Douglas Kazutoshi Sato

Schools: School of Medicine
Graduate Programs: Biomedical Gerontology Graduate Program Medicine and Health Sciences Graduate Program Pediatrics and Child Health Graduate Program
Publications: Orcid ResearcherID

Introduction

Dr. Douglas Kazutoshi Sato is the Superintendent for Teaching, Research and Development at Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (BraIns) and Professor of Medicine at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He holds a collaborating professorship at Tohoku University School of Medicine (Sendai, Japan), where he obtained his PhD. He completed his medical training in internal medicine and clinical neurology at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Dr. Sato is board certified in Neurology since 2002 by the Brazilian Academy of Neurology. Dr Sato has received the ACTRIMS/ECTRIMS/MSJ Award, PACTRIMS Investigator Award, BCTRIMS Gilberto Belisario Award, among others. He was a recipient of the Japanese government (Mombukagakusho) scholarship, and has received research grants from JSPS/MEXT (KAKENHI), CNPq/Brazil, FAPERGS/PPSUS/Ministry of Heath Brazil, Ichiro Kanehara foundation, TEVA pharmaceuticals and Euroimmun AG. The research interests are: 1) Clinical, imaging and immunological features of inflammatory central nervous system disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), autoimmune encephalitis; 2) Development of animal models for inflammatory CNS diseases; 3) Development of assays to detect autoantibodies in neuroimmunological disorders; 4) Research on neuroinflammation in neurological disorders

Areas of interest

No area of ​​interest registered at the time.

Themes

Concentration Areas and Lines Research

Biomedical Gerontology

- Biological Aspects of Aging

Biomedical Gerontology

- Clinical and Emotional Aspects of Aging

Neurosciences

- Behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry

Neurosciences

- Neuroinflammation/Multiple Sclerosis/ neuromyelitis optica

Neurosciences

- Neurology/ stem cells

Pediatrics

- Neurociências

Research Structures

Research Group

- Research Group on Epidemiology, Neurology and Immunology (GENIM)

Research Laboratories

- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (LABGEM)

Research Laboratories

- Neuroinflammation and Neuroimmunology

Research Core

- Interdisciplinary Study Nucleus on Geriatric Neuropsychiatry (NIENPE)