Masahiko HIBI, M. D., Ph. D.  

Masahiko Hibi received his M. D. from Hiroshima University School of Medicine in 1988, and his Ph. D. from the Osaka University Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Karin's lab in the University of California, San Diego Department of Pharmacology, then returned to Japan to take an assistant professorship in the Division of Molecular Oncology at Osaka University Medical School. He was appointed associate professor in the same division in 1999, where he remained until he assumed his position as team leader at the RIKEN CDB.