Shigeru Kinoshita

Professor Shigeru Kinoshita, MD, PhD, graduated from Osaka University Medical School in 1974. In 1992, he was appointed professor and chair of the department of ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefecture University of Medicine (KPUM). Since 2015, he has held the title of professor and chair in the department of frontier medical science and technology for ophthalmology at KPUM.

In the early 1980s at Harvard University’s Schepens Eye Research Institute, he (in collaboration with Dr. Richard A. Thoft) established the concept of centripetal movement of the corneal epithelium, and his groundbreaking work has shed new light on the importance of the limbal epithelium. His series of findings has had an enormous impact on this subject, ultimately contributing to the development of the corneal endothelial cell theory.

Dr. Kinoshita is a recipient of the 1999 Alcon Research Institute Award and the 2008 Castroviejo Medal Lecturer of the Cornea Society. He served as an ARVO Program Committee Member in the Cornea Section between 1996 and 1999, and was Vice President of ARVO in 2011. Dr. Kinoshita has also served as Associate Editor of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, and as an Editorial Board Member of Experimental Eye Research and Cornea.