Hiroyuki Moriuchi

Dr. Moriuchi is presently a Professor of Pediatrics at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and a Vice-Director at the National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Japan. He is a President of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases and serves as a Councilor of several academic societies including the Japanese Society for Virology and the Japanese Society for Clinical Virology. He was the President of the 9th Asian Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 2018. 

He dedicated himself to the basic research and clinical practice of herpesviruses and HIV-1 at NIH, USA between 1990 and 1999. He received Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 1996, and several awards from NIAID in 1999. 

He contributed to the establishment of nationwide measures to prevent mother-to-child infection of human T-cell leukemia virus-I in Japan as a principal investigator. He has been a member of the study groups for congenital toxoplasmosis and cytomegalovirus infection in Japan and has engaged in birth-cohort studies for congenital infections, including rubella and Zika, in Vietnam. 

He has engaged in vaccine awareness activities for years, concerning HPV vaccines in particular. 

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