Hiroshi SASAKI, Ph. D.  

Hiroshi Sasaki received his b. Sc. in zoology from the University of Tokyo, and his master's and Ph. D. in developmental biology from the same institution. He worked as a research associate in Atsushi Kuroiwa's group at Tohoku University from 1990 to 1992, and in Brigid Hogan's lab at Vanderbilt University from 1992 to 1994. He returned to Japan to take a position as assistant professor at Osaka University beginning in 1995, where he remained until his appointment as team leader at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology.