# Kayo Inaba

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**Kayo Inaba** is a professor at [Kyoto University](/source/Kyoto_University) where she heads the Graduate School of Biostudies. She is also the Vice-President for Gender Equality and the Director of the Centre for Women Researchers.

Inaho is known for her work on [dendritic cells](/source/Dendritic_cells) and she won the Asia pacific [UNESCO Awards for Women in Science](/source/L'Or%C3%A9al-UNESCO_Awards_for_Women_in_Science) in 2014. She has shown the importance of dendritic cells to the [immune system](/source/Immune_system) and how they can live outside of the body.[1]

## Life

Inaba graduated from the [Kyoto University](/source/Kyoto_University) with a Ph.D. in 1978. From 1982 until 2011, She was visiting faculty member in [Ralph Steinman](/source/Ralph_Steinman)’s lab.[2] She is executive vice-president for gender equality, international affairs, public relations, and director of the International Strategy Office at Kyoto University.[3] Inaba was the first female associate professor in the science department at Kyoto University.[1] Inaba is on the board of the Japanese Society for Immunology.[4]

In 2024, she was designated a [Person of Cultural Merit](/source/Person_of_Cultural_Merit).[5]

## Works

- Ralph Steinman; Maggie Pack; Kayo Inaba (11 November 2013). ["Dendritic Cell Development and Maturation"](https://books.google.com/books?id=t_QHCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1). *Dendritic Cells in Fundamental and Clinical Immunology*. Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli (ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-4757-9966-8.
- Kayo Inaba; Muneo Inaba; Margit Witmer-Pack; Karen Hathcock; Richard Hodes; Ralph Steinman (6 December 2012). ["Expression of B7 Costimulator Molecules on Mouse Dendritic Cells"](https://books.google.com/books?id=flHTBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65). *Dendritic Cells in Fundamental and Clinical Immunology*. Jacques Banchereau & Daniel Schmitt (eds.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-4615-1971-3.
- Ralph M. Steinman; Kayo Inaba; Gerold Schuler; MArgit Witmer (1 January 1986). ["Stimulation of the Immune Response: Contributions of Dendritic Cells"](https://books.google.com/books?id=ffeEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA71). *Mechanisms of Host Resistance to Infectious Agents, Tumors, and Allografts: A Conference in Recognition of the Trudeau Institute Centennial*. Ralph M. Steinman & Robert John North (eds.). Rockefeller Univ. Press. pp. 71–. ISBN 9780874700428. UCAL:B4499585.

## References

1. [Treating cells outside the human body](http://discov-her.com/en/article/treating-cells-outside-the-human-body) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160625130011/http://discov-her.com/en/article/treating-cells-outside-the-human-body) 2016-06-25 at the Wayback Machine, Discov-ger.com, Retrieved 30 July 2015

1. ["Adjunct faculty member Kayo Inaba receives L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150907025432/http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2014/03/03/adjunct-faculty-member-kayo-inaba-receives-loreal-unesco-women-in-science-award/). Rockefeller University. Archived from [the original](http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2014/03/03/adjunct-faculty-member-kayo-inaba-receives-loreal-unesco-women-in-science-award/) on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.

1. [President, Executive Vice-Presidents, and Vice-Presidents on Kyoto university website](http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/profile/executive)

1. [Dr Inaba](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064815/http://www.hasumi-foundation.org/bio021.html), Hasumi Foundation, Retrieved 30 July 2015

1. ["ちばてつや氏ら7人に文化勲章 功労者に青木功氏ら"](https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUE216G80R21C24A0000000/). *The Nikkei*. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.

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