Motoko Yanagita
Japan
2024 KI Best Reviewer
Kidney International® (KI) reviewers were evaluated by number of reviews completed, quality of each review as assessed by the KI Associate Editors, and length of time manuscripts were under review.
Dr. Motoko Yanagita has been the first professor and chair of the Department of Nephrology in the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, since 2011. She received her MD and Ph.D. at Kyoto University and completed residency training at Kyoto University Hospital.
Dr. Yanagita is a physician scientist conducting basic and clinical research. Her basic research area is the pathophysiology of kidney injury and repair process, and her current research focuses on the identification of cellular origin of kidney regeneration and fibrosis as well as the intracellular crosstalk during the progression of kidney disease. Her clinical research area is onconephrology, a new area connecting oncology and nephrology.
Dr. Yanagita has been the elected member of American Society of Clinical Investigation since 2013, and vice president of the Japanese Society of Nephrology. She received the 2024 ISN Bywaters Award.
The KI Best Reviewers will be recognized at WCN’25 in the ISN-KI/KIR Editorial Fellows Session: The Best of 2024/25 Articles, on Saturday, February 8, 2025, from 9:45-11:15 a.m.