Dr. Hideto Kameda graduated from School of Medicine, Keio University in 1990 and advanced to Graduate School of Keio University. He received his PhD degree from Keio University and moved to NIEHS/NIH, North Carolina, USA in 1997 as a visiting research fellow of the laboratory of molecular carcinogenesis. In 2000, he moved to Saitama Medical Center, Kawagoe, Japan, and then once returned to Keio University in 2009.

Since August 2013, Dr. Kameda has been a Professor at Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University. He has published over 150 peer reviewed articles, and his research interest is basic/translational/clinical research in rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis and lupus for molecular understanding and the development of novel therapeutic strategy for refractory diseases.

Dr. Kameda is the president of the Japan Spondyloarthritis Society, a director of the Japan Society for Clinical Immunology, an auditor of the Japanese Society of Inflammation and Regeneration, and a councilor of Japan College of Rheumatology, as well as a steering committee member of IMID Forum and an associate editor of journals including Cytokine and International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases.