Hiroshi Asahara MD, PhD

Dr. Hiroshi Asahara is a Professor in the Department of Systems BioMedicine at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. After graduating from Okayama University Medical School, he was trained as an Orthopedic Surgeon, and his career as a researcher led him to be a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and a staff scientist at Salk Institute, under Prof. Marc Montminy.
Dr. Asahara then started his own lab as Assistant Professor at Scripps Research Institute, USA, and then became Department Head at the National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan. At Tokyo Medical and Dental University he is tasked with the responsibility to construct a new department in the Faculty of Medicine, with the mission to encode the molecular network regulating human development and regeneration by combining multiple post-genomic systems approaches. Based on a novel strategy and database, he and his lab are trying to uncover molecular mechanisms of limb development and are also identifying the critical pathway to regulate inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis.