Yasuhiro Yoshida, male, molecular immuno-biologist, graduated from the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Hiroshima University in 1998. He worked for the University of Occupational and Environmental Health from 1998-now. In 2008, he became an associate professor at the Department of Immunology and Parasitology, School of Medicine. From 1999 to 2002, he worked at Harvard University in the USA as a research investigator with Prof. Philip Auron, who cloned IL-1B.