Shigeru Kinoshita

About Shigeru Kinoshita

Shigeru Kinoshita

Shigeru Kinoshita established, along with Richard Thoft, the concept of centripetal movement of corneal epithelium. This shed new light on the importance of the limbal epithelium and contributed to the development of corneal stem cell theory. Kinoshita’s group recently established systems to transplant cultivated mucosal epithelial stem cells and cultivated corneal endothelium.