Hitoshi Suzuki received his PhD in the  Department of Nephrology from Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine. After the postgraduate course, he studied abroad at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the USA (Prof. Jan Novak's Lab) to study molecular mechanisms of IgA nephropathy from 2005 to 2009. Prof. Dr. Suzuki earned his Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2009. Then he worked as an Assistant professor in the Department of Nephrology at Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Dr. Suzuki is now the Professor of the Department of Nephrology at the Graduate School of Juntendo University and Chief of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital. He was awarded the first Clinical Scientist Award at the 60th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Nephrology in Japan in 2017, and the First Prize Award at the 41st Annual Meeting on IgA nephropathy in 2018. His research interests include IgA nephropathy, IgA vasculitis, and mucosal immunity.