Atsushi Iwama MD, PhD

Professor Atsushi Iwama is a graduate of the School of Medicine, Niigata University. After engaging in medical practice for five and a half years, he turned to research in basic medicine, obtaining a PhD from the School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, in 1996. He was appointed to the current post in 2005 and was appointed Director of the Center for Regenerative Therapeutics in 2015. 

Professor Iwama specializes in stem cell biology, hematology, and oncology. He is exploring the molecular mechanisms of the self-renewal and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells based on the understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expressions and is promoting research into hematopoietic neoplasms that arise from a breakdown in that mechanism. 

He has been serving as the representative for the Research on Innovative Areas "Stem Cell Aging and Diseases" since 2014, launching analysis on the physiological and pathological changes in stem cells that arise from aging.