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 Case of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Colon Cancer With Invasive Micropapillary Carcinoma Component.
    Masashi Kono; Yoriaki Komeda; Hiroshi Kashida; Satoru Hagiwara; Akihiro Yoshida; Shunsuke Omoto; Mamoru Takenaka; Naoko Tsuji; George Tribonias; Masatoshi Kudo
    DEN open  6  (1)  , e70184-, Apr. 2026 
  2. Reproducible safety and efficacy of durvalumab with or without tremelimumab for hepatocellular carcinoma in clinical practice: Results of the DT-real study.
    Ciro Celsa; Tiziana Pressiani; Naoshi Nishida; Shadi Mohamad Chamseddine; Ashwini Arvind; Michael Li; Marta Fortuny; Najib Ben Khaled; Massimo Iavarone; Hidenori Toyoda; Ilario Giovanni Rapposelli; Andrea Casadei-Gardini; Caterina Vivaldi; Susanna Ulahannan; Haripriya Andanamala; Bernhard Scheiner; Matthias Pinter; Elena Orlandi; Claudia A M Fulgenzi; Giulia F Manfredi; Pasquale Lombardi; Antonio D'Alessio; Bernardo Stefanini; Rosanna Villani; Francesca Romana Ponziani; Leonardo Stella; Ornella Carminati; Angela Dalia Ricci; Melina Gonzalez; Alba Sparacino; Gabriele Di Maria; Marco Vaccaro; Giuseppe Cabibbo; Calogero Cammà; Maria Reig; Robin K Kelley; Amit G Singal; Ahmed O Kaseb; Masatoshi Kudo; Lorenza Rimassa; David James Pinato
    JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology  8  (3)  , 101685-101685, Mar. 2026 
  3. Full aspiration technique using a 7-Fr double-pigtail stent for endoscopic ultrasound-guided pancreatic fluid drainage of a pancreatic pseudocyst
    Shunsuke Omoto; Mamoru Takenaka; Akihiro Yoshida; Kae Fukunishi; Hidekazu Tanaka; Yoriaki Komeda; Masatoshi Kudo
    Endoscopy  58  (S 01)  , E246-E247, 17, Feb. 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 , 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 , 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 , 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. Keynote Lecture “Systemic therapy for HCC- Current status and future directions” , Kudo M. , Taiwan Liver Cancer Association (TLCA 2026) , 17, May. 2026
  2. Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) for molecular residual disease (MRD) detection and recurrence monitoring in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); COSMOS-HCC01 , Kudo M.; Sasaki M.; Itoh S.; Sugiura T.; Kobayashi T.; Sugimachi K.; Nakamura S.; Abe Y.; Kosaka H.; Nakamoto N.; Yamamoto N.; Ueno M.; Okusaka T.; Takebe A.; Esaki M.; Ohkawa K.; Komatsu H.; Takahashi Y.; Tanaka M.; Aramaki T.; Kawaoka T.; Sugimoto R.; Yamashita T.; Yamaguchi T.; Kudo M.; Ozaka M.; Notake C.; Uchigata H.; Ikeda M.; Gotohda N.; Nakamura Y. , American Association for Cancer Research (AACR 2026) , 17, Apr. 2026
  3. Prognostic impact of etiologies on intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: An analysis of a nationwide registry , Okushin K.; Tateishi R.; Uchino K.; Nakagomi R.; Matsushita Y.; Yamada T.; Nakatsuka T.; Minami T.; Sato M.; Kudo Y.; Asaoka Y.; Fujishiro M.; Eguchi Y.; Hasegawa K.; Kurosaki M.; Yoshiji H.; Kanto T.; Kudo M.; Kokudo N.; Koike K. , Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Oncology 2026 , 2, 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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