Laboratory of Stem Cell Differentiation,
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),Kyoto University
1990 M.D., Kyoto University School of Medicine
1990 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital
1991 Clinical fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Red-cross Hospital, Osaka, Japan
1993 Graduate Student, Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate school of Medicine
1997 Research Fellow, Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
1998 Ph.D., Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Department of Molecular Genetics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2002 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2003 Associate Professor, Laboratory of Stem Cell Differentiation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
2008 Associate Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Institute for Integrated Cell- Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University (Additional Position)
2010 Associate Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University (Additional Position)
2012 Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
Honors and Awards
1997 Young Investigator's Award of Japan Atherosclerosis Society
1998 Young Investigator's Award of Japan Circulation Society
2000 Young Investigator's Award of Japanese Endocrine Society
Young Investigator's Award of Japanese Society of Vascular Cell Biology
Young Investigator Award of International Symposium of Atherosclerosis (finalist)
2002 Okamoto Research Award of Japan Vascular Disease Research Foundation
2009 Best Paper Award, in the category of Basic Science, Circulation, 2008
2010 Jokichi Takamine Young Investigator Award of The Socienty of Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism