Daisuke Hayasaka
Dr. Daisuke Hayasaka is a research scientist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (Nekken) at Nagasaki University in Japan. He received his PhD in Veterinary Medicine at the Graduate school of Veterinary Medicine at Hokkaido University. He had a postdoctoral training at the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the USA. His research interest is on the pathogenesis of neurotropic viruses, especially encephalitic viruses that include Japanese encephalitis virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus.