Akira NAKAMURA, Ph. D.  

Akira Nakamura received both his baccalaureate and his Ph. D. from the University of Tsukuba. He spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the same institution before moving to the Department of Biology at McGill University in Montreal in 1995 to work as a post-doc under Paul Lasko. He returned to Japan in 1997 as a research associate at the University of Tsukuba. He was appointed assistant professor in the university's Gene Research Center and Institute of Biological Sciences in 2000, and began a three-year term as a PRESTO researcher in the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) in December 2001. He was appointed CDB team leader in March 2002.