Kiyomi Taniyama
National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer CenterJapan
Biography
Upon completion of his doctorate in Pathology at the Hiroshima University School of Medicine in Japan in 1985, who commenced work in the field of clinical pathology at Shizuoka Prefectural General Hospital, Japan, in 1987. He joined the National Hospital Organization (NHO), Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center in 2002. His major research field was originally gastrointestinal cancer, with a special interest in cancer metastasis. In the ever-changing world of cancer research, he expanded his horizons by learning molecular techniques and laser capture microdissection at the University of California, San Diego Cancer Center in 1998-99. Since then, his research interests have extended to breast and uterine cervical cancers due to the rapid increase of female patients affected with these cancers in Japan. He became president of the Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center in July 2014.