Yukihide Tomari PhD

Yukihide Tomari is Professor at Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo. After receiving his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2003, he joined Phillip Zamore’s laboratory at University of Massachusetts Medical School as a postdoc, where he started working on small RNAs. In 2006, he was appointed Assistant Professor, PI at The University of Tokyo, advanced to Associate Professor in 2009 and promoted to Professor in 2013. His laboratory is focused on dissecting the molecular mechanism and function of non-coding RNAs by combining biochemistry, biophysics, and cellular and developmental biology. For his scientific contributions, he has been awarded Japan Academy Medal and JSPS Prize in 2012.