Hiroki Nishida

Hiroki Nishida completed his undergraduate work at Tohoku University, then he received his PhD from Kyoto University in 1987 for his studies on cell lineage during ascidian embryogenesis. He served as assistant professor at Kobe University in 1988 and then associate processor - head of laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991. Since 2003, he has been professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka University. Dr. Nishida’s scientific accomplishments have been recognized by several awards such as the Zoological Society Prize (2003), Osaka Science Prize (2004), Inoue Prize for Science (2005). Dr. Nishida also acts on the editorial board of a number of journals and is a section editor for Development Genes and Evolution. The main focus of his current studies is to understand mechanisms of establishment of embryonic axes and of cell fate specification during ascidian and appendicularian early embryogenesis.