Dr. Kosuke Kato, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. He also works in the lab of Louise Hecker, PhD, at the UA BIO5 Institute, whose research has focused on developing new, innovative therapies to treat indiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases. Dr. Kato received his doctorate in medical and pharmaceutical sciences from Kumamoto University in Japan. He performed his post-doctoral training at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, N.M., and at Temple University School of Medicine Lung Center in Philadelphia, under the mentorship of Kwang Chul Kim, PhD, a pioneer in the field of airway mucin biology, who also is now a UA Otolaryngology faculty member. Dr. Kato trained a number of research fellows and managed center projects, which resulted in several publications in peer-reviewed journals, including original research and review articles as well as a book chapter.