Shiraishi, Ken, Dr.

Research interests

• cancer stem cells
• cancer metastasis

Education & Positions held

06/2011 - Present
Guest researcher in the group of Prof. Michael Detmar, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacogenomics, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

2010 - 2011
Dermatologist, Department of Dermatology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan

2007 - 2010
Dermatologist, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, Ehime, Japan

2006 - 2007
Dermatologist, Department of Dermatology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan

2002 - 2006
Graduate studies at Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan

2000 - 2002
Resident in Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan

1994 - 2000
Medical studies at Wakayama Medical College, Wakayama, Japan

Publications

Shiraishi K , Yamasaki K, Nanba D, Inoue H, Hanakawa Y, Shirakata Y, Hashimoto K, Higashiyama S. (2007) Pre-B-cell leukemia transcription factor 1 is a major target of promelocytic leukemia zinc-finger-mediated melanoma cell growth suppression.
Oncogene 26(3), 339-348

Kikugawa T, Kinugasa Y, Shiraishi K, Nanba D, Nakashiro K, Tanji N, Yokoyama M (2006) PLZF regulales Pbxl transcription and Pbxl-Hoxc8 complex leads to androgen-independent prostate cancer proliferation. Prostate 66(10), 1092-1099