Professor Akimichi Morita graduated from Nagoya City University and received his MD in 1989. He later received his Ph.D. in basic immunology from Aichi Cancer Center in Nagoya. As a Humboldt Foundation Fellow, he studied photobiology and photoimmunology at Düsseldorf University in Düsseldorf, Germany, and underwent further training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, USA. Since then, he has introduced numerous standard phototherapies to Japan. He was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 2003 and currently holds the position of Vice Director of Nagoya City University Hospital. Professor Morita’s main research interests are photobiology, phototherapy, cutaneous immunology, skin aging, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and psoriasis.

Professor Morita holds the title of President at the Japanese Society for Psoriasis Research (2022-) and is a board of directors for the International Council of Psoriasis (IPC, 2023-). He was the President of the Japanese Society for Photomedicine and Photobiology (2018-2022) and the President of the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (JSID)(2017-2020). He is an editorial board member of several prestigious medical journals and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Dermatology. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Photodermatology, Photomedicine & Photoimmunology (2018-2021) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dermatological Science(2008-2013). In addition, he has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals (H-index: 56) and has written 26 books or book chapters.