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| Mitinori Saitou received his M.D. from the Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine in 1995, and went on to receive his Ph.D. in 1999 for his study of the structure and function of tight junctions under Professor Shoichiro Tsukita at the Graduate School of Medicine at the same university. He then moved to the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute as a postdoctoral research associate in Professor Azim Surani's laboratory, where his research focused on his long-term interest in the origin of the mouse germ line. Upon his appointment as a team leader at the CDB in 2003 he received a three-year grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) PRESTO program to fund the development of a single-cell microarray technology. In 2004 Dr. Saitou was appointed as a associate professor at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies. He continues to investigate the origin, properties, and regulation of the mammalian germ cell lineage, with the ultimate goal of reconstituting this immortal lineage in vitro. |
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