Makoto Asashima
"A simplified view of the complexity of cell stemness, development and differentiation"
Position
Fellow, Director of Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Executive Director
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Emeritus Professor
Department of Life Sciences (Biology)
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
The University of Tokyo
Professional Career
- April 1972 - September 1974
- Research Associate of Institute of Molecularbiology, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
- January 1985 - March 1993
- Professor at Yokohama City University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- April 1993 - January 2003
- Professor at The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- October 2005 - September 2008
- Vice-President of Science Council of Japan
- April 2006 - Present
- Director, Organ Development Research Laboratory in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- April 2007 - March 2009
- Executive Vice President, Visiting Professor in The University of Tokyo
- April 2010 - Present
- Fellow, Director of Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Director of Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance
- October 2011 - Present
- Executive Director, Japan Society For The Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Professional
Developmental Biology, Cell Biology
- Mechanism of egg development using from experimental biology to molecular biology
- Control of Organogenesis in vitro
- Molecular biology of cell differentiation and embryonic development.
- Cloning and analysis of organ specifid genes and early embryonic development
