Kento Ichikawa is a physician-scientist born and raised in Japan. He has been working as a physician for 6 years and conducting research in rheumatology. He entered Yokohama City University School of Medicine in 2013, graduated in 2019, and started working as a rheumatologist. He has been conducting clinical research on rheumatoid arthritis and presenting his results through conference presentations and writing papers. in 2024, he entered the graduate school of Yokohama City University to research on autoinflammation.