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| Toru Nakano received his M.D. from Osaka University Medical School in 1981. Following a three year period in which he worked as a physician, he returned to the same institution from 1984 to 1988 where he was engaged in transplantation experiments involving mast cells and hematopoietic stem cells. In 1989, Professor Nakano joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as a visiting scientist and was involved in chicken leukemogenesis. As a staff scientist he next went on to work, first as an assistant professor (1990) and then as a lecturer (1991), at the Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, on a project studying the molecular mechanisms of hematopoiesis using his unique in vitro differentiation induction method in mouse ES cells. Appointed professor at the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University in 1995, he started his study of germ cell development. In 2004, he was appointed as professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences and Medical School, Osaka University and he has been a leader of the 21st century Center of Excellence program “Center for Integrated Cell and Tissue Regulation” since 2004. His research focuses on analyzing the molecular fundamentals of hematopoietic and germ cell systems, with the final goal of this being the application of these understandings to the regulation of stem cell systems. |
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