時間学研究所　客員教授
周防大島町病院事業局　顧問

PROFILE
1952年生まれ。
東京医科歯科大学大学院医学研究科修了、医学博士
東京医科歯科大学助手、九州大学助手、山口大学助教授・教授

RESEARCH
皮膚科学、人類遺伝学。主な研究テーマは稀少難治性皮膚疾患（汎発性膿疱性乾癬、エーラス・ダンロス症候群、神経線維腫症1型など）を対象疾患として、各々の疾患の治療法の開発研究に取り組んでいる。最近は、マダニ媒介感染症（Oz virus等）や溶連菌感染症をモデル疾患として、免疫学的視点から、生体と自然環境との相互作用の解析も進めている。

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Professor Emeritus Muto obtained a PhD degree from Tokyo Medical and Dental University(presently Institute of Science Tokyo) . He worked at Department of Dermatology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University(presently Kyushu University Beppu Hospital), and subsequently Department of Dermatology, Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Medicine. In 2016, he retired early from Yamaguchi University. He was the Director of Yamaguchi Prefectural Grand Medical Center(2018-2026). Major focus areas of dermatologic research are to elucidate host factors(gene variants, immune responses to infection) involved in rare and intractable skin diseases such as pustular psoriasis, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, neurofibromatosis 1, and infectious diseases.