Speaker

Kazuhiro Matsuo

Biography :

I started mycobacterial research in 1986 and first I cloned alpha antigen (antigen 85B) gene from BCG (J. Bacteriol., 1988). Based on it, I established a foreign antigen secretion system in BCG vaccine strain (Infect. Immun., 1990). This was the first report on a recombinant BCG secreting exogeneous antigen.