Prof. Dr. Satoru Konnai is the dean of the School of Infectious Diseases and a professor of the Department of Pathogen Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine at Hokkaido University. He graduated from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine with a doctoral degree in 2003. Previously, he was the head of the Department of Advanced Drug Discovery of the Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University (2022–2025). He received the Agricultural Technology Top 10 News of 2019 from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2019), the 4th Ito Memorial Foundation Award (2019), 2016 Hokkaido University President's Research Award (2017) and the Japanese Society of Veterinary Medicine Award from the Japanese Society of Veterinary Medicine (2015). Dr. Konnai is also a member of several committees, including the Emergency Livestock Disease Prevention Project, Agricultural Policy Promotion Council, the Japan Veterinary Society and the Production Medicine Research Society. His interests include infection immunity, clinical immunology, tumor immunology, virology and infectious diseases.