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Noriyuki Tsumaki

Noriyuki Tsumaki MD, PhD

Cell and Developmental Biology
Suita, Osaka, Japan

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Noriyuki Tsumaki is currently a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, and a Professor at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan. He researches cartilage biology pathology, and regeneration using cell reprogramming technologies. He graduated from Osaka University Medical School, Japan, and joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery there in 1989. He completed his Ph.D. also at Osaka University in 1996 and soon after joined Yoshi Yamada’s laboratory at the National Institute of Dental Research, N.I.H., U.S.A., as a visiting fellow. He returned to Osaka University as an Assistant Professor in 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Bone and Cartilage Biology in 2007. He became a Professor at Kyoto University in 2011 and Osaka University in 2021.