Researchers

KUDO Masatoshi

KUDO Masatoshi
Professor/Senior Staff/Vice President
Faculty Department of Medicine / Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/m-kudo

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 1999 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Medicine Professor and Chairman

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Life sciences, Medical systems
  • Life sciences, Gastroenterology
  • Life sciences, Tumor diagnostics and therapeutics

Research Interests

Hepatocellular carcinoma, 肝腫瘍の画像診断, Conrast-ehnaced ultrasonogaraphy, EOB-MRI, Radiofreuqency ablation (RFA), Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), 肝動注化学療法, Molecular targeted therapy, 血管新生阻害治療, Immunotherapy, Immune checkpoint inhibitor

Published Papers

  1. A novel cancer gene therapy achieving reciprocal regulation of PTEN and PARP1 expression.
    Yasuo Otsuka; Tomohiro Watanabe; Masatoshi Kudo
    Molecular therapy. Oncology  34  (2)  , 201194-201194, 18, Jun. 2026 
  2. Determinants of long-term survival from atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
    Pei-Chang Lee; Alessio Cortellini; Bernardo Stefanini; Changhoon Yoo; Hong Jae Chon; Jaekyung Cheon; Masatoshi Kudo; Naoshi Nishida; Bernhard Scheiner; Matthias Pinter; Pasquale Lombardi; Claudia Angela Maria Fulgenzi; Antonio D'Alessio; Leonardo Brunetti; Aria Torkpour; Elena Valenzi; Fionnuala Crowley; Thomas U Marron; Wei-Fan Hsu; Ciro Celsa; Giuseppe Cabibbo; Calogero Cammà; Peter Robert Galle; Caterina Vivaldi; Gianluca Masi; Rohini Sharma; Ryan Po-Ting Lin; Chun-Yen Lin; Brooke Wietharn; Anwaar Saeed; Francesco Tovoli; Fabio Piscaglia; Andrea Dalbeni; Alessandra Auriemma; David Sacerdoti; Alessandro Parisi; Giulia Francesca Manfredi; Andrea Dondo; Lorenza Rimassa; Mario Pirisi; Martin Schönlein; Johann von Felden; Amit G Singal; Neehar Dilip Parkih; Haripriya Andanamala; Susanna Ulahannan; Natascha Roehlen; Robert Thimme; Yi-Hsiang Huang; David James Pinato
    European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)  240  , 116749-116749, 3, Jun. 2026 
  3. Early and late survival dynamics of immunotherapy combinations in advanced HCC: Anchored indirect comparison of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab versus durvalumab + tremelimumab.
    Andrea Casadei-Gardini; Terry Cheuk-Fung Yip; Alessandro Vitale; Federico Rossari; Toshifumi Tada; Goki Suda; Shigeo Shimose; Masatoshi Kudo; Jaekyung Cheon; Fabian Finkelmeier; Ho Yeong Lim; José Presa; Gianluca Masi; Changhoon Yoo; Sara Lonardi; Fabio Piscaglia; Takashi Kumada; Mario Scartozzi; Emiliano Tamburini; Francesco Giuseppe Foschi; Silvia Camera; Mara Persano; Alessandra Pia D'Agata; Michele Ferrara; Laura Passeri; Lorenza Rimassa; Margherita Rimini
    European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)  240  , 116750-116750, 3, Jun. 2026 

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Books etc

  1. 令和4年度改定薬学教育モデル・コア・カリキュラム準拠 疾患で学ぶ 病態・薬物治療 , 米田頼晃; 工藤正俊 , 炎症性腸疾患・大腸癌 , アークメディア, 東京 , 2025
  2. デュルバルマブ・トレメリムマブ併用療法による肝細胞癌治療 , 工藤正俊 , デュルバルマブ・トレメリムマブ併用療法の登場による肝細胞癌治療の今後の展開 , アークメディア, 東京 , Jan. 2025
  3. デュルバルマブ・トレメリムマブ併用療法による肝細胞癌治療 , 工藤正俊 , STRIDEレジメンによるsuper responderとその予測 , アークメディア, 東京 , Jan. 2025

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Conference Activities & Talks

  1. 司会: 肝細胞癌の集学的治療におけるimAEマネジメントの重要性 , 工藤正俊 , 第34回日本肝がん分子標的治療研究会 , 5, Jun. 2026
  2. Keynote Lecture “Systemic therapy for HCC- Current status and future directions” , Kudo M. , Taiwan Liver Cancer Association (TLCA 2026) , 17, May. 2026
  3. 座長: 特別講演「造影超音波検査の現状と未来」 , 工藤正俊 , 第37回日本腹部造影エコー・ドプラ診断研究会 , 20, Apr. 2026

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MISC

  1. A multicenter, phase 2 study of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab (atezo plus bev) combination therapy in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and Child-Pugh class B cirrhosis: CHALLENGE trial final results. , Masafumi Ikeda; Takeshi Terashima; Tatsuya Yamashita; Takuji Okusaka; Hiroshi Imaoka; Tomokazu Kawaoka; Satoshi Kobayashi; Sadahisa Ogasawara; Atsushi Hiraoka; Masahito Nakano; Fumio Nagashima; Rie Sugimoto; Michihisa Moriguchi; Yoshitaka Inaba; Satoru Shinoda; Makoto Ueno; Naoya Kato; Masatoshi Kudo; Junji Furuse; Hiroaki Nagano , JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY , 43 , 4_SUPPL , Feb. 2025
  2. 口腔ケア介入は治療内視鏡後の感染リスクを軽減できるか? , 杉本都; 辻直子; 吉田早希; 半田康平; 正木翔; 河野匡志; 永井知之; 米田頼晃; 本庶元; 松井繁長; 工藤正俊 , Gastroenterological Endoscopy (Web) , 67 , Supplement2 , 2025
  3. 超音波検査における肝腫瘤診断支援AIの性能評価と社会実装の可能性 , 西田直生志; 西田直生志; 工藤正俊 , 日本消化器病学会雑誌(Web) , 122 , 2025

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Awards & Honors

  1. Apr. 2022, 日本消化器病学会学術賞受賞
  2. Nov. 2021, Highly Cited Researchers 2021 受賞(Clarivate Analytics:臨床医学部門）(日本人2名中1名)
  3. May. 2021, 日本超音波医学会 学会特別賞

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Evaluation of the current status of exposure and reduction measures in fluoroscopic endoscopic procedures (a nationwide multicenter study) , Kindai University
  2. 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 免疫チェックポイント阻害剤投与に伴う急速な腫瘍増大(HPD)の発症機序の解析 , 近畿大学
  3. 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 自己免疫性膵炎・IgG4関連疾患の発症に関わる腸管・膵臓免疫ネットワークの解明 , 近畿大学

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