Prof.YutakaTakahashi Japan

He is a professor at the Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Nara Medical University since 2020. He received PhD in 1996 at Kobe University. His research interests include case-oriented or disease-oriented research, especially in the field of pituitary and adrenal diseases. Within his work, his group has established the novel clinical entity, “paraneoplastic autoimmune hypophysitis”, which includes anti-PIT-1 hypophysitis, a component of isolated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) deficiency and immune checkpoint inhibitor-related hypophysitis. Also, his group reported the association of adult growth hormone deficiency and MASLD/MASH and the first application of iPS cells for pituitary disease modeling. He has contributed for international guidelines of the pituitary and adrenal diseases (Cushing disease; Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinol 2021, Cushing syndrome; Nature Disease Primers 2025, and Pituitary incidentaloma; Nature Rev Endocirinol 2025) as well as Japanese Clinical Practice Guideline for Hypothalamic-Pituitary Dysfunction and Congenital Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus and Related Disorders, 2023. He serves the President of the Pituitary Society (2025-2026), the managing director of the Japan Endocrine Society, and the Japan Neuroendocrine Society, and is also board member of the Japanese Society for Hypothalamic and Pituitary Disease.