Masatoshi TAKEICHI, Ph. D.  

Dr. Masatoshi Takeichi is director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB; Kobe, Japan) as well as director of the Cell Adhesion and Tissue Patterning research group. He completed the B. Sc. and M. S. programs in biology at Nagoya University before receiving a doctorate in biophysics from Kyoto University in 1973. After attaining his Ph. D., Dr. Takeichi took a research fellowship at the Carnegie Institution Department of Embryology under Dr. Richard Pagano. He then returned to Kyoto University, attaining a full professorship in the Department of Biophysics (1986-1999), before becoming professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Graduate School of Biostudies at the same university. He assumed the directorship of the CDB in 2000.