Yoshiko TAKAHASHI, Ph. D.  

Yoshiko Takahashi received her B. Sc. from the University of Hiroshima, before moving to the Kyoto University Department of Biophysics where she received her master's and doctoral degrees in developmental biology. She pursued consecutive postdoctoral fellowships in developmental biology at the Institut d'Embryologie du CNRS (1988 to 1991), the University of Oregon Institute of Neuroscience (1991 to 1993) and Columbia University (1994). She returned to Japan as an associate professor at Kitasato University in 1994, where she worked until 1998, when she took an associate professorship at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School of Biological Sciences. She was appointed team leader at the RIKEN CDB in 2001.