Akiko Kishi Svensson

Project Assistant Professor,
Precision Health, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo

AkikoKishi

M.D., Ph.D, (Internal Medicine), MSc ( Public Health Nutrition)
After obtaining Japan Diabetes Society specialist license, she has been supporting clinical researchers and innovation as a project assistant professor at the Clinical Research Support Center, the University of Tokyo Hospital.

Since 2016, she has focused on metabolic syndrome, a gateway to lifestyle-related diseases, and launched the "Body projection" project to promote the personalization of health through the risk prediction and visualization of health information, and developed an app and health management system that leads to behavioral change.

Since 2018, she has her current position at the Graduate School of Engineering, and from 2021 she is CMO of the University of Tokyo venture company Medmirai, Inc.

Currently, based on her experience in home medical care and in the engineering field, she is the Principal Investigator for the unique healthy ageing cohort study which aim to predict and personalize information on healthy longevity through deep learning and multi-omics. This study is ongoing study which investigates detailed biological data and digital data obtained from wearable devices and apps from healthy Japanese who is over 80 years old.

She is also an organizing committee member for the 18th Key Symposium of the Journal of Internal Medicine and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "Longevity and healthy ageing” which took place on May 2023 in Okinawa.