Riko Nishimura DDS, PhD

Professor Nishimura graduated from the School of Dentistry at Osaka University in 1985 and received his doctorate in dentistry from the Graduate School of Dentistry. He served as an instructor at the New York University School of Medicine, a Faculty Associate at the Department of Medicine of the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, and in 1997, he became an assistant at the School of Dentistry, Osaka University. He became a professor at the Graduate School of Dentistry in 2012, and Vice Dean of the Graduate School in 2015. His research includes intracellular signal transduction, bone and cartilage metabolism, and transcription factor controllers.