Position:

Project Director for SIP (Strategic Innovation and Promotion Program) “AI Hospital Systems” assigned by the Japanese Prime Minister.

Director of Cancer Precision Medicine Research Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (Tokyo)

Occupation:

1977 May – 1981 March

Second Department of Surgery, Osaka University School of Medicine

1981 April – 1984 October

Research fellow, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University

1984 October – 1988 December

Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah

1987 September – 1989 August

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah

1989 April – 1995 March

Head of Biochemistry Department, Cancer Institute, Tokyo

1994 October – 2012 March

Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Medical Science

The University of Tokyo

1995 April – 2011 January

Director, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

1996 April – 1999 March,

Professor, Department of Clinical Genetics, Osaka University School of Medicine

2000 April-2005 March

Group leader for Genotyping, RIKEN SNP Research Center

2005 April-2010 March

Director, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine

2011 January-December

Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet

Secretary General, Office of Medical Innovation, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan

2012 April-2018 June

Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery,

Deputy Director, Center for Personalized Therapeutics, The University of Chicago

2018 April-present

Project Director for SIP (Strategic Innovation and Promotion Program) “AI Hospital Systems” assigned by the Japanese Prime Minister

2018 July-

Director of Cancer Precision Medicine Research Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (Tokyo)