Minoru S. H. Ko

Minoru Ko is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Developmental Genomics and Aging Section, Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, NIH. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. He held positions as Researcher from 1988 to 1991 and as Group Leader from 1991 to 1992 at the Furusawa MorphoGene Project, ERATO, JST, Japan. In 1992, he moved to the United States as Assistant Professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he was promoted to Associate Professor and received tenure in 1997. He has held the current position since the Fall of 1998. His laboratory has been studying mouse early embryos, embryonic stem cells, and tissue stem cells by using embryogenomics/systems biology approaches. The long-term goal of the section is to adapt stem cells to replacement/enhancement therapy for aging and dysfunctional cells and organs.