ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2024
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Tetsuo Shoda, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Shoda received his MD, PhD in Japan (MD: Tokai University School of Medicine, PhD: Aichi Medical University School of Medicine) and completed his clinical training as a pediatric residency at the Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital, Japan and a pediatric allergy fellow at the National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Shoda subsequently completed postdoctoral training in Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's under the mentorship of Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD.
As a physician-scientist bridging bedside and lab bench, Dr. Shoda’s mission is to improve the lives of patients and families with severe allergies by accelerating translational research. Dr. Shoda aims to establish future precision medicine by the comprehensive, personalized characterization of genetic, molecular, and clinical features of severe allergies, including eosinophilic conditions. The extent of the clinical burden of eosinophilic diseases, such as severe eosinophilic asthma and eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases (EGID), and the complexity of their disease pathogenesis intrigue and challenge Dr. Shoda. Through translational and clinical research, Dr. Shoda identifies key genes and genetic regulatory mechanisms that predispose to eosinophilic conditions, especially EGID, with the goal of improving understanding, diagnosis, and treatment.
Dr. Shoda received the NIAID Physician-Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) and the 2021 STAT Wunderkind Award: the latter is recognition as one of the best early-career researchers in health and medicine in North America. Dr. Shoda is also supported by a Digestive Health Center: Bench-to-Bedside Research in Pediatric Digestive Disease (P30 DK078392) Pilot and Feasibility Award and a Cincinnati Children's Trustee Award. His scientific work is published in high-impact scientific journals, including Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Allergy.