Rate My Professor Motomu Nakatake

Motomu Nakatake is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine at Tottori University. He completed undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Medicine School of Life Sciences at Tottori University from 2010 to 2014. He pursued further graduate education at Tottori University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction from 2016 to 2019, with additional studies from 2014 to 2016.

His research involves oncolytic vaccinia viruses, including work on cell-cell fusion and immunostimulatory cytokines in cancer therapy applications. He has contributed to publications examining the anticancer potential of oncolytic viruses enhanced by histone deacetylase inhibitors and the impact of cell-cell fusion mechanisms on systemic antitumor immune responses. Nakatake collaborates on projects developing fusogenic oncolytic vaccinia viruses for modulating the tumor microenvironment.