Prof. Marunaka is currently the President & Representative Director, Director of Clinic, and Director of Medical Research Institute, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, General Incorporated Foundation, Kyoto, Japan; Professor, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
He received M.D. (1979), Ph.D. (1985) from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; National License of Physician and Surgeon, Japan (1979).
He was Professor and Chairperson, Departments of Molecular Cell Physiology, Bio-Ionomics, and Respiratory Medicine, Dean for Student Affairs, and Director of Library and Center for Information & Multimedia Studies, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. He was also an Associate Professor (Principal Investigator and Laboratory Head), Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, and Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He also served as an Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and a Research Associate, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA. He was an Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan just after graduation from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and was engaged in investigation on molecular mechanisms until leaving to USA.
He was awarded “Vebleo Nanomedicine Scientist Award” (Sweden), “Marco Polo della Scienza Italiana” (Italy), The Premier's Research Excellence Award (Canada), Scholar Award
(Medical Research Council of Canada) and Research Award from National Kidney Foundation (USA).
He serves and served as the President, the Physiological Society of Japan; The President, International Society for Proton Dynamics in Cancer; The President, International Society for Cancer Metabolism; The Executive Director, The Membrane Society of Japan; Steering Committee Member, American Physiological Society (Epithelial Transport Group); Program Committee Member, American Thoracic Society; Chair of Grants and Awards Committee, International Society for Translational Medicine; Chairperson, 2019 Annual Meeting of the Membrane Society of Japan; 2013 Annual Symposium of the Membrane Society of Japan; the President, the 86th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan; President, the 3rd Meeting of International Society for Proton Dynamics in Cancer.
He serves and served as the Editor-in-Chief, the Chief Editor, Advisory Board Member, or Editorial board Member more than 30 international scientific journals.
He has obtained more than 60 research grants, published 278 peer reviewed articles in international scientific journals, and provided more than 30 invited plenary lectures at international congresses and research conferences in addition to more than 300 presentations at scientific meetings. h-index 50, i10-index 196, Citation 8304.
