and Communications Biology.

Best Publications

  • Development of functional human blood and immune systems in NOD/SCID/IL2 receptor γ chainnull mice

    Fumihiko Ishikawa;Masaki Yasukawa;Bonnie Lyons;Shuro Yoshida

  • The first identification and retrospective study of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in Japan

    Toru Takahashi;Ken Maeda;Tadaki Suzuki;Aki Ishido

  • Nationwide survey of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in Japan.

    Eiichi Ishii;Shouichi Ohga;Shinsaku Imashuku;Masaki Yasukawa

  • HLA class I-restricted lysis of leukemia cells by a CD8(+) cytotoxic T-lymphocyte clone specific for WT1 peptide.

    Hideki Ohminami;Masaki Yasukawa;Shigeru Fujita

  • Generation of functional human T-cell subsets with HLA-restricted immune responses in HLA class I expressing NOD/SCID/IL2r gamma(null) humanized mice.

    Leonard D. Shultz;Yoriko Saito;Yuho Najima;Satoshi Tanaka

  • Association of human herpesvirus 6 reactivation with the flaring and severity of drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome

    M. Tohyama;K. Hashimoto;M. Yasukawa;H. Kimura

  • Severe Hypersensitivity Syndrome Due to Sulfasalazine Associated With Reactivation of Human Herpesvirus 6

    Mikiko Tohyama;Yoko Yahata;Masaki Yasukawa;Reiko Inagi

  • Identification of N-arachidonylglycine as the endogenous ligand for orphan G-protein-coupled receptor GPR18.

    Masashi Kohno;Hitoshi Hasegawa;Atsushi Inoue;Masatake Muraoka

  • Epstein–Barr virus-encoded poly(A)– RNA supports Burkitt’s lymphoma growth through interleukin-10 induction

    Norihiko Kitagawa;Miyuki Goto;Kimikazu Kurozumi;Seiji Maruo

  • Improved expression and reactivity of transduced tumor-specific TCRs in human lymphocytes by specific silencing of endogenous TCR.

    Sachiko Okamoto;Junichi Mineno;Hiroaki Ikeda;Hiroshi Fujiwara

  • Human cytotoxic T cell clones directed against herpes simplex virus-infected cells. I. Lysis restricted by HLA class II MB and DR antigens.

    M Yasukawa;J M Zarling

  • A clinically applicable and scalable method to regenerate T-cells from iPSCs for off-the-shelf T-cell immunotherapy.

    Shoichi Iriguchi;Shoichi Iriguchi;Yutaka Yasui;Yohei Kawai;Yohei Kawai;Suguru Arima

  • Granule exocytosis, and not the fas/fas ligand system, is the main pathway of cytotoxicity mediated by alloantigen-specific CD4(+) as well as CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes in humans.

    Masaki Yasukawa;Masaki Yasukawa;Hideki Ohminami;Hideki Ohminami;Junko Arai;Junko Arai;Yoshihito Kasahara;Yoshihito Kasahara

  • Reinforce the antitumor activity of CD8+ T cells via glutamine restriction

    Shogo Nabe;Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Junpei Suzuki;Koji Toriyama

  • HLA Class I Binding of HBZ Determines Outcome in HTLV-1 Infection

    Aidan MacNamara;Aileen Rowan;Silva Hilburn;Ulrich Kadolsky

  • Safety and persistence of WT1-specific T-cell receptor gene−transduced lymphocytes in patients with AML and MDS

    Isao Tawara;Shinichi Kageyama;Yoshihiro Miyahara;Hiroshi Fujiwara

  • Identification of human telomerase reverse transcriptase-derived peptides that induce HLA-A24-restricted antileukemia cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

    Junko Arai;Masaki Yasukawa;Hideki Ohminami;Miki Kakimoto

  • Genetic subtypes of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: correlations with clinical features and cytotoxic T lymphocyte/natural killer cell functions

    Eiichi Ishii;Ikuyo Ueda;Ryutaro Shirakawa;Ken Yamamoto

  • Enhanced induction of human WT1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes with a 9-mer WT1 peptide modified at HLA-A*2402-binding residues.

    Akihiro Tsuboi;Yoshihiro Oka;Keiko Udaka;Masaki Murakami

  • Enhancing T Cell Receptor Stability in Rejuvenated iPSC-Derived T Cells Improves Their Use in Cancer Immunotherapy.

    Atsutaka Minagawa;Atsutaka Minagawa;Atsutaka Minagawa;Toshiaki Yoshikawa;Masaki Yasukawa;Akitsu Hotta

  • Wilms tumor gene peptide-based immunotherapy for patients with overt leukemia from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or MDS with myelofibrosis.

    Yoshihiro Oka;Akihiro Tsuboi;Masaki Murakami;Manabu Hirai

  • Perforin gene mutations in adult-onset hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

    Koji Nagafuji;Atsushi Nonami;Takashi Kumano;Yoshikane Kikushige

  • Novel adoptive T-cell immunotherapy using a WT1-specific TCR vector encoding silencers for endogenous TCRs shows marked antileukemia reactivity and safety

    Toshiki Ochi;Hiroshi Fujiwara;Sachiko Okamoto;Jun An

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeru Fujita
Shigeru Fujita Ehime University
Hiroshi Shiku
Hiroshi Shiku Mie University
Mine Harada
Mine Harada Kyushu University
Masakatsu Yamashita
Masakatsu Yamashita Ehime University
Leonard D. Shultz
Leonard D. Shultz Jackson Laboratory
Koji Hashimoto
Koji Hashimoto Ehime University
Ken Yamamoto
Ken Yamamoto Kurume University
Yoshihiro Oka
Yoshihiro Oka Osaka University
Haruo Sugiyama
Haruo Sugiyama Osaka University
Shouichi Ohga
Shouichi Ohga Kyushu University

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