Professor Kohei Kaku is professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at Kawasaki Medical School, and professor of the General Education Centre at the Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare.
He is a member of the Japan Diabetes Society (JDS), the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, the Japan Endocrine Society, the Japan Society of Diabetic Complications, the Japan Society of Metabolism and Nutrition, the Japan Atherosclerosis Society, the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD).
Professor Kaku has received the Hagedon Award from the Japan Diabetes Society (JDS) (2011), the IFLC International Research Award from the Lions Clubs International Foundation (1993), the Michael Rehman Memorial Research Award from the US Childhood Diabetes Foundation (1987), and the Research Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) (1986).
Professor Kaku’s research interests focus on: basic and clinical research of diabetes drugs, and the molecular mechanism of diabetes (particularly pancreatic islet dysfunction).