Hiroki R. Ueda

Hiroki R. Ueda received his M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tokyo in 2000, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine in March 2004. While an undergraduate, he worked as a research assistant on a biological simulation system project at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. As a graduate student he next went on to work, first as a researcher (2000) and then as a group leader (2002), at Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals, on a project studying biological clock mechanisms in fly and mouse. He was appointed team leader of Laboratory for Systems Biology in 2003, and Leader of the Functional Genomics Unit at the CDB in 2004. He was also appointed as Professor (Invited) of Osaka University in 2006. In 2009, he was promoted project leader of the Laboratory for Systems Biology under CDB’s Center Director’s Strategic Program.