| Hitoshi Niwa received his M. D. from Nara Medical University in 1989, and went on to receive his Ph.D. in medical physiology in 1993 from the Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medicine for his work in gene trap methods. From 1993 to 1994 he worked as a research associate in the Department of Developmental Genetics at the same university, before taking a postdoctoral fellowship with Austin Smith at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Genome Research. He returned to Japan in 1996 as a research associate in the Department of Nutrition and Physiological Chemistry at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, where he remained until taking his current position at the RIKEN CDB. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms involved in maintaining pluripotency, and in particular the transcription factor network governing this process. |
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