Noriyuki is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Miyamoto Lab and the Held Lab, and a Chief Physician of QST Hospital/Department of Charged Particle Therapy Research, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Japan. He received his MD and PhD degrees from Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, where he completed thesis work with Dr. Yoshiyuki Suzuki. As a board-certified radiation oncologist in Japan, Dr. Okonogi has experience in proton beam therapy, brachytherapy, and carbon-ion radiotherapy. His current research focuses on the development in combination of immunotherapy and carbon-ion radiotherapy and biological response of normal tissues to particle beam therapy.