Tetsuro Suzuki Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor Academic Degree: 1994 (year of acquisition): Ph.D at Kyoto University Professional Appointments : From 1983 to 1992: Researcher, BANYU Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. From 1992 to 1996: Researcher, Lab. of Hepatitis viruses, Dept. of Virology II, National Institute of Health, Japan. From 1994 to 1997: Research fellow, Div. of Biology, California Institute of Technology From 1996 to 2001: Senior researcher, National Institute of Infectious Diseases (former National Institute of Health. From 2001 to 2010: Chief, Dept. of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases. From 2010 to present: Professor, Department of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University From 2018 to present: Visiting professor, Shizuoka University, Research Institute of Green Science and Technology