Chihiro HAMA, Ph. D.  

Chihiro Hama received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from the University of Tokyo Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry and was awarded a Ph. D. from the same institution in 1985 for his work on the regulation of plasmid ColIb DNA replication by inc and repY. He spent the period from 1985 to 1988 as a post-doc in the laboratory of Thomas Kornberg at the University of California, San Francisco before returning to Japan to continue his post-doctoral work at the National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Tokyo. He advanced to section chief in the Department of Molecular Genetics in 1991, and remained at the NCNP until 2001 when he was appointed to his current position at the CDB.