Shigeru Kinoshita

About Shigeru Kinoshita

Shigeru Kinoshita

Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto

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. Over the last 30 years, his primary interests have been focused on the research and development of new therapeutic modalities for the cornea. To this end, Kinoshita’s group has established systems to transplant cultivated mucosal epithelial stem cells and cultivated corneal endothelium.