Raj LADHER, Ph. D.  

Raj Ladher received his B. Sc. in biochemistry from Imperial College, London in 1992 and his Ph. D. in developmental biology from the National Institute for Medical Research in 1996, for his thesis on the cloning of the Xenopus homeobox gene, Xom. He worked as a research associate at King's College, London from 1996 to 2000 in the lab of Pip Francis-West, and first came to Japan during that period as a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University. In 2000, he moved to the University of Utah as a postdoctoral fellow in Gary Schoenwolf's laboratory, and was appointed team leader at the RIKEN CDB in 2002.